© Blanche WardOn November 17, Blanche Ward of Charlottetown sighted an unidentified object flying slowly across the sky. She initially spotted two trails of smoke before identifying a small red dot with her camera.
Ward immediately rushed back into her house and grabbed her camera. When she zoomed in and took her shot, she saw a small red dot with the two lines of smoke trailing behind.
She says the object remained in the sky for one or two minutes before dropping below the horizon and out of view.
It is presently unconfirmed what the object was. Ward immediately suspected that it was a meteorite or a piece of space debris. It is a strong possibility that the object was the peak of the Leonids Meteor Shower which peaked on November 17 - the day of Ward's sighting.
On the other hand, if it was a piece of space debris, Ward does not believe it would have landed anywhere near Charlottetown given its apparent altitude.
She has spoken with other locals in Charlottetown, none of whom actually spotted the object.
Reader Comments
[Link] so why meteorites couldn't float a little and fly in weird wandering patterns, when coming down, when we know, how high energy phenomena like tornados mess with physics?
No meteors don't fly slow (what is the electrical potential difference between?). Meteors travel at a minimum of about 10 miles per second (initial) and usually much faster. We have the usual double contrail. The red dot is probably because it is a military jet or has additional tail engines. It may have just fired the afterburners judging by the thickening and darkening of the contrails - implies military. The only puzzling thing to me is the lower RHS seems to show a split contail. I guess the outer is water vapour condensation from the wing tip and the inner the engine(s) output. A meteor travelling that slowly has no propulsion and would not have got anywhere near the horizon. That is a powered vehicle.
So when the Earth spins around Sun at 30kms/s, what do you think will happen when some object enters atmosphere at roughly same speed and trajectory?
The earth doesn't spin around the Sun at 30kms/s...it moves along with the sun along a spiral path, that itself goes up and down in a sinusoidal pattern around the galaxy in addition to spinning on its axis. Well before the "meteor" enters the atmosphere it already begins to "sync" in with the gravitational affect of the earth. Once it hits the atmosphere it experiences a much stronger pull of gravity towards the surface negating its relative movement to the earth. So in the end it comes to what carefix mentions.
If one could really acquire a very slow descent due to relative movement of the earths "spin"...then such things are space shuttle re-entry would not need so much care and attention to shielding for re-entry. Would be simple enough to align a re-entry parallel to earths movement and supply a bit of upper thrust to keep it a very much as a glide with little shielding at all. But we know this isn't the case because the downward pull is much stronger being as close to the earth when in the atmosphere. I agree with carefix too that potential difference makes no sense whatsoever. If potential difference was a factor then we could have done away with rockets long ago..and just potentially charge a capsule/ship with a charge opposite the earths net charge and repel our ships into space.
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Perhaps to get the point across..instead using rockets and the implied agency as an example...anyone in their garage could charge an object and send it up hurling it away...better?
This is a chem-trail delivery system that has been seen all over. The powers-du-jour have been experimenting with rocket launch chem-trail delivery systems for several years now. The winged red ball variety is most likely dropped from high altitude planes...... :0
The electrical differentials cannot provide that much hang time. Again, in the scope of seconds at best, and to be frank it would take a LOT of juice to create it.
However, note how the smoke is being pushed aside of the object. There is a force that is causing an unusual distribution of 'plume'. Far too regular for a small object, perhaps for something the size of half a football field it could do that.
"I dont know" is the beginning of wisdom, and I have no idea what it is, only what it is not.
Not if we were looking straight dead on from behind an afterburner.