What did I see on 4/6/04 at approx 21:00?

"Beemer" wrote in message
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In article , platinum198
@pants.btinternet.com says...



This does indeed sound like a balloon, and it is very difficult to judge
the
height or size of balloons. The circling object could have been some
sort
of "payload" attached by a thin string that you couldn't see. Could be
anything from a kid's escaped balloon to a weather balloon, or one of
those
advertising balloons that broke its moorings.


Mike,

I've done a rough calculation on my timing. If it took 30 seconds for
my wife to return with the binos and I thought it had travelled 2 miles
that says it was travelling at around 240mph.

Beemer

Unless it was smaller than you thought and closer. The fact that it looked
deep black suggests it was pretty close; see, for example, the Condon UFO
report where one of the cases was investigated using the shading of the
object. Something further away would have looked grey.

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Mike Dworetsky

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