Green Lights In The Sky

My wife and I headed out, last night, to go take a look at the night sky. A night or two earlier, (Tuesday or Wednesday) our daughter told us that she saw something in the sky. We figured we would go out and stargaze for a while on the off-chance that we may get to see something interesting.

Well, we headed out for about an hour, or so… driving north of town to get away from the light pollution. About two blocks away from our house, we had actually saw a green light flying across the sky. When we spotted it, it was almost directly to the west of us, moving at a pretty high speed toward the north, in what looked like a straight line. It seemed to get lower in altitude, and we ended up losing sight of it, by the time it got into the northeast part of the sky.

It looked like a solid green light with no “tail”. There was no good way for us to judge the actual distance, except that there were clouds in the sky and it seemed like we were able to see it clearly. It did not look like it was beyond the clouds, since the intensity of the light seemed consistent. As far as the distance of the clouds, though, it was hard to tell.

We did not get any kind of pictures or video of it. We were not expecting to see something that soon into our short outing, and the urge for me to drive as fast as I could to the north outweighed the thought of actually grabbing either of the two cameras that we had with us.

Of course, today, I did a few Google searches for what we might have seen, and realized that we may have seen something similar to what others (including our daughter) had seen on Tuesday. In that case (and likely this one) it was most likely a meteor. I also looked for videos that might be similar to what we saw, but after looking at a bunch of them, none of the videos that I saw online resembled what we saw.

Next time, we’ll have the cameras ready.

Stargazing or UFO Hunting

We’re going out, tonight, to the middle of nowhere to look at stars. Actually, we’re hoping to catch a glimpse of some weird stuff, if we can… you never know. There’s been a few odd things reported to have happened in the sky, here in ND, so there’s a possibility.

We’ll be taking two different cameras, since mine is not a very high quality. Both of the cameras are able to do video, so if we find any odd lights in the sky, I’ll link to the video, here.

I had a weird thought pop into my head, a few nights ago. What if every single star in the sky (each on the sun of a solar system) had a planet orbiting it that was able to support life? The thought isn’t too far-fetched. I mean, we haven’t been able to communicate with any of them, and the chances of them communicating with us is also pretty high. We have, however, had some strange things happen, here.

If each solar system had a planet that supports life, we are not as alone as we thing we are.

One of the most amazing videos that I’ve seen happened in February of this year. Multiple different people in multiple places, catching the exact same thing on camera.

The Eaves

I just recently started using something called Empire Avenue. I use the term “using” a little loosely, because it’s actually made to be something that you “play”. The service lets you connect all of the other services that you use… Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, you blogs, etc. and each time you hit certain goals, your “value” increases.

It is made to look and feel like a sort of “stock market” where you can buy and sell shares of other people, and they can do the same for you. It looks like a lot of other people have been on it for a while, and are “worth” quite a bit.

I’ve only been on it for a couple days, and I’m already finding it highly engaging. Personally, I think that by using it, I will be more engaged on my blogs and other sites… except possibly Facebook.

You can join Empire Avenue by clicking here. By using that link, you should also get an extra 2000e (the “currency” that they use).

This post was made as a verification for this blog, and the verification string at the beginning of the post should be removed, shortly.

Scrambled Signals

Until about 15 years ago, I used to be really into radio scanners (police scanners) as a hobby. At that time, I moved up to North Dakota (from Colorado) and the amount of radio traffic made it a very boring hobby. I sold all of the scanners that I had.

Within the last year, I started hearing more and more sirens around town, and I decided to buy another scanner in January. For the past eight months, I’ve enjoyed listening to what’s going on around town.

Today, our law enforcement center decided to make my $100 RadioShack scanner almost useless. They started scrambling all of their signals, and all I hear is an encrypted static sound. No police, no fire, no ambulance. The only thing I can still hear is the weather, the trains, and some local businesses.

Quite a poke in the eye to me… somebody that is usually up all night, including weekends, working at the north end of downtown… sort of an extra set of eyes and ears for them. Even as recently as a few weeks ago, when somebody was assaulted about a block away, I knew what was happening, and was able to be “on the lookout” for the guy wearing the red shirt and black shorts.

Now, I won’t even know if something that I should know about is happening at the other side of our parking lot.

I can understand (to a degree) why they’re doing it, but it makes me feel like I should “encrypt” the video from our 16 cameras (which I actually can’t) so that they can’t use it to help them anymore.

Our local police just lost a huge degree of trust from me by doing this.

Stop it B!