"Stuart Grey" wrote in message ...
Brian wrote:
I'm in southern California, and haven't seen any stars in the night sky
since 1990. I bet they're pretty... :-)


I'm sorry that you have to live in Southern California. I hope you make your escape soon. Southern California is no place for a
person to be.


Well the skies up here in northern WI are clear on a clear night... awesome,
spectacle when looking straight up at em, certainly puts a grown mans ego
in it's proper place on earth.

While it was 15 years ago that I sat out star gazing one night with a telescope
which my grandparents generously offered as the best ever Christmas present,
age 11-12 (77-78).

I recall one of my star gazing nights in 1990 September if memory recollect,
in the early hours *what appeared* to be a flying saucer thingy showed up,
past right over my head that's no lie, if you were their in the front yard that night
using your naked eye amongst this starlight night and crescent moon shape,
you would clearly make out this thing, call it an object having an unfamiliar shape
for a known aircraft, this dish which glowed from the bottom that allow identification
of the top hub portion as it traveled at a skewed angle within my line of sight.
This luminescent glow that might best be described synchrotron radiation only way
that I can now describe this effect which was directed from the underneath which
picked-up at the top, to make visible this hub portion within several hundred
feet above just slightly distant.

Sleep on it, or go watch the stars whichever come first. It really is a wonderous
universe more so then any sci-fi we could ever dream to imagine . G

John