Planet allignment

[John Burroughs]

Ian R

I'm hopeing you can help me out! You have stated that we may have been observing certain plantes in the sky! What were the plantes? Also are they able to be viewed in the same place year around? If not does that mean they are alligned differently durning the year? And can they be alligned diferently each year? And if so what was there allignment in 1980 and when would they be alligned like that again? Would someone contact Ian and ask him to look at this post! Thanks John

[John Burroughs]

Thanks but I need the whole question answered its very important! I need to know where the planets were aligned in 1980 and when they will be aligned like that again or if there that way every year!

[John Burroughs]

Thanks but I need the whole question answered its very important! I need to know where the planets were aligned in 1980 and when they will be aligned like that again or if there that way every year!

[John Burroughs]

OK! Now what about the entire planet system in 1980 and when will it be alligned like that again?

[John Burroughs]

I just need to know for now the way the planets were alligned in 1980 and when they will be alligned like that again! I beleive we statrted a certain cycle in 1980 which runs through 2016 I'm just trying to verify that! Can you give me some help on that Ian!

[IanR]

John B has alerted me to these questions on the Forum, which I am no longer reading.

As previous posters have noted, Jupiter and Saturn were in the southeastern sky on the nights over which the Rendlesham incident unfolded. For those who understand the astronomical brightness scale, Jupiter was at magnitude -2.0, which is brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, while Saturn was around mag +1, which is a bit brighter than the first-magnitude star Deneb.

At 3am on 1980 Dec 28, Jupiter and Saturn were at around 23 degrees altitude in the SE and still rising. An hour earlier they would have been at about 15 degrees altitude and an hour later at around 30 degrees.

Jupiter and Saturn were just over a degree apart, equivalent to two Moon widths.

None of these figures changed appreciably over the three nights of the incident.

Planetary movements are complex and there is no regularly repeating cycle. I don’t understand how this part of the question is relevant to the case. If you want to play around with a chart of planetary orbits see here
http://www.heavens-above.com/planets.aspx?

Does any of this matter? It’s possible that Jupiter and Saturn were among the lights in the sky seen by Col Halt and others but there is no clear evidence of this from the eyewitness descriptions so Jupiter and Saturn have never formed part of my explanation.

There were reports of starlike objects hovering over the forest for hours but these objects were at lower altitude than Jupiter and Saturn and in different directions. I have dealt with these reports at length here
http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/rendlesham3.htm

For those who are not familiar with my explanation of the case, the original sighting of an object apparently crashing into the forest around 3 am on 1980 December 26 coincided with a bright fireball over southern England
http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/rendlesham1d.htm
In their witness statements made for Col Halt, John B and Ed C admitted that after they had entered the woods they saw and chased an unidentified light that turned out to be the lighthouse, but this was not the original stimulus.

Ian

[John Burroughs]

A couple of interestings things Ian what we saw lasted much longer than 3-4 sec it was out there in the woods for more than 30 min and it was going up in down in the trees! The other interesting part was Larry flight was not on duty the first night but was on the second and third night!