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From: watcher_at_hidden_email_address.net
Date: 06/03/1995

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Hi Makela
> I checked out the S+T June 95 issue and there is a photograph
> taken by Pekka Parviainen. The text tells that the strongly
> coloured clouds are noctilucent clouds. That's incorrect.
> This case (which also the photographer knows) is rather surely
> found out as a military missile experiment in Kola Peninsula
> or Arctic Sea area. I have been lucky to see and photograph
> the same display, which was at the end of July 1988.

It's good to hear that the objects were not NLC. I much rather prefer to explain a picture by known phenomenon than to imply that NLC have a new subcategroy to them. I like it when common sense works.

Thanks for the confirmation!

Alister.

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