From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 17:32:48 MST
Alex writes
> Here is a question for those of you with better maths than me.
> Between about 2:50 gmt and 3:05 today I was locked out of my house
> and standing on my front step. I noticed in the western sky at
> about 5 degrees or so from the horizon, there was what looked
> like a wide, short con trail pointing virtually straight down
> and slightly left. It kind of resembled the shape of a comet
> trail but was very short and squat. The length was only about
> 5 time the width with a blunt pointed bottom and a more pointed
> top. It was slightly brighter than the clouds.
> It didn't move like the clouds so I could see that if was a long
> way off and at high altitude. It did move slightly to the left
> over a period of 10 mins while I watched it. My initial thought
> was that it was a meteor trail or a near earth brush through the
> upper atmosphere. After watching it I concluded it must simple
> be a very strange cloud.
> Now having just seen the news and read the posts about the shuttle,
> I'm thinking maybe that is what I saw. But here is the stumper,
> I'm in the UK!
So far as I can see, the only points above Texas that are visible
from the UK are at a height of about 3000 miles. So that rules
out the Shuttle.
> If the maths say it not possible then, what a weird coincidence.
Maybe, but if the Iraqis are right, and Allah has demonstrated His
displeasure with the U.S., then you may have witnessed an ancillary
Divine indicator.
Lee
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