Space Engineers What Did You do the other day!

[tkeracer619]

I have been trying to find out what you guys launched the other day in the eastern part of CO. It could have also been Kansas.

1 jet stream twice the normal width of a passenger air liner + strait up = something I want to know about but probably can't.

I know some of you work at Lockheed/NASA/topsecretstuff. Tell us what you guys are up to. Strange things happening over there.

:strooper:

[stugray]

LOL - thats's scary!

The only thing anywhere in that vicinity that is capable of a real launch are the old titan ballistic missle silos. As far as I know, they have all been decommissioned.

Real US rocket launches only launch from Kennedy Space center/Cape canaveral - Florida, Vandenberg AFB - California, Wallops launch facility ( sounding rockets only ) - N. Eastern coast, & alaska.

There is a high power model rocketry club that occasionally launch above 10-20,000 feet. That requires FAA clearance though.

Some of that will change when the New Mexico space port opens.

Stu

[tkeracer619]

Yeah thats what I had thought. Thats why I was looking around for an answer. I am sure that it went strait up..... it disappeared into the sun and that was it.
I was thinking.........is this another self-funded flight into space.

I never thought of it beeing a missle. Regardless of what it was the smoke/condensation trail was huge. Much larger than any passenger or military jet I have ever seen.

Also I used to work at a hobby shop, we used to biuld one of these moster rockets on the counter so our customers could watch the process. It wasn't one of those but I'm thinking I should biuld another one.

I have seen shuttle launches several times. I would have to say it wasn't that huge.... but I might be wrong.

Stu I was counting on you for this one.

[stugray]

If you have actually witnessed a real launch ( particularly shuttle ), and you were still impressed, then it wasnt any high power model that you saw......

Maybe all those silos were just KINDA decomissioned, wink wink, nudge nudge....

LOL

Still scary though.... there is nothing 'official' out there.

Stu

[tkeracer619]

keep your ears open

I can't be the only one who saw it.

[COreefer]

Swamp gas refractinng off a lake in Kansas....

Nothing to see here...move along.

[tkeracer619]

:lol:

[herefishyfishy2]

Maybe its the new Area 51 in Goodland, KS..........LOL

[Clown-N-Around]

Any day now, a man dressed in black will show up and ask Mark to look into a flashing light...

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7505995#post7505995 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tkeracer619
keep your ears open

I can't be the only one who saw it.

Everyone else must have been "flashy thinged" already.

[GoldenAquatics]

What are you guys talking about? I know what I saw......... It was definitely a weather balloon glaring sunlight off of a lake in Kansas. The smoke trail was 10 mamoth smoke bombs that was duct taped to the side of the balloons pulse jet.

I had some Mormons dressed in black come here earlier. Is that who you were talking about?

[GoldenAquatics]

whoops I posted with my busness name.............. now you guys know who I am :lol: ;)

[tkeracer619]

http://www.civilianspace.com/

Maybe it was something like that but bigger. I'm still looking

[Sk8r]

Sweet! I haven't heard of a major case of swamp gas in years! Nice to know we're still flying...

[Somguynco]

Try asking Norad Public Affairs, maybe they can look it up and tell you what it was?

noradpa@norad.mil

[tkeracer619]

i sent the email...... waiting on the response.

[Misfit6669]

I would tell you but then I would have to kill you. I know we both don't want that...



























... or do we?

[stugray]

This might answer the original question.

I saw this truck in Boulder. The rocket on the back is in two pieces. Only the lower section is obvious in the pic, the upper section & nosecone is behid the lower section. Overall this thing would be ~25 feet long when assembled. It may be affilliated with LASP ( the laboratory for atmospheric & space physics ) at CU.

http://www.vzwpix.com/mi/90417722_286725895_0.jpeg

Mystery solved ( or is this just a decoy ..... )


Stu

[Misfit6669]

Oh my, they have blocked your picture and I'm sure they are raiding your house as we speak or is it type.

[tkeracer619]

Wow thanks Stu. I never gave up hope, i knew I could count on you. I am willing to bet that a 2 piece 25' tall rocket could make what I saw. If not at least their decoy gives me some piece of mind.

What about the pic...... your not online......... I hope they didn't raid you. :lol:

[stugray]

weird...

sometimes, when I view the thread, I see the pic, other times not.

Here's a new 'rocket fish' wink wink, nudge nudge.

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/60772rocket.jpg

Stu

[tkeracer619]

look at that beeeeeeutifull swamp gas