Oct 10. 2010

What was the strangest thing you ever saw in the sky?

Two comets. We lived outside of town and had no yard light unless we turned the one on in the front of the barn where it shown so we could play basketball, well shoot hoops since it is pretty hard to bounce a ball on loose dirt which was in front of the barn. There were only a couple of months in the summer though when we didn't have to turn on any lights but most of the time when we did need lights we just turned on the ones inside of the barn or garage. Well one night as I was just out in front of the barn I thought I saw a plane coming in to land at the airport which was p on the bench just a mile or so from the house. I was use to seeing planes fly over even though it was somewhat occasional. That night however it didn't quite look right as it approached since it was going way to fast and it had only one light. As it went over the area between the house and the barn I thought for sure that it was low enough to hit into the ground above the hill. I raced across the canal bridge and up the hill only to find no trace of it. Well the next day on the radio it was reported that it had hit somewhere in Wyoming . It might have been Montana I don't recall right now anyway it was a long way from where I thought it would hit. Later in another summer I was on a tractor mowing the football field at the Altamont High School when I happened to glance up and another comet caught my attention in the middle of the day. What was really odd about that one is it seemed to go between the earth and a plane flying overhead. It was reported the next day that it had indeed gone under the plane.