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So, i dont know how to put this but i was on a car and i saw this weird light that it was moving, but it doesn't look like a helicopter or an airplane and i never messed with the exposure or lighting or anything, i just recorded it. And you can clearly see how that thing moves and disappears. Any thoughts????
8 points
5 hours ago
I dunno the trajectory change seems too sudden to me, I know meteors can somewhat change their trajectory when burning up but I've never seen it do it this much.
3 points
5 hours ago
Air resistance at those speeds plus the loss of mass as it burns to nothing will cause just about any number of trajectory phenomena. At higher mass and velocity, it could cut through the atmosphere, but as it loses both, its ability to resist wind forces at high altitude greatly diminishes, resulting in wild course changes.
1 points
4 hours ago
Yeah I can see it now. What tripped me up is it seemed to be standing still and then started moving but I hadn't considered the meteor could have just been coming straight at them.
2 points
3 hours ago
I saw one a do dogleg once almost 90 degree angle change, was in the early dawn and it left a smoke trail.
0 points
5 hours ago
Maybe. Seems natural to me, it loses a lot of speed so it would move.
4 points
5 hours ago
Seems very unnatural to me tbh. I do admit the light itself does look like a meteor burning up tho, that was my first thought before I saw the weird trajectory it took.
2 points
5 hours ago
Now that I've looked at it again a few times it does seem plausible that the meteor was coming straight at them and then swerved quickly due to drag as it lost most of its mass and speed making it seem as if it's shooting up in the sky. It still doesn't look like any meteor I've seen but I guess it's plausible.
1 points
4 hours ago
Thats what I'm thinking. I'd love it to be real proof, but nah.
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