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Textmade a windy noise that is noticeable but no engine sounds. It moved in a straight line at about twice/three times the speed of a passenger plane in holding pattern.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by elouina
I just tried to. Launch was at about 0100 UTC which would have been 0300 in Cape Town.
Still looks like a rocket though.
For the rocket brigade please tell me how they can hear this object all the way up in the atmosphere where a rocket would do a stage separation and how does a rocket stage tumble in a holding pattern?
Originally posted by UltraMarine
reply to post by VreemdeVlieendeVoorwep
Your Link is not Convincing , Can you give us another ?
Cylinder shaped “cloud”. It had a light in the “cockpit”. It made a windy noise that is noticeable but no engine sounds. It moved in a straight line at about twice/three times the speed of a passenger plane in holding pattern. It was seen by two friends in Rondebosch, two family members in Brancenfell and a group of people in Paarl.
Smokey light with a “bubble” moving. Bright light.
Clear sky. Conical shape with bright forward light and bright star shaped light at rear in a cloud like mist. Heading from south over Camps Bay towards Table Mountain where dissipated. There were 8 of us watching and no one has seen anything like this in our skies before
We live out towards the Bottelary Hills area and this evening (11/12/2012) at around 20:40, saw a weird sight. It looked like a cloud moving and was lighted up. It turned and then suddenly stopped and started to vanish. There was an aircraft a couple of kilometers from this object and one could clearly see the aircraft and this object did not look like another aircraft. The skies were unusually clear this evening with no clouds or fog. Did anyone else see this? I am a pilot myself and know what aircraft look like
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by elouina
You are right and it was not the North Korean rocket but the X-37B. (see above)
Originally posted by UltraMarine
Here are some Witness Reports :
Cylinder shaped “cloud”. It had a light in the “cockpit”. It made a windy noise that is noticeable but no engine sounds. It moved in a straight line at about twice/three times the speed of a passenger plane in holding pattern.
Smokey light with a “bubble” moving. Bright light.
Clear sky. Conical shape with bright forward light and bright star shaped light at rear in a cloud like mist. Heading from south over Camps Bay towards Table Mountain where dissipated. There were 8 of us watching and no one has seen anything like this in our skies before
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edit on 13-12-2012 by UltraMarine because: (no reason given)
Text It moved in a straight line at about twice/three times the speed of a passenger plane in holding pattern.