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Must not have been 9:30 then?
@chris72b9: Yeah.. that's not a picture taken an hour after sunset. Hence my questions, which you didn't really answer.
Must not have been 9:30 then?
Originally Posted by Mugen_KK
Leave him alone, he doesn't have those fancy ass digital clocks. Jesus, R.
It just seems like his argument against it being a reflection off of a particularly shiny airplane hinges on the idea that there wasn't enough sunlight.. but then he's also trying to argue there was enough light to see an object in the sky go off into the distance.
It sounds like he's describing exactly what happens around the time of sunset. Bright sunlight shines at an angle that causes all kinds of objects to glow brightly.. but because the sun is continuing to go down, and/or that object could be moving, turning, etc., the "light" can easily go out.. as the objects reflective surface could easily almost instantly suddenly be out of view of the person watching the object. Either by way of sundown, object movement, or object turning.
Anyone who has ever watched a sunset knows that a 2-3 minute time period can have a dramatic affect on the amount of light illuminating objects. (sorry I didn't quite understand your 1 hour statement @chris72b9)
Also, PA is a big State.. perhaps Chris lives on the other side of the state, where sunset is closer to 9pm. For an object in the sky like that, the sun might be "setting" for that object closer to 9:30. Angles and all that.
I think there's only one thing left for Chris to do, stare at the sky for the next week with camera in hand to prove everyone wrong. Do it.
I know. I said: "Look at this picture, and imagine less light, and a bit less clouds". That picture was used to showcase the cloud type, cloud altitude, and the color difference between the clouds and the sky itself (dark grey clouds, vs. light grey sky).
Around 9:15 earlier tonight I took a picture of the sky, because similar clouds were in the sky, and it looked nearly the same as it did yesterday. Judging by the amount of light in this picture (@9:15), I would have to guess the time I saw this thing yesterday was likely between 9:20-9:30 (my bad it's blurry... I didn't use my tripod):
Spoiler:
I know what you're talking about, and I've seen hundreds of planes reflecting sunlight at dusk and dawn in my life. This was not a reflection. Simply stated; it was an artificially illuminated object.
I've also never seen a plane on this heading, ever. The entire time I've lived here... not once. And I've only ever seen one plane flying low altitude around here. It was one day during the summer last year, and it was in the opposite direction.... it was a small, single engine prop plane. This was too low to be a commercial jet, it hovered, turned around, and went back nearly the same path it came (which was NNE.... I misspoke in post #48 and said "it went over the horizon to the NNW and disappeared").
A much better argument to be had is whether or not it was a helicopter. Because this was not a plane. Simple as that.
Last edited by chris72b9; 06-07-2012 at 05:05 AM.
In regards to me looking at the sky for an hour...
I saw the object around 9:20-9:30 yesterday, and it lasted for maybe two to three minutes. I soon after began typing up this thread, but kept getting distracted because I couldn't stop looking at the sky, after the object was gone. I wanted to see if it was going to come back, or if there might be an indicator as to what it was.
hey yo chris
Last edited by Kinectamaniac; 06-07-2012 at 07:38 AM.
I tried so hard to hold back my laughter.
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