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Expert: - 7/18/2010


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unidentified objects
Hi Steve
Its been a while since my last question but you might remember me, i’m the person who said he saw two ufo and wondered if the objects might be related to earth flare activity. In my last question you said that I could send sketches, so I’ve sketched both the objects. The green object you considered here: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Physics-1358/2009/3/ufo.htm  
I only gave a brief account of the green object, so I will have to give a fuller discription to go with this sketch. The colour of the object was emerald green with a blue edge, but there were also some tones of yellow that mixed over its surface and for a brief moment the whole object washed out pale. When I say “washed out” i use this for want of a better description, because it had the same appearance as the suns disc, which is yellow but washes out white at mid-day. This object was green, but it temporarily washed out pale, also as it was directly over head. The object eventually became engulfed in the low cloud base before sheet lightning spread from the location - followed by a deep rumble of thunder.  

The second, red object had beams. It was smaller than the green object, but was very close to me. You considered it here: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Astrophysics-3368/2010/4/confused.htm

In a previous question I suggested that similar objects may have been documented, and I thought this event, wrongly attributed to a supernova in 1054 might have been an example. Quote: “Chinese astronomers described the star as having “pointed rays in all four directions” ... http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/star/pulsar/1996/22/background

I first caught sight of the beamed object as it floated over a flat factory roof, which was situated slightly lower from where I was observing.  The object then dropped from over the factory roof in a steady arc before levelling just above the ground and travelling huge distance across the fields pre-lifting before objects in its path. This pre-lifting gave the object the appearance of anticipating the objects in its path, giving it the appearance of being intelligently guided. I’m not sure this was the case, however. I’m more of the opinion that the object was not structured, and the fact that it dropped was due to it being heavier than the air, while the fact it levitated above the ground and pre-lifted before the objects in its path might have been due to another force. My question is: If you consider the object as i have described it.

1.   Can you see how the earth’s electric or magnetic field might float or repelle an object like i have described?

2.   Can you see how the earths electric or magnetic field might also pre-lift the object over things that are attached to the ground in its path?

3.   And lastly, would this understanding tie in with the jets/beams, i described ?


I’ve mentioned I believe these objects might be connected to earthflare activity, causing earthquakes and/or skyquakes. I would like to give one example I’m considering.  This event took place in my neighbouring country in 1974. As you will see, the people of “Berwyn” were very puzzled by the events. This documentary is worth watching for 20 mins in my opinion, before it goes off on a tangent...
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/5593/BBC__Britain_s_Closest_UFO_Encounte...

Many thanks
David

Answer
It's entirely possible for Earthquakes to produce odd lights in the sky and very odd effects.  At such a weak Earthquake, it must been the first one in a very long time to have done such a thing.  It could have coincided with the meteor shower to create a locally disturbed area of odd lightning types and relatively ionized atmosphere up in the mountains (though they're not that tall).  Possibly mirages (layers of air of different temperatures and densities)conducting light from town or elsewhere into the sky...it's really kind of impossible to say given that we don't have enough scientific evidence (the sketches are nice, but they're not photographs) to identify the type of phenomena happening.  We have something similar just south of us here, the Marfa lights.  They were finally identified to be correlated with automobile headlights.  With the Earthquake, you may have had a sudden and unrepeated shift in atmospheric conditions causing a kaleidescope of fuzzy-to-sharp balls of light appear all over, in a variety of colors.  That's pretty much the best I can think of.

Steve Nelson

Expertise

Fusion, solar flares, cosmic rays, radiation in space, and stellar physics questions. Generally, nuclear-related astrophysics, but I can usually point you in the right direction if it's not nuclear-related or if it's nuclear but not astrophysics.

Experience

Currently a physics professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Doctoral dissertation was on a reaction in CNO-cycle fusion, worked in gamma-ray astronomy in the space science division of the naval research laboratory in the high-energy space environment branch.

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Physics professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

Education/Credentials
Ph.D. in physics, research was on nuclear fusion reactions important in stellar fusion.

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