Chuck, one of the very interesting presentations made at the rocket club was bytwo professors from Utah State who go out in the Duchesne area and launch weather balloons. I forget the actual class they teach. They get balloons up in the hundred thousand foot area and use ham equipment to transmit telemetry and the like. (I did ask him if they were licensed hands and they answered yes.). It seems that the air above Duchesne is relatively quiet and sometimes they really don't have to travel very far to retrieve them. Sent from my iPad On Sep 3, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
Not a reflection of the sun. I saw this thing only a few hundred feet up when first spotted, it had barely been released. The sky was still dark and the sun way below the horizon at 5:05 AM.
Whatever I saw had an orange on-board light. It was clearly seen. The only other possibility is if it was illuminated from the ground by a spotlight, but I'm sure I would have seen the beam.