Showing posts with label Contrail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contrail. Show all posts
Sunday, November 24, 2013
What Was That Mysterious 'Fireball' That Streaked Across The Oregon Sky? | VIDEO
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Sorry, extraterrestrial fanatics. That "fireball" that streaked across the Oregon sky Wednesday morning probably wasn't alien in nature.
Local KOIN meteorologist Bruce Sussman said that the unknown object, which some took for a UFO, was most likely a contrail left in the wake of an aircraft. Sussman "solved" the mystery by analyzing the station's time-lapse footage of the sky.
Previously, the U.S. Strategic Command ruled out the possibility the fireball was a man-made object re-entering the atmosphere, KATU News reported.
Some early morning skywatchers were stumped by the unusual sight, since the object appeared as a bright streak across the sky over east Portland. . . .
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Chichester UFO Riddle Explained | VIDEO
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By Chichester Observer
10-17-13
A MYSTERIOUS sighting over Chichester has been explained by one of the city’s leading astronomers
Genevieve Baldomero took the pictures of a strange light in the sky as she stood on Spitalfield Lane around 6pm yesterday (October 16).
“I saw a bright descending light in the early evening sky,” she said.
She said she thought it was an aeroplane but it was very slow moving and ‘almost suspended in the air’.
Dr John Mason, principal lecturer at the planetarium in Chichester, said the phenomenon was caused by light reflecting off a plane’s vapour trail an ‘incredibly long way away’.
“It’s quite interesting because yesterday evening was an extremely clear and transparent evening,” he said.
“What that lady has seen is an aircraft condensation trail lit by the sun.”
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