On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:16:52 +0100, Eeyore
wrote:

The aftermath of the last Muslim-inspired bombing of the London Underground was
well visually documented by photos taken by travelelrs with their mobile
phones...

Here's a new phenomenon. UFOs !

" A crowd of 100 stunned stargazers brought a town centre to a standstill when
five mysterious UFOs were spotted hovering in the sky.

Drinkers spilled out of pubs, motorists stopped to gawp and camera phones were
aimed upwards as the five orbs, in a seeming formation, hovered above
Stratford-Upon-Avon for half an hour. "

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770



Graham

I wonder if this is some satellite thingy - NASA have recently (last
month or so) been playing with docking and un-docking some satellites
to test for manouverability of robot spacecraft:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...htm?list186590

and of course this is just what they can tell us about - who knows
what secret/military/chinese things are going on. The whole episode of
them flying in formation and a fifth closing and slowing into the
formation sounds like it fits... I wonder how "hovering" they were as
satellites (at least the ones generally visible as naked-eye objects)
move very rapidly. It does mention that they passed off beyond the
horizon, which again fits sateelite observations - at least for those
that don't "wink out"

It does mention " a few minutes" and "half an hour" which, if
true/accurate might tend to rule out satellites as anything close
enough to be a NEO tends to have to move very quickly to stay up
there. there must be better informed minds than mine can comment on
this - anyone?

'tis interesting tho'