I saw a UFO over Las Vegas tonight [PICS]
 

A bright light moving overhead on a straight path for about three minutes. Looked like a bright star. I figured it was too high to be a plane and too slow to be a satellite.

So I looked it up here and the mystery was solved.

No longer unidentified, my now IFO turned out to be this. Cool as hell. My first time ever seeing it, even though it passes over pretty much daily. The lighting and clear atmosphere were just right to make it quite bright even with all the neon in Vegas. :thumbsup

http://helios.augustana.edu/astronom...-iss-sts98.jpg

aka the ISS or International Space Station

Here's the ground track, it passed almost right over us.

http://tinyurl.com/h6hl4

Now all I need to do is come up with 20 million and I can be looking down at millions of people looking up at me thinking I'm a UFO. :winkwink:

the space station kicks fucking ass.....

Badass...I'll have to look for it next time I'm in vegas

that's so cool

fuckin awesome :drinkup :drinkup

good shit :thumbsup

Darn. I was expecting to see crazy aliens playing poker

whis is damn cool!

thats pretty cool bro! :thumbsup

nice pix

cool man.. you should have made pics :)

thats very cool.

Sweet shit man!

wow nice pics there!

i've talked to the old space station , the russian one , MIR
using 2meters on ham radio , talked to andy thomas
also talked to MIR via packet radio

i think ISS is still doing it , not to sure , but they do take pics of earth as they fly over head and send it down to ham radio operators via slow scan tv

Nah, that was really me talking to you, I was just fucking around. :winkwink: sorry.
























:1orglaugh j/k

bump for you , cool shit.

Nice, did you take some pictures to your IFO?

awesome.. yeah I think they are still doing that, I have just never got around to getting my amateur license.

...Thanks for the comments. Any pics I took would have come out as a white blur. I am planning to get a camera mount on a telescope so that will produce some good shots hopefully.

The next good pass will be on July 4. (You just enter in your lat/long on http://heavens-above.com and it tells you what to look for where and when etc) I have a feeling that July 4 won't be the best night to be looking for lights in the sky though. :)

nice..:)

very cool

I'm a fan of JPass:
http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JPass/20/

I've seen the shuttle before docking and after disembarking the space station. First the space station flew over, then a couple minutes later we saw the shuttle.

If the shuttle launches July 1 I won't see it here at home (Los Angeles) - but maybe I'll get to see it when I'm out of the country.

Gravity Probe B makes frequent flyovers...but is not nearly as bright as the space station.

Mike B

That is so cool! I didn't even know you could do that.

nice ss dude

Thats cool..

Mr. Romance

Awesome!!

That's bad ass.

i hallucinate in vegas all the time. damn mushrooms in the bellagio salad bar.

Did you use a telescope from LA to see that? I would figure the LA skies are even worse than Vegas as regards viewing with the naked eye anyhow.

...Yup I'll be looking for the shuttle on July 1, I think the docking is July 3. I gotta make it to a launch one of these days. Vandenburg has them about every other month I believe, for various satellites. :thumbsup

hopefully real time sat image... keyhole.com is google's sat online real-time eyehole to the world.

that's NICE!!!!:thumbsup

bet it was a sight.

Wow that thing is moving fast. Looks like it takes 5 minutes to get across the USA.

I have seen that thing so many times. Sometimes it looks huge.

Nope - naked eye. But basically it just looks like a very bright star.

Regards,

Mike B

lol :1orglaugh

Watching ISS is fun, but nothing compared to watching Iridium flares!

You can get the complete skinny on when ISS, or Iridium satellites can be found at Heavens Above! :thumbsup

The men in black have done their job again. Once more the world is safe from the chaos which would result if it knew about our alien masters.
http://pissyourself.com/smilies/qqb025.gif

Truth is out there........

Cool! Can I mown one? :pimp

really? I've never heard of that site..what's it about? :)

not so unidentified but sure is cool to see something like that. thanks!

sorry I hate when it sticks

very cool pic

great pic! Lucky you are to see it!