Thanks Robert A Cook PE, quite right, sounds like a high altitude detonation of a bolide.
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Most likely an airburst of a comet (or rocky meteor) breaking up in the atmosphere.
Consider it a mini-Tunguska or other such impact.
There was one a couple of weeks ago here in NEPA. One of my neighbors is a retired NYS Trooper. He texted me as to what was happening (29 years Vol First Responder) and I had no idea..it was an explosion though! He went searching - we both thought a clandestine meth lab let loose..
I live a little ways outside of a designated dark sky area and spend more time outside late at night than the average person. In my opinion weve had an unusual number of small objects entering the atmosphere this year. Ive seen some really interesting things over the years that I just don’t have a good way to explain. I cant quite likely due the fact that I don’t have any formal education in astronomy.
Of course I see a lot of shooting starts as they sail past but a month or two ago I saw a very strange batch that I just don’t have the ability to properly explain except by using sci-fi type references so please forgive the following insane description.
I assume you are familiar with the blaster bolts one sees in some movies. Two, maybe three, foot long beams of solid light maybe a half to an inch in diameter in appearance moving far too slow for a “laser”. Unlike in the movies these were solid white.
I was looking up into the milky way just northeast of the central pole that holds up the vault of the sky when several of these white blaster bolts were fired at the non-existant person just to my left. Whatever substance these were actually made of must have been quite hard and heat resistant as these were solid, they had no trails or particles flying off to the sides. They flew in and each detonated at the same elevation as though hitting what appeared a solid planetary defense force field like we see in movies. There was a brighter impact point where it hit “the forcefield” then the bolts shattered and sent a cone of glowing particles skidding like a fistful of sand along the curvature.
With all my years of better than average opportunity Ive never seen anything vaguely like it. I wish I had had a way to record it because Im sure that few have. If I had Im sure that someone would claim I done it with some special effects software, then again, maybe I could have sold it to someone like Icke and become rich as the leader of a new space lizard cult.
Thanks Robert A Cook PE, quite right, sounds like a high altitude detonation of a bolide.
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