Interesting, but not helpful due to no location given, the vid cut short for any earth fall (it had to land somewhere!), and with no context. Is there even a date associated with this video? One thing we can tell, due to its long burn and LARGE burn, this is a substantial bit of material, but due to its speed probably not a meteor or asteroid. More likely, some large object in orbit finally succumbed to gravity and fell to Earth. More than that, we can only guess at.
I've seen something like this twice, in broad daylight.
One fell straight down in massive flaming pieces - I thought I was seeing a plane crash and I was horrified! But there was no news of it. No report. Nothing. SoCal, 2008.
Then another in (I think) 2007...a huge flaming fireball very much like this one that crossed the sky from Palm Springs headed toward LA. It looked like it was chugging along in slow motion, but it had to have travelled between those two cities in less than five mins. Pretty extraordinary.
This wasn't a plane, btw. To begin with it was the size of a city block, but also we were on the flight path to LAX for years - so we kinda know the difference between jets and a huge ball of fire.
Here's an idea - it looks like the weather is really hazy and foggy, maybe she is actually filming a mountain in the distance, obscured by fog, with a small forest fire burning. It looks like it's coming down through the tree line, but maybe it's just the woman walking closer with her camera. And she says "something's burning", not that something is falling.
Well, if so, that would be a mighty MIGHTY steep mountain. The only mountains I know of in the US that are that steep would be the Grand Tetons, and I haven't heard anything about fires there.
It moved across the sky. From her single point, it moved quite a bit. It maintained its shape as it moved. It took forever to fall, so that tell me it was very large and very far away. It was not a stationary point on a mountain.
My point exactly. A simple, small bolide would streak across in seconds and vaporize rapidly. What this DID remind me of was the Space Shuttle disaster that burned up on reentry a few years ago. The heat shielding prevented some of the debris from burning up immediately, and it seemed (from the ground) to slowly come apart for many minutes, although it was traveling at whatever reentry speed is, pretty fast.
Interesting, but not helpful due to no location given, the vid cut short for any earth fall (it had to land somewhere!), and with no context. Is there even a date associated with this video? One thing we can tell, due to its long burn and LARGE burn, this is a substantial bit of material, but due to its speed probably not a meteor or asteroid. More likely, some large object in orbit finally succumbed to gravity and fell to Earth. More than that, we can only guess at.
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I've seen something like this twice, in broad daylight. One fell straight down in massive flaming pieces - I thought I was seeing a plane crash and I was horrified! But there was no news of it. No report. Nothing. SoCal, 2008. Then another in (I think) 2007...a huge flaming fireball very much like this one that crossed the sky from Palm Springs headed toward LA. It looked like it was chugging along in slow motion, but it had to have travelled between those two cities in less than five mins. Pretty extraordinary.
This wasn't a plane, btw. To begin with it was the size of a city block, but also we were on the flight path to LAX for years - so we kinda know the difference between jets and a huge ball of fire.
Here's an idea - it looks like the weather is really hazy and foggy, maybe she is actually filming a mountain in the distance, obscured by fog, with a small forest fire burning. It looks like it's coming down through the tree line, but maybe it's just the woman walking closer with her camera. And she says "something's burning", not that something is falling.
Well, if so, that would be a mighty MIGHTY steep mountain. The only mountains I know of in the US that are that steep would be the Grand Tetons, and I haven't heard anything about fires there.
It moved across the sky. From her single point, it moved quite a bit. It maintained its shape as it moved. It took forever to fall, so that tell me it was very large and very far away. It was not a stationary point on a mountain.
My point exactly. A simple, small bolide would streak across in seconds and vaporize rapidly. What this DID remind me of was the Space Shuttle disaster that burned up on reentry a few years ago. The heat shielding prevented some of the debris from burning up immediately, and it seemed (from the ground) to slowly come apart for many minutes, although it was traveling at whatever reentry speed is, pretty fast.