Fire in the Sky

Bizarre fireball filmed over Germany

NYC812
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Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:21 UTC

Comment: This looks like it could be a fireball/comet fragment that is doing some electrical things as described by Jim McCanney. Also, looks like some of the strange comet things described by the ancients and why they called comets "serpents." The double tail then appears to be just the way this one manifested.

Also, some fireballs that travel so "leisurely" may be not be purely 'physical' objects since electrical phenomena also seem to be often transdensity (or transdimensional).

Reader Comments

Tina · 2011-02-12T09:31:20Z

Reminds me

of this sighting from November. [Link]

deej · 2011-02-12T19:20:56Z

Son of a gun

This looks remarkably close to something my wife and I saw this morning while driving into Anchorage (Alaska). We put it down to being a plane, but it didn't look right for that, nor seem to travel at the right speed for that.

It did, however, look almost like a dead ringer for this thing, double tail and all. The biggest difference is the tail looked white as a contrail, rather than fiery.

Bizarre coincidence at the least

Appollynon · 2011-02-14T05:49:59Z

Direction change

Is is juts me, or has anyone else noticed at around the 58sec mark, when a thick cloud passes between the viewer and the phenomena, there is a sudden deviation of direction of around 30degrees from the previous path? I've never seen behaviour like that from a comet or bolide type obejct before, it almost seems deliberate or under some form of controlled and manouvered decent. Not sure what to make of this one.

avatarius · 2011-02-14T08:34:29Z

Curious...

because.... Asteroid makes sharpest turn yet seen in solar system......which is the next article down.

stormcrow · 2011-02-14T10:19:42Z

Whatever it was..

it was truly beautiful and amazing!

deej · 2011-02-14T17:20:25Z

Yeah Appollynon

that turn is impressive. I figured it came from something like surface ablation forming a shape on the object that was aerodynamic enough to push the object into a different trajectory.

It was pretty odd, though, whatever the cause.

Noise · 2011-02-14T22:53:50Z

Something else..

at near 29-30 seconds as the camera goes up on the trail there is a white sparkle, very briefly, couldn't get the frame by pausing.

Cal Sailor · 2011-04-26T20:30:24Z

Inflight Air Refueling

I am a former aviator (Flight Engineer, USAF C-141) and this looks like contrails of a tanker with a pair of fighters lining up to suck the hose. The reason the contrails all merge into two lines is because of the wingtip vortices and engine exhaust of the larger aircraft being so much more massive than the small fighters, that they are merged. Notice the two dots slightly to aft and port of the more distinct, larger dot. This is the normal position of those awaiting refueling and also waiting for the last bird to get topped off so they can cruise on to their destination. Inflight turns are also common while refueling so as to remain in a certain area for the next customer.
The video looks as if it were filmed at sunset accounting for the color of the contrails. Most inflight refueling missions that I have been on were conducted between 20-25,000 feet.
Cool video though.

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