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An Okanagan farmer who regularly takes photos of the sunrise captured a whole lot more this week when she spotted a meteor in the sky. Janette Casey Ewens, who owns Labyrinth Farms north of Kamloops, was in the barn yard at 6 a.m. on Monday when she saw a "thing" falling from above, she told The Huffington Post B.C.
"I ran back up to the house and grabbed my camera and snapped a few pics then hit the record button," she said in an email. "It happened twice a few minutes apart. The second time it happened faster."
The American Meteor Society received three reports of a fireball being spotted from West Kelowna, Cranbrook, and Three Hills in Alberta. Joanne Rosvick, an astronomer and associate professor at Thompson Rivers University, said it was likely space debris that perhaps came from a satellite, reported CFJC.
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Typical Jet Airliner
Stop the video at any point other when it is past and behind the treeline...and you can see a consistent split/break in the middle of this contrail; Because that's what it is, a plane, nature doesn't give such a well defined path that is following the supposed meteor. A meteor would be burning up and changing shape and give off an irregular pattern of "smoke" that follows it. Meteors don't typically last that long, if it was a meteor lasting that long...it would be huge, and make a very large impact ( more than just a few people would have known about it ). Don't confuse the irregular patterns you see in this video which occurs some time after the contrail was created whereby air currents are able to do their work; again stop at anytime in the clip and you will see the exact same double contrail pattern that stays in a straight line for some distance behind the plane. Also because its near sunrise and the angle of the lighting with the plane far off and very high...can give the impression that it is going down when if fact it may be just flying level or at most on a gradual descent. Seen these so called meteor/burning objects many times around sunset and sunrise....careful observation is all it takes instead of jumping to premature conclusions.
Stop the video at any point other when it is past and behind the treeline...and you can see a consistent split/break in the middle of this contrail; Because that's what it is, a plane, nature doesn't give such a well defined path that is following the supposed meteor. A meteor would be burning up and changing shape and give off an irregular pattern of "smoke" that follows it. Meteors don't typically last that long, if it was a meteor lasting that long...it would be huge, and make a very large impact ( more than just a few people would have known about it ). Don't confuse the irregular patterns you see in this video which occurs some time after the contrail was created whereby air currents are able to do their work; again stop at anytime in the clip and you will see the exact same double contrail pattern that stays in a straight line for some distance behind the plane. Also because its near sunrise and the angle of the lighting with the plane far off and very high...can give the impression that it is going down when if fact it may be just flying level or at most on a gradual descent. Seen these so called meteor/burning objects many times around sunset and sunrise....careful observation is all it takes instead of jumping to premature conclusions.
Stop the video at any point other when it is past and behind the treeline...and you can see a consistent split/break in the middle of this contrail; Because that's what it is, a plane, nature doesn't give such a well defined path that is following the supposed meteor."
Are you sure about that?
[Link] [Link]
"A meteor would be burning up and changing shape and give off an irregular pattern of "smoke" that follows it. Meteors don't typically last that long, if it was a meteor lasting that long...it would be huge, and make a very large impact ( more than just a few people would have known about it )."
Not true. They rarely impact, they mostly explode in the upper atmosphere. They can be visible for minutes. They can slow down, perform spirals, go up and down... and back up again, go backwards and forwards... meteors are also electric-plasma phenomena, not purely 'kinetic' phenomena. Here, read this, you might learn something: [Link]
"Don't confuse the irregular patterns you see in this video which occurs some time after the contrail was created whereby air currents are able to do their work; again stop at anytime in the clip and you will see the exact same double contrail pattern that stays in a straight line for some distance behind the plane."
What plane?
"Also because its near sunrise and the angle of the lighting with the plane far off and very high...can give the impression that it is going down when if fact it may be just flying level or at most on a gradual descent. Seen these so called meteor/burning objects many times around sunset and sunrise....careful observation is all it takes instead of jumping to premature conclusions."
Again, what plane?
Are you sure about that?
[Link] [Link]
"A meteor would be burning up and changing shape and give off an irregular pattern of "smoke" that follows it. Meteors don't typically last that long, if it was a meteor lasting that long...it would be huge, and make a very large impact ( more than just a few people would have known about it )."
Not true. They rarely impact, they mostly explode in the upper atmosphere. They can be visible for minutes. They can slow down, perform spirals, go up and down... and back up again, go backwards and forwards... meteors are also electric-plasma phenomena, not purely 'kinetic' phenomena. Here, read this, you might learn something: [Link]
"Don't confuse the irregular patterns you see in this video which occurs some time after the contrail was created whereby air currents are able to do their work; again stop at anytime in the clip and you will see the exact same double contrail pattern that stays in a straight line for some distance behind the plane."
What plane?
"Also because its near sunrise and the angle of the lighting with the plane far off and very high...can give the impression that it is going down when if fact it may be just flying level or at most on a gradual descent. Seen these so called meteor/burning objects many times around sunset and sunrise....careful observation is all it takes instead of jumping to premature conclusions."
Again, what plane?
Contrail
SoTT please stop this garbage. Meteors travel across the sky in seconds, at dawn or dusk these slowly moving aircraft have their contrails enhanced by sunlight. A fireball that slows before burnout/breakup can travel slower but we are still talking seconds. It is pathetic.
SoTT please stop this garbage. Meteors travel across the sky in seconds, at dawn or dusk these slowly moving aircraft have their contrails enhanced by sunlight. A fireball that slows before burnout/breakup can travel slower but we are still talking seconds. It is pathetic.
Carefix, you know the way you're dead certain that what you saw back in the 80s is a 'dark asteroid'? The one you've named Itys?
The sum scientific input we have on that object is... your memory.
Here at least we have video evidence. What it is is not certain, but it's highly unlikely that this farmer (and thousands of others in recent years) would get excited about a jet passing overhead.
The sum scientific input we have on that object is... your memory.
Here at least we have video evidence. What it is is not certain, but it's highly unlikely that this farmer (and thousands of others in recent years) would get excited about a jet passing overhead.
Huge explosion in Canada.
I was thinking yesterday that there have been quite a few meteor sightings in Canada recently and then came across this article from CBC News about an explosion that flattened a house near Greely, Ontario; [Link] Now, It may have been arson or an accident but this quote from a witness made the hair on the back of my neck stand up; "Glenn Powers, who lives about 20 to 25 kilometres away from the incident, said he was out taking pictures when he heard a "huge explosion."
"Probably more of a cannon, like a large cannon, something really, really, really loud," said Powers. "You could tell it was quite far away, too. It was surprising to hear something that loud.… I was kind of worried."
I was thinking yesterday that there have been quite a few meteor sightings in Canada recently and then came across this article from CBC News about an explosion that flattened a house near Greely, Ontario; [Link] Now, It may have been arson or an accident but this quote from a witness made the hair on the back of my neck stand up; "Glenn Powers, who lives about 20 to 25 kilometres away from the incident, said he was out taking pictures when he heard a "huge explosion."
"Probably more of a cannon, like a large cannon, something really, really, really loud," said Powers. "You could tell it was quite far away, too. It was surprising to hear something that loud.… I was kind of worried."
I have an hour long commute heading west in the afternoon
And almost everyday I notice in the horizon tiny light dots that grow into smoky fingers
As an addendum...most of the time fighter jets are scrambled in the direction of the bolides