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Story By Billy Cox About The Sky Watch We Had Last Night,He Was There
So for those of you that don't know who Billy Cox is,he is a writer for a few different news papers,and has written more about UFOs then any other mainstream media.The story below is the one he wrote today about last nights sky watch.
by Billy Cox
Nearly six months have passed since “we” last checked up on the backyard exploits of Jamie Havican. So much has happened, he and spotter buddy David Ryals barely raise their voices anymore when a UFO blinks on.
“There,” says Ryals, pointing north, relaxing in a low chair early on this clear Wednesday evening in Englewood. He clicks his flashlight and aims it like a light saber.
Havican says “Where?” as he shifts in his seat. “Ah. Got it.” It’s a subtle thing, not exactly white, not quite orange. The speck swims amid the flashlight’s diffused beam at what appears to be a high altitude. Its movement is erratic as it wobbles, brakes and accelerates along a southern course. Then it drifts into a more easterly bearing before dimming out altogether. Ryals clicks off his flashlight. Duration: no more than 15 seconds.
Havican has been busy with his digital Sony IP-55, logging some five hours of what he says are UFO images. But one glimpse of Jupiter through the viewfinder frames the challenge. Jupiter burns in a fixed position to the south, but it squiggles like a fluorescent tadpole with just the slightest movement of the hand-held camera. Havican has tracked UFOs with a tripod, but finds the effort so cumbersome, his targets are usually gone by time he catches up. So he still uses the hand-held. But he’s planning to upgrade soon.
Much of his footage — but not all, as his September 22 sequence illustrates — involves featureless single white orbs in the night sky. His attempts to figure out what’s flying over his house prompted him to put his stash online at Florida Sky Watchers, where visitors are free to have at it. He started booking weekly podcast interviews with veteran UFO researchers like Stan Friedman, Nick Pope and Richard Dolan. To his own surprise, his shows have drawn up to 4,000 listeners.
And this weekend, Havican is set to join a Facebook initiative called International UFO Skywatch. During a 24-hour stretch from midnight Saturday through midnight Sunday, participants hope to coordinate camera coverage across global skies and pool their results in a common database.
But as they become old hands at this sort of thing, Havican and Ryals are getting to be real performance critics. “It’s gotta do something really impressive for me to pay much attention to it anymore,” Havican says. “It’s gotta change direction or light up or something like that.”
It’s a low-key night. Closing in on 9:30 and maybe three faint sightings, none of which meet Havican’s standards. Ryals has a late-shift looming in front of him. He doubts we’ll see much more due to rotation away from the sun angle.
“You know,” he says, gathering himself for trip home to Venice, “we’ve seen ‘em loop around us before, almost like they’re checking us out.”
But not tonight. Maybe they’re saving it up for a big weekend.
The link to this story on the local newspapers site is http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/10327/a-yawner-over-englewood/
by Billy Cox
Nearly six months have passed since “we” last checked up on the backyard exploits of Jamie Havican. So much has happened, he and spotter buddy David Ryals barely raise their voices anymore when a UFO blinks on.
“There,” says Ryals, pointing north, relaxing in a low chair early on this clear Wednesday evening in Englewood. He clicks his flashlight and aims it like a light saber.
Havican says “Where?” as he shifts in his seat. “Ah. Got it.” It’s a subtle thing, not exactly white, not quite orange. The speck swims amid the flashlight’s diffused beam at what appears to be a high altitude. Its movement is erratic as it wobbles, brakes and accelerates along a southern course. Then it drifts into a more easterly bearing before dimming out altogether. Ryals clicks off his flashlight. Duration: no more than 15 seconds.
Havican has been busy with his digital Sony IP-55, logging some five hours of what he says are UFO images. But one glimpse of Jupiter through the viewfinder frames the challenge. Jupiter burns in a fixed position to the south, but it squiggles like a fluorescent tadpole with just the slightest movement of the hand-held camera. Havican has tracked UFOs with a tripod, but finds the effort so cumbersome, his targets are usually gone by time he catches up. So he still uses the hand-held. But he’s planning to upgrade soon.
Much of his footage — but not all, as his September 22 sequence illustrates — involves featureless single white orbs in the night sky. His attempts to figure out what’s flying over his house prompted him to put his stash online at Florida Sky Watchers, where visitors are free to have at it. He started booking weekly podcast interviews with veteran UFO researchers like Stan Friedman, Nick Pope and Richard Dolan. To his own surprise, his shows have drawn up to 4,000 listeners.
And this weekend, Havican is set to join a Facebook initiative called International UFO Skywatch. During a 24-hour stretch from midnight Saturday through midnight Sunday, participants hope to coordinate camera coverage across global skies and pool their results in a common database.
But as they become old hands at this sort of thing, Havican and Ryals are getting to be real performance critics. “It’s gotta do something really impressive for me to pay much attention to it anymore,” Havican says. “It’s gotta change direction or light up or something like that.”
It’s a low-key night. Closing in on 9:30 and maybe three faint sightings, none of which meet Havican’s standards. Ryals has a late-shift looming in front of him. He doubts we’ll see much more due to rotation away from the sun angle.
“You know,” he says, gathering himself for trip home to Venice, “we’ve seen ‘em loop around us before, almost like they’re checking us out.”
But not tonight. Maybe they’re saving it up for a big weekend.
The link to this story on the local newspapers site is http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/10327/a-yawner-over-englewood/
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