From: jimmyw836@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 8:50:07 PM UTC-5, MrPosti...@kymhorsell.com   
   wrote:   
   > UPDATE: The TV program mentioned at the bottom has today changed it's   
   > ad for the up-coming spot. Previously, it had featured a "threat"   
   > message. Just seen as I was about to post this was a new ad for the   
   > spot that is now strictly neutral. Given the way most things are   
   > quietly controlled by the govt in Australia, it would seem said TV   
   > spot may be part of an official info release and possibly the initial   
   > message has been modified to alert but not alarm the public esp in the   
   > run up to a national election due in May.   
   >   
   >   
   > A possibly long and boring story as usual told in the style   
   > of the childhood tales our parents told us in a long ago   
   > century. I find it calming. Staying calm is likely to become   
   > more important in the near future.   
   >   
   >   
   > All the events are real. It's as close to accurate as I can   
   > manage. But when assaulted by a barrage of things over hrs   
   > which sometimes includes surprise deviations from normality,   
   > I kin gits a bit cornfuzed.   
   >   
   >   
   > It was another busy day over my part of outer Melb last night. But it   
   > is "often" a busy day.   
   >   
   > Proceedings seem to start around 9pm on most days. It helps when the   
   > sky is totally clear because action happens in all directions,   
   > sometimes with things buzzing around in all directions for a couple hrs.   
   >   
   > The "usual pattern" nowadays also involves one or more aircraft of   
   > conventional types. In the recent past these have been light aircraft   
   > with unusual arrays of lights -- very bright leds -- that can not be   
   > nav lights but something else.   
   >   
   > A couple light aircraft are apparently fitted out with big arrays of   
   > white LED's on the bottom. Hard to imagine this could be an aid to   
   > taking pix of the ground or pix of satellites.   
   >   
   > One story we've seen recently is the AUS govt is surveying the sky for   
   > foreign satellites. The stories don't say exactly how this is   
   > supposedly being done. But you'd imagine light aircraft might not be   
   > the best way to do it. Ground based telescopes or high-power   
   > wide-field cameras should seemingly be the way to go there.   
   >   
   > But the stories might be both the truth and a cover story for what is   
   > going on for other reasons.   
   >   
   > Some of the aircraft that include a couple of very very quite choppers   
   > incl big yellow and red lights on front and back.   
   >   
   > One chopper with a big yellow light that typically shines out the   
   > front is particularly interesting. It sometimes tools around the local   
   > skies with all other nav lights turned off. If it's turning off its   
   > nav light because its doing "terrorism surveillance" (the local   
   > region is one of foreign terror groups largest recruiting zones -- we   
   > sometimes have guys in black PJ's running up and down streets carrying   
   > flags with -- forgive the ignorance -- Arabic writing on them; and   
   > there used to be groups of guys with very straight backs and very   
   > short back & sides rolling around in black cars pretending to be part   
   > of the local scenery and apparently surveying things that were going   
   > on) then you don't really want to attract attention with an   
   > arena-lighting appliance on the front of your aircraft even if it has   
   > a very very quiet engine.   
   >   
   > Another chopper or choppers have big red lights on the front or back.   
   > These typically flash. Even if you're looking in the opposite   
   > direction, with one of these things hanging around in the area you   
   > immediately turn around to see what the H*ll is going on. So it's not   
   > really a stealth strategy.   
   >   
   > So what is going on?   
   >   
   > Well last night provided more clues. As I said, this is kinda a   
   > nightly thing with some nights being way more busy than others.   
   >   
   > Last night was quiet overcast. But as you get into the swing of things   
   > you find this is only a minor impediment. The gaps between the clouds   
   > sometimes feature moving lights. You can tell it's the lights moving   
   > rather than just the clouds because any star visible in the gap stays   
   > still. It's quiet obvious when the little light is moving with respect   
   > to the rest of the world.   
   >   
   > Around 9pm I went out to watch proceedings again. It started off slow   
   > with a couple of lights moving in odd ways across the sky. They might   
   > superficially seem to be satellites. And sometimes they act exactly   
   > like satellites. They go from west to east, maybe curve northward   
   > toward the east which is a totally valid path for a sat. Sometimes   
   > they flash bright yellow at some part in their path. This is also   
   > normal for satellites. On one occasion a sat seemed to flash dazzling   
   > violet for a tiny fraction of a second. This is not quite normal for   
   > satellites. Another time or 2 as the "sat" moves across the sky there   
   > are pinpoint pinpoint flashes nearby. Also not normal for satellites   
   > passing overhead.   
   >   
   > Both of these 2 sats that started the evening were pretty normal.   
   > Sometimes there are so many objects I get a bit confused later over   
   > exactly what happened. Last night might have been like that. So it's   
   > hard to remember if one of these first 2 guys was super fast and the   
   > other was super slow. Or one might have been bright yellow for a good   
   > part of its track and the other was just a tiny little dim yellow thing.   
   >   
   > Whatever. A few mins after the 2nd one left off to the NE somewhere a   
   > light plane turned up -- surprise -- over in the NE. Unlike a commuter   
   > at 9.30pm it didn't disappear off to the N. It hung around, doing   
   > orbits over in the E and later over in the N. Mostly flashing its   
   > white belly lights.   
   >   
   > Sometimes during proceedings I have to go inside for a coffee or visit   
   > the loo. Something like that happened around 10pm.   
   >   
   > When I came back there were no new little lights moving around. But I   
   > could hear a heavy heavy chopper off to the SE. Sounded like a big   
   > multi-blade rotor wakka-wakka-wakka over there.   
   >   
   > In 5-10 mins it turned up and flew over the property at least one time   
   > while it toured the general area. It tended to come and go from sight   
   > in the next 10-15 mins. At one point it was up in the NW which seems   
   > to be one of the fave locations for this kind of aircraft. But "kind"   
   > I mean it was a chopper with a high flashing red light seemingly on   
   > the back. I've also seen similar big choppers with a big flashing red   
   > light seemingly mounted under the nose of the thing.   
   >   
   > I kept looking around the sky and not much else seemed to be going on.   
      
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