An interesting project from the past!

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My message archive goes back into the early 90s.

BTW, jack was working with NASA on the development of the off axis telescopes for space!


-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Wootan<[email protected]>
To: Jack Wolfe<[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 7:32 PM
Subject: IR Cameras


> Hello! Jack;  I've been very busy trying to get settled in
> our new home in the country.  Hope everything is OK in your
> neck of the woods .  My wife  Cindy  and I were out UFO
> hunting laying out on reclining lawn chairs in our yard
> about 11:00PM one night recently .  We saw an un-identified
> object that was very large and very far out in space that
> was moving fairly slow.  Much slower that any meteorite.
> When it first appeared high overhead moving toward the North
> it was a bright gold white color then as it moved it slowly
> changed color to a dull red and apparently went to infrared
> and out of our sight.   Now my theory is that there may be a
> lot of UFO's out there which we could see if we could look
> at the sky in the IR band.  What would you recomend as a
> good low lux IR camera that we could see the output on a TV
> monitor??   What type of lens and telescope could we use
> that could handle far infrared??  Have you any ideas on this
> line of endeavor?  This UFO looked to me to be shifting it's
> frequency down into the IR band so as to not be visible.
> How are the telescopes working out?  Ideas??   Norm
>