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we saw a global object approximately

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five miles ahead of us at first

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the frontal cross section area of this

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object was so small and i

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thought it was an aircraft with a highly

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swept back wing but as it got closer to

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us

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and i then considered it to be

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a meteorological balloon

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um after it passed us by

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from first to last sight was

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approximately 10 seconds and

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then occurred to me that the speed of

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closing was so great that it couldn't

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possibly be a free balloon

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and i have no idea what it could be and

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i passed the report to london airways

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how big was the object

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well it's very difficult to assess the

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size of any object whilst flying

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all i can say the closest i can get to

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it is that it was smaller than the

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was it traveling at any great speed

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uh

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well the closing speed of both the

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object and my own aircraft was

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up in a reasonable thousand miles an

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hour which means that the

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object itself must have been in

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doing at least six to seven hundred

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miles an hour with any windows of it

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not to my knowledge no

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it wasn't powered in any way

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well it must have been powered on a free

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balloon that would only we would only

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approach it at the speed of our own

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aircraft which is 300 miles an

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so it must have been powered the speed

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of closing was too much too great for it

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to be a free balloon did anybody else