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Old 28-07-2009, 07:58 AM
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Re: Weather Balloons?

We had a good view of a string of five flying lanterns on Sunday night at 10.30 ish. They do look very interesting at first and I tried unsuccessfully to photograph them. They were below cloud level, a nice orange colour and moved slowly across the sky until they all went out, presumably due to whatever fuels them ran out.

I wonder if your sighting Amoeba was a satellite reflecting the sun on it's solar panels. I've seen them do this quite often but they don't weave about.

It's like watching a bright pulsating star.

Hope you got the job!
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