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devongrant
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Visible anomaly.<br /><br />My wife and I witnessed a very large, if visibly discrete, gaseous anomaly in the nights sky between the position of the stars Mizar and Thuban at 22:35pst on August the 20th, 2006. It was a very large cloud like apparition (similar in form to the comet I had seen in 1986 when witnessing Halley’s comet) and only visible when one focused away from the apparition, apparently due to the light pollution of our neighborhood. At 22:37 hours, I reported back to my wife that it had disappeared, to which she was very surprised. I had told her initially that I saw a comet, and she acknowledged that she saw gas cloud as well, and was then as surprised as myself to find that only a minute later, the anomaly had vanished.<br /><br />Any reports of this type of course are subject to objective skepticism, and I hope to hear soon that other people were witnesses to the same exciting (if insignificant) astronomical event.<br /><br />Truly<br /><br />Devon Woollett<br />