I was recently talking to someone in a group that was planning to make   
   some kind of tech to track UFOs.  I was interested in that part. But   
   during the email exchange they mentioned their "ultimate" goal was to   
   track ufos with the aim to communicate with them via radio signals.  I   
   mentioned this may not be a great idea given some of the apparent   
   links in the data between some types of ufos and various unsavory   
   things like kidnaps, animal deaths, plane accidents, etc.  I might   
   have said something like "you dont know who you're talking to -- it   
   may not be one of the good guys".  That pretty much ended the exchange. ;)   
      
   But I should maybe take my own advice.   
      
   Over the past several months it seems quite normal at certain times of   
   the night to go outside and see little lights moving around the sky.   
   Mostly they are dim. Some are bright. Some of them are VERY VERY   
   bright.  Some are moving at the speed of a high alt jetliner. Some are   
   moving 2x faster. Some are moving very very very slow. No doubt some   
   of them are satellites.   
      
   But when they move in patterns that dont seem to relate to orbiting   
   around the centre of the Earth -- e.g. in the S Hem it comes from the   
   SE and reaches the zenith and then proceeds to the SW in a gentle   
   curve -- you suspect some are not satellites. Also if they stop and   
   hover and emit irregular violet flashes maybe that's another sign they   
   are not all satellites.   
      
   We also see "interactions" between moving lights and various aircraft   
   flying -- I assume -- out of the local international airport.   
   Sometimes the aircraft (heavy choppers) look like military.  Sometimes   
   you see several aircraft at the same time in diff parts of the   
   sky. Oftentimes these aircraft converge on some spot where a light had   
   been moving just a few seconds before. Surely, it seems, they are   
   chasing the lights. Hard to know what is going on. Taking photos?  Or   
   trying to move them on using something I can't see -- like radio broadcasts.   
      
   Many of the aircraft also seem to have not-related-to-navigation   
   arrays of lights. One aircraft I saw low on the horizon seemed to have   
   a huge oval light on the top of it -- like a radar dome you see on   
   some military jets, but not a radar dome but a freaking big light.   
   What are they trying to do? Pretend to be a yellow orb to scare off   
   other ufos?   
      
   Anyway. Whatever they've been doing it's started to work. The number   
   of times I go out at night over the last couple of weeks and within   
   mins see some weird light moving around the sky or hovering and taking   
   photos (or whatever that violet flashing is about) has decreased to   
   almost nothing.  The peak viewing time used to be 8pm to 10pm   
   locally. Now you can go out and see nothing moving -- apart from small   
   aircraft with strange arrays of lights flashing -- in the sky.   
      
   It even got to the point a couple days back when my old friend "flashy   
   aircraft" was orbiting to the S of me. I hadn't seen anything it might   
   have been there for. But maybe something showed up on radar or   
   whatever other gear they have. There was a flash of yellow -- I   
   assumed it was just a meteor -- and the little aircraft turned around   
   from its orbit and zeroed in on the spot the "meteor" had   
   appeared. Maybe it wasn't a meteor.   
      
   Anyway. I discovered in the PAST couple of days there's another time   
   you can see these little lights now they have been moved on from the   
   8-10pm slot.   
      
   I went out early this morning to dump some garbage. I looked up and   
   noticed the sky was unusually clear given we've been getting flooding   
   rains and the sky has been totally socked in most nights for the past   
   week or so.  So I dumped the garbage, patted a couple of local strays   
   on the way back to the door, and went out to the back yard to look at   
   the sky.   
      
   There were some fluffy clouds around but at least 1/2 the sky was   
   crystal clear and dark. Within seconds I had spotted 2-3 little lights   
   coming from the N and headed approx S. They seemed to be above the   
   clouds.  There was a big fluffy cloud with its edge immed above me,   
   extending over to (let's say) my left.   
      
   As the little lights moved -- a couple of the faster ones, maybe 2x   
   the speed of a jetliner -- they disappeared behind the clouds every   
   now and then.   
      
   One of them disappeared quick. But one of them was skirting on the   
   edge of the cloud bank and I could see it easy.   
      
   It got to around 60 deg above the S horiz and I thought -- appear   
   friendly -- and gave it a wave.   
      
   Uh, oh! It brightened and slowed. Don't know how far this thing was   
   away.  But maybe a few km. Maybe it has good "eyesight"?   
      
   It started glowing brighter and brighter and seemed to be changing   
   shape or maybe dropping in altitude. A bit hard to tell.   
      
   My heart was certainly reacting to the change in flight   
   characteristics.  I was starting to think of cars and trucks moving   
   around on nearby roads as some kind of protection. ;)   
      
   But within a few sec the light started to dim again and speed up and   
   disappear into the distance over the clouds.   
      
   But it wasn't over. Inside a minute a bright light started to come   
   back in my dir from the S, headed slightly to my left (east).   
      
   This time NO WAVING! ;)   
      
   It continued and disappeared behind a big tree in my front yard.  I   
   didn't immed run around it to see where it had gone to.   
      
   About a minute later I went over to another yard on the opposite side   
   of my property and looked back. Nothing moving around AFAIK.  I was a   
   bit surprised to see what looked like 2 Venuses.  But over a min or 2   
   neither of them took off so I presume one was Venus and the other was   
   Saturn or Jupiter. Situation normal.   
      
   So I think my rule from now on. No waving at the funny little lights.   
      
      
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