Last week I was at work showing a trainee the start-up procedures of one of our combustion turbines. (basically its a jet engine bolted to the ground with a generator attached to the end of it, used to generate about 50 MWs of electricity.) As the rotor winds up and fires are lit in the cans, we then go outside to see if there is any visible emissions coming out of the stack.
Well while we were looking at the stack, I seen this strange rather bright, metallic object in the air high (facing south) over Pearl Harbor. It was about 1/8 the size of a full moon and it was moving in a zig zag pattern. It would change velocity quite rapidly and at times would seem to hover. I asked my coworker "wtf do you see that?" He was studying the object and making comments like "Man, I've never seen anything like that before!" etc.
The odd thing is that this was around 1030 am on a bright blue clear day, and both of us were stone cold sober.
I was thinking maybe the heat waves emitting from the stack was playing tricks on our eyes--so I walked in front of the stack and it was still up there--Zig zagging and changing size--but it looked like it was flying under control.
I thought it might have been either a weather balloon or possibly one of those mylar balloons, but it would change direction quite rapidly. It just behaved like someone was flying or controlling it. After about a minute of watching it or so we had to go back inside the control cab to continue our startup, and by the time we got back outside the object was gone.
It kinda struck me as odd as a good friend of mine is an amatuer astronomer (for like 18 years now) and he has shown me all kinds of natural and man-made objects in the sky. (like laser stars, fuel dumps, satelites, missile tests, meteors, comets etc.) When I asked him about it--he just kind of shrugged his shoulders and thought it odd and rare seeing something behaving the way I described--and it being during a clear day--even stranger.
I dont know--I dont really believe in UFO's or anything before but what we observed was very bizarre.
Well while we were looking at the stack, I seen this strange rather bright, metallic object in the air high (facing south) over Pearl Harbor. It was about 1/8 the size of a full moon and it was moving in a zig zag pattern. It would change velocity quite rapidly and at times would seem to hover. I asked my coworker "wtf do you see that?" He was studying the object and making comments like "Man, I've never seen anything like that before!" etc.
The odd thing is that this was around 1030 am on a bright blue clear day, and both of us were stone cold sober.
I was thinking maybe the heat waves emitting from the stack was playing tricks on our eyes--so I walked in front of the stack and it was still up there--Zig zagging and changing size--but it looked like it was flying under control. I thought it might have been either a weather balloon or possibly one of those mylar balloons, but it would change direction quite rapidly. It just behaved like someone was flying or controlling it. After about a minute of watching it or so we had to go back inside the control cab to continue our startup, and by the time we got back outside the object was gone.
It kinda struck me as odd as a good friend of mine is an amatuer astronomer (for like 18 years now) and he has shown me all kinds of natural and man-made objects in the sky. (like laser stars, fuel dumps, satelites, missile tests, meteors, comets etc.) When I asked him about it--he just kind of shrugged his shoulders and thought it odd and rare seeing something behaving the way I described--and it being during a clear day--even stranger.
I dont know--I dont really believe in UFO's or anything before but what we observed was very bizarre.
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