Re: Subscriber Located

R.B. Minton (rbminton@sembilan.UCHSC.edu)
Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:17:37 -0600

In message <199608281721.KAA12739@netcom2.netcom.com> Robert Sheaffer writes:
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> 
> Hello, my name is Robert Sheaffer. I live in San Jose, California ....
>
> ...."debunker") of UFO claims, for many years. To find out more about me,
>
> My location is "approximately" 37 deg 17' 19" north, 121 deg 59' 09" west.
> And now that you know where I am, if you're wandering in the neighborhood
> with your GPS receiver, please drop by for tea! (No fair looking me up
> in other sources!) I wonder if anyone could actually do that???
> 
> If anyone knows of any interesting events that might be observable from
> my location, let me know and if I can see anything, I'll post my 
> observations.
>
Hello Rob:  I too am a UFO debunker since I feel that 99.99% of UFO observations
are misidentifications - but that .01% is disconcerting (perhaps real).
  
Your location is between Rancho Rinconada & Campbell on a U-shaped city block
with a stream on the west side.  Go to the Tiger Map Service URL, type-in your
coordinates, and do a 20X zoom-in.
  
I find the TiPS satellite to be one of the most interesting ones I've seen.  If
you use moderate magnification you see a silvery line (tether) with a faint 
satellite at each end.  Each appears to be flashing (rotating) independently of
the other.  I saw one at mag 9 and the other at mag 10 in a 16" Dob.
  
I too have a GPS receiver - look me up in Ft. Lupton, Colorado.  BCNU.
  



R. B. Minton
-104.7932, +40.0876, 4525 ft.