I've personally seen weather balloons burst two times, and this is
exactly what they look like- a bright point (visible as an extended
object through a telescope), that suddenly fragments, the pieces falling
downwards relatively fast. There's no combustion, just reflective mylar
balloon material reflecting the Sun.
BTW, if the clock in the camera was correct, Venus was well below the
horizon when the video was made.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sky detonation video
Yesterday I viewed a video on youtube that is utterly perplexing as
to
what
is being videod.
At first you seem to be viewing a stationary object in the sky near
Venus,
through a high powered lens or telescope, it is motionless for 10 -
15
seconds, then, suddenly explodes, and debris falls to Earth for quite
a
while.
??
Any guesses as to what it might be folks?<<
Well...it looks like to me to be something with a relatively slow
speed...roughly that of a balloon for example. It could be mostly
coming or going away
from the observer. If it's at a distance...like a quarter mile or
more, and
moving any direction, it will still appear near motionless for the 10
or 15
seconds of viewing. When it exploded, the pieces didn't appear to have
any
appreciable velocity other than what a falling object would have under
the
influence of gravity. Don't know what it was, but my gut is leaning
towards it
being a prank. A balloon carrying a bright object of some kind
perhaps? The
balloon could have been filled with hydrogen or natural gas and
designed (or
accidentally) to ignite at some point. It doesn't have the appearance
to me to be
something I'd get overly concerned with...unless it was a combustible
over a
dry brushy area.
George Zay
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