Chip
Well-known member
Anyone else see the magnesium flare or meteor over 93 in Campton tonight ?
about 8:47pm.
about 8:47pm.
magnesium flare or meteor over 93 in Campton tonight ?
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mirabela
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VT Air National Guard has been doing night exercises. Sonic booms over the Northeast Kingdom around that time or a little later, maybe related ...
Ken MacGray
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I often see meteorites / debris burning up in the atmosphere on my drives back to MA. Pretty neat.
I think Mirabela is probably right, lots of military aircraft tearing all over the place last evening up in the north country.
DougPaul
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Missile counter-measure flares look like a string of lights dropped from an aircraft flight path at a rate of one to several per second. (They are dropped from an aircraft to distract a missile's IR target tracker.) They are pretty distinctive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flare_(countermeasure)
Iridium (satellite) flares appear as a single stationary flash lasting up to 20 or so seconds. They are caused by sunlight reflecting off a flat mirror-like antenna and can be bright enough to be visible during the daytime. They are predictable--you can look up forecasts for your area. Other satellites can also flare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare
http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO...=&bih=&q=iridium+flare&gbv=1&oq=iridium+flare.
Other possibilities are a meteor, a satellite, or a high altitude aircraft all of which move along straight paths.
Doug
Iridium (satellite) flares appear as a single stationary flash lasting up to 20 or so seconds. They are caused by sunlight reflecting off a flat mirror-like antenna and can be bright enough to be visible during the daytime. They are predictable--you can look up forecasts for your area. Other satellites can also flare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare
http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO...=&bih=&q=iridium+flare&gbv=1&oq=iridium+flare.
Other possibilities are a meteor, a satellite, or a high altitude aircraft all of which move along straight paths.
Doug
jfb
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Better watch yourselves driving down I-93 around Franconia Notch. Lights in the sky.
http://www.historicmysteries.com/betty-and-barney-hill-abduction/
Or in the case of Barney. Better watch your a++!
http://www.historicmysteries.com/betty-and-barney-hill-abduction/
Or in the case of Barney. Better watch your a++!
He probably got a pass because he was not driving a pickup.
erugs
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Last year we saw a candle lantern in flight around that area. A short while later, a Statey at a high rate of speed heading in that direction while we were traveling in the other.
