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From: Mark Cashman <mcashman@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 21:51:13 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 08:15:29 -0500
Subject: Re: Cigar-shaped UFO - Vitebsk, Rep. of Belarus


 >Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:56:05 -0300
 >From: Carlos G. Roselli <croselli@email.ypf.com.ar>
 >Subject: Re: Cigar-shaped UFO - Vitebsk, Rep. of Belarus
 >To: updates@sympatico.ca

 >This transparent quality of object is something I witnessed
 >personally in 1987, using binoculars. Also, I have got similar
 >descriptions of "transparent" sightings in Papua New Guinea,
 >where I worked few years ago. It is curious...


Hi, Carlos!

There are many possible explanations for a semi-transparent
appearance to an airborne object:

1) Low visibility paint - see US Navy aircraft paint schemes -
or other sky-similar coloration

2) Luminous emissions from the near surface area of the object,
with a color similar to the sky.

3) High reflectivity.

4) (1), (2) or (3) combined with haze.

As long as an object does not pass in front of any object in the
sky there is no way to determine transparency. In the case of
(3) or (4) even apparent passage in front of a cloud or other
object may not be suifficient, unless the field of view from the
object toward the observer differs substantially and
distinguishably from that behind - and even in that case, there
can well be a number of unusual perceptual factors at work which
might still convey the impression of transparency.

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