As I have said a few times - in this field of investigation - one of the things one needs is a good working knowledge of certain fields: Astronomy being one of them.

Venus is way to often 'seen as a UFO' - simply because of it's atmosphere chemical make up and how close it is to Earth. It is called the Evening Star and Morning Star for a reason. (ppst - it's not a "star" - it's a planet.)

Well check this out - pretty cool stuff:

Space Weather News for Feb. 9, 2007
http://spaceweather.com



1/4 page down: VENUS PILLARS. Very nice pic!

EDIT: Typo's happen ....

Very well versed on the transits of Venus. Last time I checked, the planet Venus doesn't make 45-degree, right angled turns, or zip across the skies at thousands of miles an hour in three seconds, nor has a metallic image, or change colors from blue, to green, and red all at the same time, nor does Venus show up on radar, or leave physical traces of radiation on the ground on Earth.

Venus is called "Morning Star" when it rises ahead of the Sun, and "Evening Star" when it sets after the Sun. And yes, I think most people know that Venus is a planet and not a star.

Also - you spell "Astronomy" with an "r."

Ha Theodore...well this is an interesting link...but I doubt people get it confused as alien spacecraft. As "Theodore" said, Venus doesn't zip across the sky miles of hours fast and does not show up on radars.

I find it 'curious' that no where in my post did - Hold let me check .... Nope, didn't mention anything about "flight paterns of zipping across at 45 d angles'.

But IS Venus often mistaken as a UFO?? Yes ...

This post was for two purposes:

A - Let people know something was cool to watch for if they had the chance.
B - Not to be 'fooled'.

I am sorry if offense was taken.... not intended.

Venus was always mistaken as a ufo but if something went down 10 feet above your head and it's really bigger than a plane.
I don't know what you call it.

Guy - you reading way too much into this thread - it was just a "heads up" is all - it was so not meant for anything else. Just a 'heads up'.

Jj -

Indeed, astronomy is something that is amazing the general public, with better telescopes of all kinds, publicity photos from the likes HST, and teaching about it to younger and younger students.

A few years ago, there was a skycam at a hawaiian observatory that captured a UFO. It took some internet sleuthing to find out it was the spent first stage of a rocket, whose fuel residue was incandescing.

And, last year, there was an Australian new release about a video of something in the predawn sky. There was an identicle video taken in the desert southwest of the U.S., about the same time. They were probably Venus, out of focus.

There was a news release in China, with a somewhat similar effect- out of focus with rings appearing on the object.

I am becoming less inclined to accept even my own sightings of odd lights in the sky. One appeared thirty feet off the ground, at a distance of about 800 meters. This object stood still, then accelerated. I was driving on hills. The road dipped, and at the next rise, the light repeated the same thing. It moved lower to the ground as it moved. I turned around (I had a passenger), and left.

And, one was a formation of five lights, which appeared to be about two hundred feet over head. It resembled the Phoenix triangle object, only with other details and no superstructure effect. It occured in Texas, on May 14, 1998. I was the only witness.

I was not even thinking about UFOs. And, in 1998, never thought about the subject. It was just the only explanation I was ever able to come up with. I did not feel they were astronomic phenomena, light cannons, or searchlight related.

I am more convinced, though, that the whole subject is full of human fallacy, human endeavor, itenerant huxterism, and the effects of Jules Verne and American pulp literature.