[AstroNet] Update to: UFO reports Sun Oct 18th

[Mellony Spark]

Correction: It seems the object was traveling SE to NW. I just had a 
call from the South of the Nambia
reporting that it passed over them at ~9:45.

Mellony

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Subject: 	UFO reports Sun Oct 18th
Date: 	Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:55:17 +0200
From: 	Mellony Spark <mellony at saao.ac.za>
Organization: 	South African Astronomical Observatory
To: 	astronet at mail.saasta.ac.za



Hello there,

I'm holed up here at Sutherland observatory, trying to get on with my 
thesis in peace and quiet, but since
9 o'clock this evening I've been arrested by phone calls from across the 
country reporting the sighting
of a UFO ('U' because I'm darned if I know what it is), apparently 
making its way across the sub-continent and
unsettling the general populace. I was just curious to know if anyone 
else has had similar reports or indeed
even spotted the thing so I can get back to the conscientious callers. 
Here are the details (identical in all reports):

Direction: South to North, moving at moderate pace, taking ~10min to 
cross the sky.
Times: At ~8:30 it was spotted over Hermanus, just before 9pm over Ceres 
and by ~9:30 it was passing over Jo'burg.
Description: Apparently two sources of light visible, a simple point of 
light being the trailing source closely following the
more curious leading source. The leading source (also a small, bright 
point of light) was emitting circular pulses or spirals of light that 
'looked like the kind of ripples you get when you throw a stone into a 
pond' (the exact words of 2 unrelated callers). It 'gave out bright 
spiralling pulses of light, almost like a firework, which would turn 
into haloes, like the kind you see around the moon, and then fade' and 
then repeat in cycles lasting ~ 4 seconds according to the Ceres caller 
who timed it.

Did anyone spot anything fitting this description?

Cheers!
Mellony