For a gal whose dad TAUGHT photography, I learned so little about it. Those are great shots, though.
Heading to Alabama tonight. Probably be able to get a better look since it's so much darker there. We went outside last night to look for it with binoculars, but there was too much cloud cover.
We did see something fairly odd. There were 2 items in the sky with blinking lights--could definitely tell they were lights and not stars so one would assume they're airplanes--and we live relatively close to the airport. They weren't in the same location, one was more SW and the other was NNE, both at 75 - 80 degrees up in the sky. They didn't move the whole time we were out there, 15 minutes or so. There were plenty of airplanes that were moving, so I don't think it was an optical illusion. Anyone have any idea what was going on?
I have a possible explanation based on what happened to me. (What color or colors were the blinking lights?)
About 30 years ago, I was looking out my upstairs window that faces the west. It was a sunny summer Saturday afternoon with no clouds in the blue sky.I saw a silver object in the sky. It did not appear to move. I pulled out my binoculars. After about 5 or 10 minutes of watching it, I realized that it was getting closer. After another few minutes, I could see some projections from the silver object. A few minutes later, I realized that they were wings. I had spotted an silver colored airliner at high altitude that was probably 50 or 60 miles away and had the sun glinting off of it in my direction. It went past me and I could see a contrail from my back yard. It continued to the east, as it wasn't stopping in Milwaukee. Maybe it was going to Detroit?
I think that you had the same thing happen to you at night. It is harder to judge distances and relative motion then. It is easier to see a light in a dark sky.
Usually when I see an airplane, it is over me in 5 minutes or less. My vision was also better 30 years ago. I was 20/200 the last time I had a vision test. It is time again and probably worse. (I am glad that I didn't report a silver ball that seemed to hang in the sky, which is a frequent UFO sighting.) BTW, I grew up 10 miles from Wright-Paterson AFB, so I am used to seeing and hearing airplanes of all kinds. I have seen F-104s, C-5As, B-52s and one SR-71. The last one was in Milwaukee because it lost an engine and had to land some where.
