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echo: crossfire
to: Roger Nelson
from: Roy Witt
date: 2009-06-29 13:02:42
subject: Flying saucers Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey

29 Jun 09 10:17, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> RN> Then I tuned in to Cocoon and saw much better photography.  (-:

 RW>> LOL! I had a friend in San Diego with a big imagination. He claimed
 RW>> that he saw flying saucers hovering over Mt Soledad. Soledad is a
 RW>> coastal hill about 730 feet in height that overlooks the gem, La
 RW>> Jolla. On top they've put two TV transmitter towers and numerous
 RW>> radio transmitters. I think he had a few too many the night he
 RW>> claimed to see the saucers and there may have been some fog floating
 RW>> around it, making the red lights on the towers look like they were
 RW>> dancing around.

 RN> I can just picture what that looked like at night.  (-:  I have yet
 RN> to see any "swamp gas" here, but I can smell it.

 RW>> We both lived in Clairemont at the time, I lived a mile or so closer
 RW>> to the 'hill'...Clairemont is a 'mesa' (spanish 4 table) that goes
 RW>> quite a ways inland and is as flat as all get out. From Soledad, you
 RW>> can see straight across it to the 'hills' that are La Mesa, which
 RW>> has sort of a twin to Soledad hill.

 RN> I could do that here, if it weren't for the trees.  When I go closer
 RN> to the coast, I can see for miles.

Mt Soledad was my playground in those days. It had a great view and it was
also great for CB radio coverage. A lot of the guys who gathered there
eventually got into HAM radio, as did I.

                R\%/itt

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