Shooting star

[crazy about cars]

alien spaceship

[St. Anger]

Yup, saw it here too. (South West Scotland, Ayrshire)

[randomgary]

i caught it on video

http://youtu.be/-RzsoYpt8WE

[crazy about cars]

the government can't hide it from us any longer... 2012 - the beginning of the end.

[Killer2005]

randomgary said:

i caught it on video

http://youtu.be/-RzsoYpt8WE

Thats not a bad video

[Rowan138]

i would suspect it is one of many redundant satellites has decayed out of its parking orbit and has re-entered the atmosphere, some of those old satellites are the size of small cars and can weigh several tons!!

[Eric Mc]

Looks far more like a satellite or rocket stage re-entering. Too slow to be a meteor. If you look at the videos of the Columbia accident, the overall speed of this object looks to be of the same order.

[Johnnytheboy]

I saw something like this over Dorset about twenty years ago, but lower and fast moving. Only lasted a few seconds but close enough to see it was an object on fire.

[Cobnapint]

Rowan138 said:

i would suspect it is one of many redundant satellites has decayed out of its parking orbit and has re-entered the atmosphere, some of those old satellites are the size of small cars and can weigh several tons!!

Quite right. Way too slow for a meteor.

I guess several people might be waking up this morning to find pieces of twisted satellite embeded in their back garden or roof tiles.

It was either that or Buzz Lightyear filming a remake of the opening sequence to Toy Story 2. TOOOO INFINIDY ....

[Absentia]

Zwolf said:

Loads last night pretty cool.

[rohrl]

Johnnytheboy said:

I saw something like this over Dorset about twenty years ago, but lower and fast moving. Only lasted a few seconds but close enough to see it was an object on fire.

I saw that from South Wales. It was 1993 I think.

[Swifty Stig]

Spotted this last night in Peterhead Scotland when driving with my Fiancee. She pointed it out and im not afraid to admit it but it really unsettled and freaked me out. Made my blood run cold but what an awesome sight! Really slow moving and dead straight too. Looked like something coming down to land. We went looking for somewhere with no light pollution and my god the amount of stars was unreal. Seen a couple of shooting stars but not that slow Behemoth again!

[Grenoble]

Given it was seen over at least 700 miles, I'm guessing very high, very shallow re-entry angle?

[lazyitus]

Swifty Stig said:

im not afraid to admit it but it really unsettled and freaked me out.

For sure. Made me feel very small and humble stood at my back door on little planet earth.

[lazyitus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19683687

"[The meteor was] probably 80 miles up or so, high up, moving very fast, actually, 18,000 miles an hour, probably, at least."

Now THAT'S close!

[Eric Mc]

A re-ntering piece of orbiting space debris will start to burn up at around that height and will initially be travelling at just under 17,500 mph.

[Rowan138]

http://www.aerospace.org/cords/reentry-predictions...
could very well have been this

[TTmonkey]

Not sure how anyone can say it was moving too slowly for Meteor.....? If it was a 1000 times brighter than most meteors (shooting stars) then it could be a lot further away, and therefore travelling a lot faster?

[nellyleelephant]

TTmonkey said:

Not sure how anyone can say it was moving too slowly for Meteor.....? If it was a 1000 times brighter than most meteors (shooting stars) then it could be a lot further away, and therefore travelling a lot faster?

You would only see a meteor if it was burning up on entry, looking at the videos, what ever it was, it was clearly something burning up and breaking apart. So, it can't have been that far away as it would just have carried on past us un-noticed.

[TTmonkey]

nellyleelephant said:

You would only see a meteor if it was burning up on entry, looking at the videos, what ever it was, it was clearly something burning up and breaking apart. So, it can't have been that far away as it would just have carried on past us un-noticed.

No, I mean its clearly in the atmosphere, it could just be a long way away, it was near the horizon, yes?

If it was directly overhead then it would be what, 10 miles away... if it was way out over the horizon it could be 100 off mile away or more.....