From: skybuckflying@gmail.com   
      
   Wow your reaction was fast ! If you live near the east coast of the USA or   
   England you might even spot it, it's most likely coming your way, or maybe   
   it's going to Amsterdam/Schiphol, I don't know...   
      
   I did post a new/third thread in my own subthread with a picture/impression of   
   what I saw.   
      
   From my previous UFO experiences and critical thinking I have learned a lot   
   how to deal with UFOs.   
      
   Here is my plan what to do if you ever see a UFO:   
      
   1. Observe.   
   2. Stay calm.   
   3. Try and take a picture.   
   4. Write down the date and time after the sighting is over, or if it's taken   
   too long.   
   5. Write down the location where you were and in what direction you were   
   viewing/staring.   
   6. Make a drawing of what you saw in case you could not make a picture for   
   whatever reason.   
      
   By performing these simple steps it becomes much easier to late go back to   
   this event and the information about it and start investigating like,   
   especially with special software like Stellarium:   
      
   Was it the moon ? Was it a satellite ? Was it something else ? What do other   
   people make of it ?   
      
   Maybe with other tools one could even maybe try and figure out if it was a   
   certain plane/flight path or so...   
      
   And also cross-reference the date,time,location direction, sighting with   
   anybody else that might have seen it ! ;)   
      
   I know what I saw was not much... it was short, very short, but not too short,   
   plenty of seconds for my brain to get a really good read/vision on it...   
      
   I had plenty of time to open the balkony door, so I know 100% it was not a   
   reflection in the glass from some internal lights or anything.   
      
   I do wear glasses, but it's not a reflection in my glasses.   
      
   I could very distinctly see a strange beam of light which as far as I can   
   recall I have never seen before... or very maybe a faint relocation... maybe   
   once before... but did not register it in brain enough...   
      
   This time I was alarmed, because I rarely see anything strange anymore, I look   
   up regularly, I do see the occasional plane, and contrail and all of that   
   stuff...   
      
   And far away helichopters from Maastricht Airport, even sometimes planes taken   
   off from Maastricht airport.   
      
   This was something totally else... I was so weird... it started to alarm me   
   pretty quickly... at first I couldn't believe it and I was like... hmmm that   
   is probably a light corner of the moon, but then I started wondering... how   
   can this be ? There is    
   clouds everywhere... it was a very gray and clouded day, even discussed it   
   with my mother earlier that day.   
      
   This sighting alarmed me so much it made me quite the phone conversation with   
   my mother to grab my camera.... by the time I came back a few seconds later   
   the sighting was gone...   
      
   Quite an interesting sighting... a learning moment for me.   
      
   I know that in the direction/place I look, very frequently I see high flying   
   aircraft/planes... jetliners/cruisers cruising their way across the sky.   
      
   That is what I have a strong feeling this may have been a plane shining on a   
   cloud !   
      
   If true then that is kinda a funny sighting and could explain maybe other UFO   
   sightings of other people.   
      
   So it's usefull to make a little drawing. I wonder how long that light may   
   have been visible, I have no idea... I just walked in on it and busted it...   
      
   Anyway, one last thing to do is make a computer simulation some day to see how   
   far a jetplane can shine a light and if I could see it that far away ! ;)   
      
   Bye for now,   
     Skybuck.   
      
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