Archive for July 31st, 2012
July 31st, 2012 | 
Author: It’s the season for “floating orange lights” across Canada. Most of the reports we get during the summer are of lights meandering or otherwise moving across the night sky. (See: 2011 Canadian UFO Survey)
Here’s a typical report, a sighting of objects seen about 11:30 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012, over Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:
I just went for a walk and noticed some odd things in the sky… I saw what everyone is describing, an orange light floating in the sky, then a yellow one too, then they were gone – maybe burnt out, but I didn’t see them “fly away”, just disappeared. It was so odd. Made no noise either and were both very low to the ground – not super low, but definitely not airplane high.
This is about average as far as UFO reports go. Not a lot of detail, but enough that you get the general idea.
But I also get these kind of notes, this one from Facebook:
Incidentally, did you get a spike in UFO reports Sat night? I launched 4 of these by the floodway, and I’m pretty sure they got as far as the perimeter. http://www.redbomb.com/products/product.php?sku=8200S
I’ve also heard that others are doing the same in other parts of Canada.
So, don’t get too excited about UFO reports of “floating orange lights.”
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Is it a metallic craft, or could it be a balloon? You decide. -SW
by alanalan77
[Best to be watched in full screen mode] Monday morning, in bright daylight, 9.00 am, 23 July 2012, this object was filmed above the City Center of Vienna. The quality of my mobile phone (Samsung Galaxy SIII) was not appropriate enough to zoom further in, but with the eye it could be seen as a rotating and at some points very very bright object (i guess due to strong reflection of sunlight). I had the impression it was chrome like metallic, but this could be too much judgement here. It was not emitting light, it seemed to be reflecting it. It seemed to have a high altitude. Rotating across several axis. Nothing below a a couple of hundred meters. More in the region of low flying passenger planes.
The object moved relatively slowly (south-east), at the start of the observation, then at 01.01 minutes (of the video) it shifts its direction rapidly (!!!!!) and then continued flying at this point in a rather more constant speed in a straight line south. You can nicely see it compared to the balcony of the building in the video. The more i watch that move to the side on video, the more it freaks me out. I could see it with my eye, the move was very sudden and swift, and rather not common to what i would expect from an object I know.
I continued to watch it with my eye walking down the street in southern direction. I could follow it for at least 5 more minutes.
I could not hear any sound. It was very surely no plane. No helicopter noise. It was not a balloon or kite. It was rotating, around several axis. If it was a satellite crashing, it would not have made a turn at 1.01 minutes of the video and gone south-west… satellites crash rather with speeds in the range of several thousand km.
Whatever it was…i am not sure…but it had me at “owkayyy”. What was striking me the most, it was very very bright at points, so it must have a strong reflecting side and the rest must be also reflecting but not as strong, as it was always was visible but at some points very very much. I could see people on the street looking at it too and seeing it… You can actually see right at the start of the video, that when the camera is not in focus, that the object was pretty bright, when i started filming. It was really a bright blue sky with a lot of sun, and the object was extremely bright at some points.
Maybe this footage can be used to be analyzed some more.
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The entry, descent and landing of the Mars Science Laboratory requires autonomous steering, a supersonic braking parachute and an innovative “sky crane” technique to lower the nuclear-powered rover to the surface of the red planet.
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In earlier ventures to Mars, spacecraft have either bounced to the surface cocooned in giant airbags or made the trip atop a rocket-powered descent stage. But neither approach was an option for NASA’s Curiosity rover, the centerpiece of the .5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Tipping the scales at one ton, the nuclear-powered Curiosity, a rolling laboratory equipped with a suite of state-of-the-art cameras and instruments, is too massive to use airbags like the ones that cushioned the landings of NASA’s much smaller Pathfinder and the hugely successful Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
While a legged lander could do the trick, powerful braking rockets would be needed to get Curiosity to the surface. The sheer size of the descent stage would result in a daunting engineering challenge: get a bulky rover safely down to the surface from a perch many feet above the ground atop its lander.
“This rover is 900 kilograms, it is a beast, it is the size of a car,” said Steve Sell, an entry, descent and landing engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “So you’re trying to land something very heavy, so that means you need sizable engines.”
More powerful rocket engines could kick up billowing clouds of dusty debris as the lander approached touchdown “so you tend to want to keep the engines farther away from the surface,” Sell said.
“That makes you want to have longer legs, and having longer legs means your center of gravity is higher and then it’s much easier to tip over,” he said. “Or you need to be very wide. It tends to drive you [to a] larger and larger [lander] in order to do that and be stable.”
Then there is the little matter of getting the rover down to the surface after landing.
“Let’s say you solved all that and were able to land and you now had to drive a one-ton rover off the top of a platform, either down ramps or some other kind of mechanism,” Sell said. “If you were oriented in a way that maybe wasn’t favorable to your wheels, like you were tilted to your side, you could slide sideways off the ramps. Maybe there are rocks where the bottoms of the ramps would normally touch and you can’t deploy the ramp in the first place.”
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