About an hour ago I put two slices of fruit loaf in the toaster for supper and made a cup of coffee. I went outside to put a couple things in the deck fridge and took a little walk to empty the bladder in the garden.
As I happily peed away my eyes scanned the evening sky. A star, more yellow than the others in the north east sky seemed to be moving. I watched it closely, and it moved not in a continuous direction but back and forward and up and down, not much but perceptibly to me with my glasses on. I went in and called Gord who took a minute or two to come out. During this time the star went out, that is, its light faded and disappeared, but after I told Gord about it it came back on. He said yes he could see it moving, and with eyes better than mine he said it was changing colour too.
We watched for a few minutes, it continued it's erratic small movements which we could discern from the tree branches close to the line of vision, and its light faded and came back or varied in its hue and configuration, if that's an appropriate word for it.
So I went and got the binos, the powerful ones that Boongus left here, and I had a good look at it before passing the binos to Gord. With the binos, and Gord concurred with all that I'm about to write when we described what we saw to each other, it looked about the size of the moon would to a naked eye. It was spherical and seemed to have many tiny lights on its surface which came on and off in different colours and in different parts of the sphere which gave the thing an overall different shade as the lights moved around and ranged through yellow, white, blue and red.
Weird. I have no idea what it was. Could it be a satellite with a shiny surface reflecting light from all over space? But would a satellite move like that? I have never believed there are aliens from outer space visiting Earth, but this thing did look like a spaceship of sorts. I'll go with satellite, but I'm very curious now. I'm going out now before I go to bed to see if it's still there.
When I went out just now there was cloud cover and no stars visible.
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No satellite that one - especially appearing the size of the moon. And I can't imagine the RAAF coming up with anything as fancy as that. How extraordinary Carey. Maybe they have you in their sights and are hoping for some quality prunings!
I have thought constantly about this since. Let there be no doubt, I saw what I saw through the binos. When I say moon size, yes, but I have no way of confirming the size as there was nothing to measure against in the bino lens, or how far away it was. It was distant. Gord concurs in every way. Spaceship? Satellite? I thought satellite, because that was more logical, but the more I think about it, I say spaceship or at least UFO. My mind is opened up and I will never see the world quite the same again. And those who know me well will know that I'm not prone to bullshit or illusion.
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