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From: Bryan Butcher <being@concentric.net> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:54:02 +0000 Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 01:36:13 -0500 Subject: Re: Mexico City Video > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:26:02 -0500 > From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com> > Subject: Mexico City Video > To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net> > I previously posted a preliminary analysis of the Mexico City > Aug. 6, 1997 sighting/video which will be in the next issue of > the MUFON Journal. > I recently received from the MUFON investigator in Mexico City an > aerial survey photo which shows the buildings in the pictures. I > also got a scaled map. > These have allowed me for the first time to calculate the angular > size of the UFO image and to estimate its distance. I find that > the UFO was probably a little more than twice the size I used in > the posted paper, i.e., 43 ft vs 20 ft. Since all the speeds > and accelerations calculated in the article were referenced to > the assumed 20 ft size of the UFO, the new data can be > incorporated by multiplying all the previous numbers by 43/20 or > about 2. Further analysis combined with witness testimony may > allow for even more precision in determining the distance of the > UFO from the camera. Bruce... Would it be possible for you to post the aerial survey map and the scaled map to the Internet for others to peruse? Thanks, Bryan Butcher -- _________________ connections- - - - ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Dreamsenses: The Home of Being! - http://www.raccoon.com/~bryan The Des Moines Astronomical Society - http://www.sciowa.org/~dmas The Near Pathfinder Anomaly Analysis Group - http://www.mufor.org/ares UFO Forum - http://forums.msn.com/UFO _________________ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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