Anal probe club
January 20, 2010
There is some seriously trippy stuff going on near Niagara Falls it seems. I’m not one to believe in UFOs, but I still have uncomfortable feelings about the light I see every night that doesn’t correspond with how stars or planets “travel” the night sky. The light itself is unblinking, although it will sometimes flare and grow extremely bright. As well, it moves. It either sways, moves up and down small amounts, or from side to side. It doesn’t cover long distances when it moves, but when it does move, it’s clearly discernable.
A few things:
a) I told my father (a renowned astronomy nerd) about this, and he thinks it must be Jupiter, and that my eyes are playing tricks on me because of the two moons (two or three?) that Jupiter has. This is apparently a prime year for Jupiter sightings, and he thinks it would appear fairly low on the horizon in about the same part of the sky where I’m seeing mystery light.
b) I saw the same phenomenon in BC, only the movement was much more noticeable and quicker. As well, in BC, there was more than one moving light at the same altitude that I was able to observe over the span of two hours. One light would move around in small gestures, and the other got closer and closer to it. When they were about a hands-breadth (if I hold my hand up and…) away, there was a lot of movement between the two, and one light dissappeared.
c) I would like to think that I’m not crazy, but every night I see it I try to discern if it has a definite path that it follows in the sky. So far, if I check on it at the same time on two nights in a row, the locations I will find it at are not remotely related in a logical sense.
d) while I don’t have the steadiest hands on the planet, when one looks at stars say, through a binocular, there is a certain visual impression made by them. When I look at the notorious light, all I see is spinning crap. It boggles my mind that I can look at a star and think, “yep, that’s a star all right,” and look at the other thing, and not be able to make sense of what I’m seeing at all. You’d think that if it was a planet, it would be even easier to make sense of, visually magnified (however small), than a star.
I really need to borrow a telescope and get to the bottom of the Intergalactic Stalker.
It’s clearly a satellite in a poorly calculated geostationary orbit (so that it appears to move slightly, instead of appearing not to move at all). I know this because I am clearly not an expert on these things.
Apparently, your blog doesn’t like the strikeout tag, and my previous comment isn’t as funny, as a result.
It’s still pretty funny. My dad actually had mentioned that there is a new prototype of satellite that has larger than standard “wings” to capture light for solar energy of sorts. The logic was that this could be less, but there is still no “hurtling” in the object, so no satellite action