It appears to be lit by the setting Sun. It could be an odd contrail-
certainly the speed and motion are about right. But it's got an unusual head
for a contrail. Maybe an aircraft or balloon that is venting something,
perhaps for some kind of experiment?
Chris
Yeah, I though it odd Hence the ? mark.
I did notice the sun setting (or rising) and thought this could possibly
explain the orange glow of the fireball if it is contrails reflecting
the orange glow from beyond the horizon.
Still though, if it were a contrail from an airplane wouldn't it
It appears to be lit by the setting Sun. It could be an odd contrail-
certainly the speed and motion are about right. But it's got an unusual
head
for a contrail. Maybe an aircraft or balloon that is venting something,
perhaps for some kind of experiment?
I'm not able to get the video to
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It appears to be lit by the setting Sun. It could be an odd contrail-
certainly the speed and motion are about right. But it's got an unusual
head
for a contrail
Still though, if it were a contrail from an airplane wouldn't it persist
in the air longer than it does? The tail of this fireball seems to
stay the same length through out the video and not stretch out across
all the way across the sky like a contrail would. Why is that?
Once right
This thing in the video
seems too large at the start, which is why I speculated that something was
being vented.
Another thing to consider is that if the object is appearing slightly
askew and going away from the observer, details at the beginning can blur in
with details further on
Very slow- just like a plane. The thing takes a good 5 minutes to go
from
its starting point to behind a foreground hill.
Chris
Oh thanks...that helps a lot. I'm now convinced, despite what it looks
like, we are looking at the contrails of a distant jet liner traveling away
from the
Combination of bad optics, dry air, hazy day, and setting sun equals
fireballs that last more than 4 minutes No wonder it looks like a
fireball.
You can add on to the above that the object was traveling away from you.
At night you will have folks seeing stationary lights that suddenly
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Yeah, I though it odd Hence the ? mark.
I did notice the sun setting (or rising) and thought
I agree with Chris: this to me is a short aircraft contrail lit by the sun. I
see no reason at all to think of a meteoric fireball.
It keeps surprising me that contrails, in this age of ubiquitous aircraft
traffic, are still confused with fireballs so often.
- Marco
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