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Old 09-08-11, 04:55 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by Flaxpants View Post

The same can be said for most alleged UFO sightings, why is it not the astronomers who see these mostly? After all, they have the equipment and spend most of their time looking upwards.....
After all it has often been well-trained professional personell confirming such sightings: airliner pilots, military pilots, radar operators and traffic operators... The chance to catch a fast movin object in the atmosphere with an astronomic telescope of big size, is almost nil. The focus set for the distant stars could prevent an object close by to even be visible (if you have a refractor objective for your SLR camera, try it), and the telescope covers just a microscopi ammount of all visible sky above you.
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