From: kymhorsell@gmail.com   
      
   It was a nice evening for watching little lights in the sky.  After   
   weeks of perishing cold and 99% cloud cover blowing up from the   
   Antarctic, and a day of teaming rain, the evening cleared up with   
   dark, clear skies and tolerable shirtsleeve temps outside.   
      
   Spent maybe 90 mins wandering between the various parts of the   
   property that give good views in key directions. When I first moved   
   out here there were no street lights and you could see the band of the   
   Milky Way across the sky. No longer. The local city has parked 2 huge   
   street lights on either side of my corner property (when I moved here   
   I was at the end of the street) and the latest property change has   
   seen a 2 story block of flats put up on 1 side of me.   
      
   Anyway. Wandering around and shielding eyes from lights in various   
   directions gets the job done. Aided by a bit of swearing at drivers   
   that don't lower their beams or people in 2-story flats that leave   
   their lights on and blinds up 24/7.   
      
   About 12 objs seen. Mostly little lights moving around. Also 3 slow   
   flashing obj that were unlike planes. But -- as usual -- there were a   
   couple of the little planes I call "flashies" that like the name   
   implies run around the sky in inexplicable orbits flashing lights down   
   to the ground, up to the sky, and sometimes sideways. Don't know who   
   they are trying to signal, but the specialised LED arrays doing the   
   flashing are quite separate from the nav lights they also carry.   
      
   About of the lights moved in from the E, either going W or toward the   
   N.  Several came in from the S going either directly N or curving   
   around to the NE. A very bright one came from the W directly through   
   Sirius, directly overhead, seemed to slow down, then slowly curve   
   around to end up going SE. And there were a few others in diff parts   
   of the sky going roughly NW. At one point there were 4 LITS running   
   around in different directions. That's when one flashy turned up in the   
   NE trying to look like it was not following any of the lights yet   
   someone ending up directly under one of them but pretending not to   
   notice and just keep going.   
      
   At another point 2 lights "bracketed" a commercial passenger jet.  In   
   my location you often see jets come in low in the NW, turn left, and   
   go low across N horiz left to right where they go out, do a 90 deg   
   turn right and go along the E horizon on down to the SE where they do   
   another right and head on into Tullamarine aka Melb Airport.  So we   
   see that a lot.   
      
   This time the plane go to around the N point when one LITS was going   
   from E to N in front of it and apparently in parallel 45 deg away was   
   another LITS behind the plane headed off to the NNW or so. I wonder   
   what the people in the plane would have thought if they knew they were   
   being followed.  I've also seen this kind of behaviour a few times in   
   the past 2-3y. (See my ufo diary for the long and boring versions).   
      
   So it was a great evening. Maybe it isn't over. I'll have a coffee and   
   watch the news and maybe go out again a bit later. It used to be the   
   "action" started around 8 and ran to 9.30 pm. But these days for some   
   reason it seems to start much earlier and end around 8pm.   
      
   So what with having seen 100s of these kinds of sessions where 1/2 the   
   obj can not be drones, planes, or sats, you have to wonder why most   
   other people can't see them. I'm often amazed that some celebrity gets   
   a few column inches from reporting something they saw once 10 years   
   ago but was too scared by social pressures and bank balances to report it.   
      
   And on that note I'll finish with news from the Harvard-based Galileo   
   Project that is intending to get "good evidence" for whatever-it-is   
   that rattles Marines and Navy fliers when they go zipping past almost   
   every day.   
      
   The Debrief (and others) report the Project has published 7 new papers   
   describing their observatory package they intend to set up around   
   Harvard and the rest of the country. Some of the equipment is quite   
   neat -- e.g. tracking via passive radar is supposedly done using a   
   wireless mesh network to synch each of the passive receivers in the   
   network. I only have the 2 antennas and it can get to be quite a   
   handful getting the algorithm to make sense of just 2 signals esp when   
   so often there seem to be more than 1 and up to a dozen targets in the   
   sky at the one time. My setup just uses hacked FM radios to get a   
   signal strength for a local station located at a known point.  The   
   Project's system has passive and Doppler receivers. At least 10x more   
   complicated. :)   
      
   So here is what I'm wondering. Why the fanfare about the instruments?   
   Given some astro groups -- be they ever so working in their own time   
   and not on the govt clock -- can look in the sky and see things   
   zipping around all over "all the time", pretty much like what I've   
   been seeing where I am, why is it that nothing has come out yet about   
   what those new instruments have seen? Maybe they haven't seen anything?   
   Or are we waiting for 10 years of data so only the most definitive   
   conclusions will ever see the light of day?   
      
   Anyway. I await the meat.   
      
     Investigation and Tracking of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Explored in New   
     Publications by Harvard Team   
     The Debrief/Micah Hanks, 26 May 2023   
     A series of new scientific papers detailing methods of detection and   
     investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) has been   
     published by a team of Harvard researchers.   
     The peer-reviewed papers were the first published offerings by the   
     Galileo Project, an effort headed by Harvard Frank B. Baird Jr.   
     Professor of Science Avi Loeb that is searching for evidence of   
     extraterrestrial technologies.   
     The seven scientific papers were accepted for publication in an   
     upcoming special issue of The Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation.   
      
   --   
   Section 8. Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) Reports   
   Persons wanting to report UFO/unexplained phenomena activity   
   should contact a ... data collection center, such as the National UFO   
   Reporting Center, etc.   
   -- www.faa.gov, as at 30 Nov 2022   
      
   "[F]or the few cases in all domains--space, air, and sea--that do   
   demonstrate potentially anomalous characteristics, AARO exists to help the   
   DOD, IC, and interagency resolve those anomalous cases. In doing so, AARO is   
   approaching these cases with the highest level of objectivity and analytic   
   rigor. This includes physically testing and employing modeling and   
   simulation to validate our analyses and underlying theories, and   
      
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