Earth Day - "UFO"
So I have decided to try and calculate the speed of the object. This is merely a rough estimate and other factors obviously have to be addressed. The picture below is from Google Earth. The pic on the left was originally three sections of the sky from my zenith to the point it was no longer visible. So I want to start out by placing the "object" at 10 miles in altitude. I then pretended to be the "craft" and then just counted to one minute hitting my mouse button so often to determine how far out the object probably went. At this rough estimation, I placed the object over the ocean as you see in the upper right hand corner. Calculating the mileage per Google map, the object seemed to be 80 miles out. The Earth curves approximately 6 feet in 9 miles. I then calculate the curve to be 52 feet in 80 miles. I am still trying to understand how altitude plays into it all; perhaps putting the object closer or further, especially not knowing the true altitude, even though I can obviously range it from 6 feet up into space. But just going off 50,000 feet, and the very rough estimation of clicking my mouse over the ocean, the object would had to be moving at 5,000 miles per hour/ Mach 7.
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x42 ... 1287561675
So than what goes 5,000 miles per hour in 2007. I go to google and X-43A or Hyper-X pops up:
http://articles.cnn.com/2004-03-24/tech ... _s=PM:TECH
In such March 25, 2004 article it states, "It will be the first time aircraft have detached in mid-flight for hypersonic flight. We've never separated two vehicles going Mach 5," said Leslie Williams, spokeswoman for NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center which is overseeing the test. "That's just never happened. It's a very risky thing."
Speeding up to 2007, I then compare Hyper-X to what I saw, nothing still makes sense. I understand 3 years later we could have made some improvements but looking at the propulsion system and thinking of the effects it creates in the atmosphere, it does not jive well together with my first sighting; as no trails existed and other descriptions I have made on this thread.
Propulsion System of the Hyper-X/ ramjet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3lLQhem ... r_embedded
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x83KeVAzth0&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0KJwa5iWTY&feature=related
Then comes this YouTube Video reporting Mach 10 capabilities:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiBsD-ca ... r_embedded
This is just to get started. Some insight would be great though.