| Monday, November 18, 2002 |
23:26 - Everybody look what's goin' down
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While out back watching for the Leonid meteor shower (the biggest particulate cloud won't be for another couple of hours, but it was worth a shot), we saw a light show of a different kind: a long stream of large military aircraft-- C-5s and C-130s and the like-- rising from Moffett, droning southeastward over our house in South San Jose, and then banking right and heading out to sea. Possibly toward Guam. In half an hour, we saw at least three of these, rising along the same flight path, one that I've never seen taken before.
You'd think something was up.
UPDATE: The later part of the meteor shower rocked. We saw several bolides (exploding meteorite chunks that created long, hugely bright streaks, displayed a flare-out at the end, and left a visible trail of smoke in the upper atmosphere); one of which looked to have penetrated down to about 30,000 feet. Quite a show...
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