Weird Event. . . looked like meteor shower but wasn't but something else! (Vanity)

Swordmaker Vanity | November 28, 2017 | Swordmaker

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Why low possibility? There are news reports that last evening this attempted satellite launch failed to reach orbit and the satellite and 20 mini satellites all burned up in earth’s atmosphere.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

https://hosted.ap.org/article/7d9b39c6a4444a3bb7bd8a433cca2cf5/russian-weather-satellite-fails-enter-orbit-after-launch

[huldah1776]

be thankful the poles aren't flipping and earth is still protected by the magnetic field...

just learned about the Carolina Bays
Carolina Bays

"Bay Formation Theories One of the first proposals for the formation of the Carolina Bays was made by Melton and Schriever from the University of Oklahoma in 1933. They suggested that a meteorite shower or a colliding comet coming from the northwest could have created the bays. Surface structures created by impacts only became accepted around 1960, when geologist Eugene M. Shoemaker presented criteria for establishing that Meteor Crater in Arizona was the result of an extraterrestrial impact and not the caldera of an extinct volcano."

[gnarledmaw]

The pictures are too grainy for me to see, out of curiosity, did the lights look like orbs to your eye but in the picture appear to be something like a kite shield or the bottom of a glowing ducks foot?

[Swordmaker]

The 'Vette holds seven hours of fuel, even at idle/crawl?

18.5 Gallon Tank. . . and we filled up just before we left SF. Expensive. It takes Premium fuel.

[Swordmaker]

Maybe meteors drop “fairy dust” ???

My granddaughter blesses your validation of her theory . . .

[Swordmaker]

Why low possibility? There are news reports that last evening this attempted satellite launch failed to reach orbit and the satellite and 20 mini satellites all burned up in earth’s atmosphere.

Low possibility because it was not visible from 15 miles away at my daughter's house nor from 45 miles away at my client's house and both had equally excellent viewing. It seems to have been purely localized to my very small area. Satellite falls from the sky are seen across a very wide swath of the country, not just over a itty-bitty area.

One other thing, those sparkling whatevers are back in the trees tonight. We did not get out soon enough to see if the "meteors" preceded them or not. We went out at 9:25PM and they were already in the tree tops, flitting around and sparkling, flying in and through the fronds, but not as brightly as last night with only a couple of them sparking as brightly as a lot had done last night. I got the impression we were at the tail end of the settling in.

I took some more photos but they are less productive of usable images than those taken last night. RATS.

[Swordmaker]

The pictures are too grainy for me to see, out of curiosity, did the lights look like orbs to your eye but in the picture appear to be something like a kite shield or the bottom of a glowing ducks foot?

Some looked like point light sources. Others, inside the trees, were diffuse orbs reflecting off the fronds around them. The "meteors" were streaks with tails and apparently with a head. Looking at the photo that shows two of them, they now appear to be tri-lobed with a head and two lobes in a tail. Strange.

Tonight, they were definitely dimmer blue-white point sources flitting around the tree tops with an occasional orb shape inside the foliage.

[Yardstick]

What’s lighting up the trees in the pics? Is it just the camera flash or is there another light source?

Some birds have almost iridescent feathers — very reflective. Something like a hummingbird has sort of a dangling tri-lobed appearance with its tail fanned out below its body when in hover mode.

So that’s my theory: iridescent hummingbirds congregating in and around the trees reflecting some light source.

[21twelve]

” .... but now I can see that there is a distinct tri-lobed pattern in the tail that may be caused by the flapping of wings ...”

I thought of birds getting into bioluminescent stuff - but that is usually salt-water, although I did see an article on some rare freshwater stuff. (Google Earth shows the American River nearby - a google search of that mainly brought up e-Coli!!) Anyway - with the bio-luminescence - birds could dive in, get covered with the stuff, and then it wears out or the algae or whatever dies in the air).

Also something called a “click beetle” that has it, along with some other insects.

[Swordmaker]

I thought of birds getting into bioluminescent stuff - but that is usually salt-water, although I did see an article on some rare freshwater stuff. (Google Earth shows the American River nearby - a google search of that mainly brought up e-Coli!!) Anyway - with the bio-luminescence - birds could dive in, get covered with the stuff, and then it wears out or the algae or whatever dies in the air).

That's one thought. . . but how is it turned on and off?

Also something called a “click beetle” that has it, along with some other insects.

That's a good possibility. I'm going to contact the County department of Agriculture and pick their brains on luminescent bugs. There does seem to be a native firefly in California. . . but I've never seen fireflies come down from so high in the sky, or occupy trees so tall.

[Swordmaker]

What’s lighting up the trees in the pics? Is it just the camera flash or is there another light source?

Just a generalized source from all around. I've just massaged the exposure of the photo to very high to be able to see anything at all in the picture. If I go any higher the sky gets very blue and blotchy. It's the general glow of the city lights as background. It's definitely not reflective on anything we're seeing. Whatever they are, they are the light source when they light up and when they are bright, they light up the fronds around them to true color green.

These were not hovering, but moving at high speed in the tri-lobed photo. Very high speed, leaving what looked like a light trail.

[missthethunder]

For later

[Yosemitest]

Read about Piezoelectricity and Wikipedia has a good article on it.
Here's two videos on it that have some useful information.

Massive"Booms" Around the Planet/As Earth Slows Rotation. ( 11:45 )


What is COMING? Mysterious Booms Across the USA ( 6:29 )

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Got it. Thanks for the elaboration. Have a great one!

[Yardstick]

Yeah I get that you cranked the exposure. But the shadows on the tree trunks suggest point source. But maybe not. If it was a diffused source then reflections are out and the objects are generating their own light...but then what, fairies?

[Swordmaker]

Yeah I get that you cranked the exposure. But the shadows on the tree trunks suggest point source. But maybe not. If it was a diffused source then reflections are out and the objects are generating their own light...but then what, fairies?

I am leaning toward fireflies.

I went out last night at 7:35 and they were already in the trees, I counted over 50 distinct lights. . . it was two hours earlier than we'd seen them, but it was colder. Maybe their settling in for the night is a function of temperature. What I found most interesting is the duration of any particular flash was quite long last night. I timed three at over 45 seconds each. I've never heard of firefly bioluminescence lasting more than a about ten seconds for any particular insect before turning off and having to have a recovery time before going back on. 45 seconds seems to me to be a very long time.

They seemed to be brighter than the previous night. . . but that's a subjective observation as there is no real way to measure among the nights except my impressions.

[Swordmaker]

PS: my granddaughter thanks you for your suggestion that her idea might be right. . . hehehehe

I wonder if such high tree lights were not the origination of the myth of fairies?