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RE: Invasion?
If the object were near our planet at all (as an invading armada or a military craft would be) it would not appear to be coincident with Sirius for everyone. Indeed, if you drove 200 miles away, the object would be quite far from Sirius, visually, if it were within a few hundred miles of the ground.
Indeed. All though, if you're into wearing tin foil hats, it would definitely be a clever way to sneak up on a target planet by drifting inside the light path of a star.
Also, the streaks of the stars are caused, of course, by the earth's rotation. For an object's trail to appear that curved it would need to be moving quite a bit (thousands of miles per second), perhaps orbiting Sirius itself.
Absolutely correct. However, the field of view from a zoom lens at 200mm should not have the resolving power to differentiate an orbiting object whose orbit takes it that far from the star, let alone be equal in magnitude to the star or even orbit that quickly in such a short amount of time.
It's curious that you observed the same phenomenon multiple times from opposite sides of the planet (and so, presumably months apart). Have you looked for it again since?
No - the last time I saw it was three months ago in late November 2006. I haven't looked since because while it is bright, the lights of NYC are brighter and wash just about everything out.
RE: Invasion?
I can't make heads or tails out of the first two UFO descriptions, but the third one, the one over the Franklin Mountains in El Paso; could it have been some kind of beacon or laser beam even, that someone far away was shining in the sky? If it was in the horizon, even if there was no cloud cover, the distance through the atmosphere might still cause this sort of light to show up. As soon as it clears up I've got to get out and look at the sky. I can't imagine though, and I know you can't either, that with even all the amateur astronomy clubs around, that someone else hasn't noticed something.
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Invasion?
If the object were near our planet at all (as an invading armada or a military craft would be) it would not appear to be coincident with Sirius for everyone. Indeed, if you drove 200 miles away, the object would be quite far from Sirius, visually, if it were within a few hundred miles of the ground.
Also, the streaks of the stars are caused, of course, by the earth's rotation. For an object's trail to appear that curved it would need to be moving quite a bit (thousands of miles per second), perhaps orbiting Sirius itself.
It's curious that you observed the same phenomenon multiple times from opposite sides of the planet (and so, presumably months apart). Have you looked for it again since?
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