UFOs Scheduled to fly above BRC

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UFOs Scheduled to fly above BRC

Post by Ugly Dougly » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:55 am

http://www.heavens-above.com/

Here's what you do. Shortly before you leave for the desert, look up the vicinity of Reno, NV. You'll get a schedule of sattelite transits for various times.

Now, armed with that, run out at night at the right time and point to the appropriate area of the sky from which the satellite is scheduled to arrive, and scream: "LOOK! A flying saucer! Run for your lives!"

Anyway.

Enjoy the show.

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Post by phil » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:04 am

and scream: "LOOK! A flying saucer! Run for your lives!"
:-> Enough people will believe it to make it well worthwhile.

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Post by trilobyte » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:59 pm

That might work if we all were carrying telescopes (or at least binoculars). Even the International Space Station isn't what I'd call 'readily visible' to the naked/untrained eye.

For what it's worth, though, the IKONOS satellite is scheduled to make a flyby and snap a pic Thursday, 31-Aug-2006 11:48am (according to this thread).

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Post by unjonharley » Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:51 pm

I swear the next moonless BM I'm puting one up. I could make one. Just need about ten people to help get it up and down fast. Maybe another ten runing around screaming the world is ending.
I'm the contraptioneer your mother warned you about.

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Post by Ugly Dougly » Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:56 pm

Once in my younger days I was out in the wilds and we saw such a traveling star. I thought that maybe it was a satellite but I wasn't too sure, and you know I didn't want to be that sure. Plenty are visible without intruments. I don't know what the threshold will be on the playa...

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Post by Zulegoona » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:52 pm

Keep your eyes open for
KAMP APOKILIPTIKA’s
.......DoomStar...........
We will be in synchronous orbit relaying communications, telemetry, and doing target acquisition and tracking for ground forces.

Keep an eye out for us we’ll be watching you,.....

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