On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:54:19 -0800, Chuck Gould
wrote:

Is that really Venus?

UFO's may confound celestial navigators?

Both of them? :-)

There's a plausible explanation of course why some of these reports
have been hushed up or glossed over. There's a good chance that at
least a few of them have been sightings of secret projects of one sort
or another.

There's also an excellent chance that some of them have been large
meteors. I've seen a few spectacular displays while on the water at
night and they really get your attention. One was so bright that it
lit up the entire sky and was visible through the mainsail while
streaking from horizon to horizon in a few seconds. It left a glowing
trail behind it that stayed visible for a short while after it was
gone.

We were all momentarily speechless, not because of supernatural forces
but because it was just awesome.