From: jfricker@vertexgroup.com (John F. Fricker)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 05:01:47 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: [less paranoid NOISE] Re: Odd Satellite observations
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Ok well like I said it was just paranoid noise. So the sats can locate ships
at sea. I wonder what else?

At 01:58 PM 9/9/96 GMT, Jim wrote:
>On Sun, 08 Sep 1996 11:45:45 -0700, I wrote:
>
>>I saw three satellites gliding across the sky (east to west) in 
>>a tight right triangle formation. The entire formation was not 
>>bigger than my hand at arms length. Has anyone else observed 
>>this?
>
>John:  You probably saw one of the NOSS (Naval Ocean Surveillance
>System) constellations.  There are several of these groupings -- all
>in triangular arrays.  They use some form of interferometry to locate
>ships at sea.
>
>Jim
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