This is a sketch of the place
of the sighting:
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and this graphic illustrates the motion:
Speed vs. time:

Overall time (from lighting to hiding) : 3 seconds
Note that there is a short initial time
in which the ellipse does not move at all.
The dashed arrow indicates the trajectory.
Some 30 meters of length at its greatest moment.
My subjective apreciation stands for this height,
but could be a parallel yonder, perhaps above the
median line of the Avenue.
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This is the first image.
It lights in the middle of the sky,
like an old fashioned goose-neck
lamp. It appears above the façade
of the rear building, some meters
above (perhaps 5) and says fixed
for a fraction of second.
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Here it has already moved.
The trail is appearing.
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Now it is already in motion,
accelerating. The ellipse looks
at nacked eye like a nozzle
from which comes out a trail
but its impossible to the witness
to precise which nuances suggest
such impression (metallic cavity).
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Now it is in full motion.
The queue dissipates progressively,
fading from white to black. Only
grey shades without stepping.
No variation in vertical. The
white zones of the trail show
the same white brilliant, with
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Well, I forgot a small detail: in fact the whole thing starts one second
earlier in a very bland way: what I saw first was a shooting star falling from
the upper right corner of the urban landscape shown in the previous page
to a position pretty close to where the ellipse ignited, less than one second
after the line of the shooting star disappeared. I always thought that both
things happened in succesion by a chance, but do not discard the possibility
of being part of one unique event. More ... in spanish.
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copied and reproducted, without any need to ask permision to me,
respecting these principles:
- Not to be used commercialy as a single document. Can be included
in any commercial publication, on any soupport partially or
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- Shall not be modified nor twisted in such a way to make it mean
something different to which is here expressed.
- The source should be cited.
Even if this is an intellectual creation, its contents belong to Mankind,
not to the author. The picture with the image of the UFO is registered
with the number M-12539-1986 .
Technical realization: The animation has been generated with a Basic program
which builds the frames and drives external programs to capture the screen,
format conversion, clipping and assembly. These external programs are
"freeware" and have downloaded from the Net. They are: Capture it!
by Henrique Avila Vianna to grab the screen. Some tricks are required
to invoke it from Basic. Cap2gif by Oliver Fromme to convert to gif format.
Both are found in the package captur22.zip. To clip the gifs around the
area of interest have used gifclip by Gershon Elber, from his packages
giflex.zip and giflib.zip. To assemble the hundreds of frames have found
the useful multigif, by Andy Wardley.
However, the final palette and the first delay had to patch in hex,
because the result was not right. (perhaps happened before)
The pictures from photo have been taken with ScanJet from HP using the
included software from Visioneer. The Web space is courtesy of Angelfire,
easy to create and mantain, thanks to its funtions of browse-upload
and the editor. The WebMonkey has also been helpful, which I should
look up more frequently. To all of them my acknowledge.
The .gif format is a creation of Compuserve.
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