Mass UFO Sighting New Jersey 9 Jan 09 !!
January 14, 2009
New Jersey-01-05-09-While driving home near interstate 287 northbound, I pulled over to watch the lights. They lasted about 15-20 minutes, then shot off into the distance.
I took a short video taken with my camera. My passenger and I both experienced awe as we watched. Neither of us have seen anything remotely close to this before.
The lights must have been visible for miles. They changed in pattern and shape throughout the 20 minutes or so.
Second Report
As an amateur astronomer of nearly 20 years experience, this is the second time I have seen something in the sky that is difficult to explain. I was on my apartment stoop smoking a cigarette when my neighbor, who was just coming home after parking his car in our complexs lot, called my attention to something around the corner of the building.
I moved to share his line of sight and immediately saw an equilateral triangle composed of six red lights. The lights shone at approximately -2.5 magnitude and covered an area of roughly 9 square degrees in the sky.
Three lights marked each of the triangles corners, and three others were arranged outside around them, forming a larger triangle, equal in proportion and orientation to the inner one.
As I watched, the individual points were in motion with respect to each other, but the group appeared to hang motionless in the southwest sky. At this point, the approximate alt-az of the lights was 160°(SSE) by 35° elevation.
I ran inside and retrieved my 6×30 image stabilized binoculars to get a better look. The formation had shifted to an irregular lambda shape of five or six lights when I came back outside.
Through the binoculars, the lights appeared as tiny points against a backdrop of clouds illuminated by nearby Morristown.
They were clearly below the cloud deck compared to airplanes elsewhere in the sky at the time, and appeared to be separate objects in no way connected by a larger structure.
They moved steadily in ascending, lateral, and descending directions in a manner that seemed to display deliberate coordination, but there was no noticeable sound of aircraft.
I returned inside again and readied my digital camera after waking my fiancé. By the time I started collecting video, the visible lights had been reduced to three or four and had moved to approximately 130°(SE) by 20° elevation and the formation covered less than the area of the full moon.
By this time, eight minutes had passed from when I originally observed the lights.
My fiancé and I watched them, with two of my neighbors, as they hung low in the southeast sky, flickering in a tiny triangle. They shifted into a straight line before the individual lights began to rapidly descend beyond tree line one by one.
One or two could still be seen hovering near the horizon in the distance before they vanished, leaving only a solitary beacon remaining higher up until it abruptly faded.
If the lights had not ascended during this event, I would have been fairly certain they were some kind of aviation flares, but I cannot confirm, as I am not familiar with that sort of thing.
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Quartz Mountain Re-Intro’s The Luscombe 11E On Aero-TV
January 14, 2009
All Things Old May Be New Again?
Its been a long tough road for the folks of Quartz Mountain Aerospace in their quest to bring a fabled airframe back to life. Following years of sometimes-choppy operations, a small Altus, OK-based planemaker might finally be heading for smoother skies. Quartz Mountain Aerospace recently earned a significant milestone on its way towards having its name ociated with the likes of Cessna, or Mooney: the company earned its first airworthiness certificate from the FAA.
Aero-TV caught up with QMA at the 2008 AOPA Fly-In to see an example of their handiwork. Formerly known as Luscombe Aircraft Corp., the company says the Model 11E — which will be used primarily as a trainer — is an adaptation of the Luscombe Model 11A Sedan, introduced in 1946. The new model is distinguished by superior in-flight and landing stability over the tailwheel-equipped Sedan.
Like with innumerable other upstart planemakers, QMA’s trip to this point hasn’t been an easy one. As ANN reported in June 2007, Quartz Mountain attributed the need for layoffs (since rescinded) to delays in FAA inspections related to earning production certification, and various parts, training, and supply issues. With the ability to now produce sell its Luscombe 11E en masse, Quartz Mountain’s 110,000-square-foot work floor — eerily quiet just a year ago — is now filled with the noises of a busy production facility.
Quartz Mountain has also taken recent steps to show it’s serious about playing in the big leagues. As ANN reported last April, QMA announced it will be the first to offer Garmin’s G950 glass-panel avionics suite.
Let’s Take A Look At A NEW Classic, The Luscombe 11E, With Aero-TV
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Harv’s Air Flight Training presents Cessna 172 flying
January 14, 2009
Watch as students and instructors practice exercises such as stalls, spins, touch and goes, and formation flying. Presented by Harv’s Air www.harvsair.com
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