Just saw a UFO in Orbiter

[Bodrius]

I don't know what it was, but I saw something. I was just making a trip to the moon and about halfway I saw something that at first I think it was one of the planets. It looked just like one, a big white dot, bigger than a star. I pressed F9 to see which planet was, but it was none, so I kept looking at it and it started to look dimmer, until it dissappeared.
I have no idea what it was, but I know it was not a ufo! Possibly a glitch, I don't know, but it was funny. :lol:

 

[willy88]

It was a weather balloon.

 

[ryan]

Were you using the Glider or a staging vehicle?

 

[the.punk]

Yes. When you used a staged spaceship it could be a stage.
Or it could be an othe vessel in your scenario.

 

[Quick_Nick]

I don't know what it was, but I saw something. I was just making a trip to the moon and about halfway I saw something that at first I think it was one of the planets. It looked just like one, a big white dot, bigger than a star. I pressed F9 to see which planet was, but it was none, so I kept looking at it and it started to look dimmer, until it dissappeared.
I have no idea what it was, but I know it was not a ufo! Possibly a glitch, I don't know, but it was funny. :lol:

If you have a quicksave or something, you can redo that part of your mission and change the planetarium settings to display vessels or other objects if necessary.

 

[agentgonzo]

Dust on the monitor? ;-)

 

[n122vu]

Relax, Buzz. It was just the Saturn IV B booster.

 

[Bodrius]

I was using a DGXR1, but I launched it in a staging rocket, with a lunar moldule wich I docked to in orbit. Yes, I know I left a lot of junk behind, but last stage burned to Earth into the Ocean, so I don't think it was my junk.

 

[MJR]

Or it could be Jupiter. I do not know what you saw, but I don't think I saw anything like that before and I have been playing Orbiter for a long time.

 

[liber]

You saw something...

 

[MJR]

Or you saw Die Glocke.

 

[djidji]

the probe maybe??

 

[ar81]

It is a glitch in the Matrix...

 

[John_L]

Radio down to Houston and ask where the S IVb is

 

[T.Neo]

Probably a speck of dust or dirt on the monitor. The same thing has happened to me a few times.

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

I've known the HUD in glass cockpit mode to produce a strange speck on occasion the same colour as the hud currently is that moves relative to the velocity vector. Made me think I was seeing a planet or distant object on occasion.

 

[spcefrk]

It was the S-IVB. No big deal

 

[Andy44]

I was using a DGXR1, but I launched it in a staging rocket, with a lunar moldule wich I docked to in orbit. Yes, I know I left a lot of junk behind, but last stage burned to Earth into the Ocean, so I don't think it was my junk.

That's good. You never want to see your junk floating out there in space!:lol:

 

[ijuin]

Yes, especially if your junk is visible for thousands of kilometers.

 

[Cpt CryBaby]

I want to believe.