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Fire in the Sky
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Highland Fleet Lute
2016-05-31T15:39:25Z
Me and my girlfriend saw one of these, last Wednesday night, heading for mainland Greece adjacent to Skiathos.
Woh! Saw another smaller one from the same spot only eight days later. Directly over Skiathos, smaller and with a fiery tail.
I've seen a similar Bolide &one UFO
I've seen a similar bolide &one UFO
In my life, I've seen one bolide, which lasted about as long as the one in this video, on a March night at South Lake Tahoe in the early 1990's, I'd guess. I was right on main street and was leaving the Nevada Casinos, and about 2 feet INTO California, or, two feet FROM California as the border cuts through right there. The bolide was as bright as a full moon but I saw no one else there who saw it. Nowadays, I bet it would have been 'caught' on some sky monitor, etc., and I like to think that had SOTT then existed, they would have listed it.
I was in the center of main street with crowded sidewalks, and instantly howled "LOOK!!!" and pointed at it. It was about 11.00 p.m., in March and MOST of the bystanders were casino bound on the sidewalks and LOOKED at me. A very few then turned to see I had pointed, but it was, by then, done. Then, (it felt, I guess), as though ALL stared at me as some drunken gambler who'd lost his a**.. (But it was their loss.) They are truly a sight to see. Amazing! (I've never seen an Aurora, though. It's on the list.)
As to the UFO, we were in a place like a desert with a clear sky, no moon, where you could see the satellites passing over. We were lying down and looking up as they did so, mostly moving slowly East to West (I'd guess they were mostly geostationary), but one 'satellite' was going a little faster, than any others had, so it really grabbed our attention. Like the other satellites we'd seen, it was moving from due East to West, but after watching it for three seconds or so, it instantaneously sprang back 120 degrees (to the Northeast), and accelerated so quickly it was lost from sight in no more than one second.
Skywatcher hints: Best 'seeing' is in high and dry places. So, if you ever find yourself in a high desert, or, best of all, up in high mountains (e.g., Rockies, etc.) and far from light pollution, (moonless nights are the best, too), you can then lie down, get your eyes acclimated, look up, and see the usually never seen meteors/shooting stars that are ALWAYS up there to be seen, even without binoculars and even when we're not having a 'formal' or named (e.g., Geminids) meteor shower.
If you ever can - e.g., a ski trip - DO IT!
R.C.
It sure seems from SOTT's links, that such are becoming more and more and more common, and moreso than can be explained by rise in cams, tech., and internet.
We live in 'interesting times,' no doubt.
RC
I've seen a similar bolide &one UFO
In my life, I've seen one bolide, which lasted about as long as the one in this video, on a March night at South Lake Tahoe in the early 1990's, I'd guess. I was right on main street and was leaving the Nevada Casinos, and about 2 feet INTO California, or, two feet FROM California as the border cuts through right there. The bolide was as bright as a full moon but I saw no one else there who saw it. Nowadays, I bet it would have been 'caught' on some sky monitor, etc., and I like to think that had SOTT then existed, they would have listed it.
I was in the center of main street with crowded sidewalks, and instantly howled "LOOK!!!" and pointed at it. It was about 11.00 p.m., in March and MOST of the bystanders were casino bound on the sidewalks and LOOKED at me. A very few then turned to see I had pointed, but it was, by then, done. Then, (it felt, I guess), as though ALL stared at me as some drunken gambler who'd lost his a**.. (But it was their loss.) They are truly a sight to see. Amazing! (I've never seen an Aurora, though. It's on the list.)
As to the UFO, we were in a place like a desert with a clear sky, no moon, where you could see the satellites passing over. We were lying down and looking up as they did so, mostly moving slowly East to West (I'd guess they were mostly geostationary), but one 'satellite' was going a little faster, than any others had, so it really grabbed our attention. Like the other satellites we'd seen, it was moving from due East to West, but after watching it for three seconds or so, it instantaneously sprang back 120 degrees (to the Northeast), and accelerated so quickly it was lost from sight in no more than one second.
Skywatcher hints: Best 'seeing' is in high and dry places. So, if you ever find yourself in a high desert, or, best of all, up in high mountains (e.g., Rockies, etc.) and far from light pollution, (moonless nights are the best, too), you can then lie down, get your eyes acclimated, look up, and see the usually never seen meteors/shooting stars that are ALWAYS up there to be seen, even without binoculars and even when we're not having a 'formal' or named (e.g., Geminids) meteor shower.
If you ever can - e.g., a ski trip - DO IT!
R.C.
It sure seems from SOTT's links, that such are becoming more and more and more common, and moreso than can be explained by rise in cams, tech., and internet.
We live in 'interesting times,' no doubt.
RC
