From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V3 #53 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Monday, 7 June 1993 Volume 03 : Number 053 In this issue: light in sky Re: light in sky Re: light in sky Re: light in sky See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Zel Eaton <@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU:AD04@NEMOMUS> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 93 19:55:34 EDT Subject: light in sky Since there hasn't been much skunk talk the last few days I thought I would post this item from the General Aviation News and Flyer Magazine second May issue.. Odds and Ends col. noted the following sighting Strange light still a mystery. At least five Sitka people saw a st strange blue-green ball of light streaking across the sky just after 3 am recently. Officer Ed Green of the Alaska Pulp Corporation's security force was talking with guard Arnie Pederson and foreman Richard Lawson when it was sighted. "It was about 2,500 feet off the deck," There wasn't a sound. . . called the FAA to determine if there had been any flights in the area and found there had been none . . . "No noise, no jet, rotor or propeller sound-nothing" . . . it (the light) trailed purplish vapor as it approached . . . quoted without permission ------------------------------ From: Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB Date: Sun, 6 Jun 93 21:26:32 EDT Subject: Re: light in sky Gee, sounds like the fire ball I saw a couple years ago. That was the biggest/brightest meteor I've ever seen. I was at the Yorktown battle field doing some star and planet gazing with some friends, when we saw it near the northwestern horizon going east to west. It looked like it was close to the ground. It was apparently higher and farther away than we thought. It made the newspapers and even national news the next day. People all over the east coast say it. I think even people as far as Ohio saw it. Brent L. Bates Phone:(804) 864-2854 M.S. 361 FAX:(804) 864-8469 NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or B.L.BATES@larc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ From: Lee Levine Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 19:08:56 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: light in sky Could it have been ball lightning? Lee Levine aka taliesin@pc2.pc.maricopa.edu An it harms none, do what thou will. --Wiccan Credo Born again? Hah! MY Goddess got it right the first time! On Sun, 6 Jun 1993, Zel Eaton wrote: > Since there hasn't been much skunk talk the last few days I thought > I would post this item from the General Aviation News and Flyer > Magazine second May issue.. > > Odds and Ends col. noted the following sighting > Strange light still a mystery. At least five Sitka people saw a st > strange blue-green ball of light streaking across the sky just after > 3 am recently. Officer Ed Green of the Alaska Pulp Corporation's > > security force was talking with guard Arnie Pederson and foreman Richard > Lawson when it was sighted. "It was about 2,500 feet off the deck," > There wasn't a sound. . . called the FAA to determine if there had > been any flights in the area and found there had been none . . . > "No noise, no jet, rotor or propeller sound-nothing" . . . it > (the light) trailed purplish vapor as it approached . . . > > quoted without permission ------------------------------ From: Lee Levine Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 19:16:12 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: light in sky I wish I would see some of these things! All I ever saw was a wide laser beam going across the night sky in Phoenix. I think it was powered by the local nuke plant. Lee Levine aka taliesin@pc2.pc.maricopa.edu An it harms none, do what thou will. --Wiccan Credo Born again? Hah! MY Goddess got it right the first time! ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V3 #53 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@ecn.purdue.edu". 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