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From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:16:00 EDT
Fwd Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:18:17 -0400
Subject: Re: IFOs


 >From: Mark Cashman <mcashman@ix.netcom.com>
 >Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:26:59 -0400
 >Fwd Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:10:27 -0400
 >Subject: Re: IFOs

 >>Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:58:46 -0700 (PDT)
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
 >>From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
 >>Subject: IFOs [was: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?]

 >>There have actually been large numbers, I believe, of UFOs that
 >>have been passed off as aircraft because they resembled aircraft
 >>in certain respects, but they were not because other aspects of
 >>them did not resemble aircraft. One of my own sightings could
 >>illustrate this. It was rather like a medium sized aircraft 1 to
 >>2 miles away, just moving along steadily. However, it was
 >>cylindrical shaped (horizontally oriented), without any tail
 >>section and no wings either (which I intensively looked for).
 >>And it made no noise, though small planes at a comparable
 >>distance can definitely be heard in my neighborhood. And this
 >>object had a single vertical stripe around its middle, rather as
 >>a capsule is sometimes divided into two halves.

 >I must point out that your description is a match to something I
 >see every day here near my local airport - a somewhat distant
 >jet aircraft, usually a DC9, a 727 or some other T-tail
 >configuration, whose features are largely obscured by distance.
 >and haze. The "band" to which you refer is actually the haze
 >filled shadow on the underside of the wing. The shadow is
 >roughly sky color due to the haze or environmental reflection,
 >and only stands out where contrasted against the brightness of
 >the fuselage. The reflected light of the rudder usually
 >eliminates this contrast for the stabilizer.

Hi, Mark, Jim:

See the current issue of the MUFON UFO JOURNAL for an article
about a video of a similar object, where the observer using
human eyesight and binoculars described a plane-like object.
The video was probably not as useful as the eye in such a
situation.

Clear skies,
Bob Young