Western PHX. Looking South East towards Buckeye Without a doubt the longest 'shooting star' i have ever witnessed. My family is 'slow' but they were able to all turn around fully in their chairs and see what I was seeing. I know we came out of a meteor shower a few weeks ago but this was significant enough that I thought I would post here and see if anyone else is seeing other anomalies tonight??? This 'shooting star lasted at least 6 seconds and didn't 'shoot' as fast as any object I've seen burn up. Keep your eyes open pedes WWG1WGA EDIT: Not meaning to be a Hopium or Doomer. A relative who isnt Q friendly and saw it suggested that it may be a falling satellite Edit # 2 : since this appears to be a topic of interest, can we get this pinned as a new thread and delete this so people can post any possible airborne anomalies? It was a true WTF moment for everyone im my fam that saw
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Are you kidding? You must live where there are no clouds. I live in the Pacific Northwest (Puget Sound) and we have LOTS of clouds. If we were to live in fear of the dimming of the sun from contrails, we would all be in our graves by now. Did it ever occur to you that, by virtue of being white, contrails are more luminous than the blue sky itself? Get over it. Contrails are just another kind of cloud, and Mother Nature has means to wring them out of the sky as precipitation.
It's the weather conditions. Low humidity, large contrail. High humidity, small contrail. It's not smoke; it's condensed water vapor (steam). Modern turbofan engines are run at the very limit of lean mixtures, avoiding any soot. I come from a company that builds jetliners. There are no ejection systems and no such spraying program. We have other things on our mind.
I have seen multiple contrails extend from horizon to horizon. It's no big deal. Have you complained to your local weatherman? He can tell you if the sunlight has been significantly moderated. I lived in the Santa Barbara area for two years and marveled at the seeming total absence of clouds. Where I come from, half the scenery is in the sky. We can have the sky totally covered with clouds, and yet there is plenty of daylight. Albuquerque, NM, gets about 50% cloud cover and no one would complain about a lack of sunlight.