[AZ-Observing] Re: West Phoenix Tonight
- From: PHXJeff@xxxxxxx
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:06:40 EST
Dwight L Bogan replied:
>Hey guys I spent five years in the airforce working on fighter jets F4's
>and F15's they can do seeming strange things at night and they can move
>really fast a whole lot faster than a commercial airplane. Yes, the AirForce
>thunderbirds are at Luke this weekend and you may have seen a late evening
>demo from them. I saw what look like fireworks from the general direction
>when I was out driving last night at about the time mentioned. Several
>nights
>ago there was some flare activity down at Gila Bend and it was the airforce
>playing around, Not Space aliens as got reported on the news again!
Thanks to all who responded to my post. I had not realized that Luke was
having an Air Show this weekend. Most certainly what I saw was connected
to that.
I have been observing for several decades and have seen my share of
fireballs and my first impression was that was what I was seeing. In
fact, I was all set to hop in my car and go look for pieces as it
appeared to hit south of Sun City. But then it zoomed almost straight up
so obviously it was not a meteor. While it was probably a jet with some
kind of device to leave a fiery trail (BIG fiery trail) it certainly
seemed to move a lot faster than jets I have seen.
I plan to go to Luke today and well ask around. It sure livened up my
observing last night.
Jeff
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