Unexplained sights: fireballs, satellites?

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:19 pm

Following up on Willie's and Jean-Yves posts, you can post unexplained or interesting phenomena sighted before by you here, and we'll see if the combined experience of Singastro can help explain them.

As a primer, check out this article: 'Photo of Fiery Object Mystifies Scientists'

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/m ... 31013.html

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:26 pm

To start things of, there was this flickering orange point I saw on Sept 3rd.
It doesn't seem to be the thing Willie saw, nor is it a weather balloon. I'm sstill not sure what it was.

Chris

The orginal yahoogroups post

Date: Wed Sep 3, 2003 8:24 pm
Subject: fire in the sky

Did anyone happen to be looking up at the sky at exactly 804pm this
evening?

I was driving home and happened to be looking out for mars when
instead I spotted a bright red object that looked like mars but was
intermittantly going from very bright to a dim orange glow. It looked
exactly like it was on fire.

I quickly parked my car and ran back to the vantage point when I saw
it set roughly north. When I first spotted it, it was roughly north-
northeast, about 25deg alt. (slightly lower than mars).It moved
exactly like a satellite when i saw it set, and it still looked like
it was burning up.

Can someone confirm this or tell me what it might be?

Terry · Post by **Terry** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:42 pm

Last week I just saw a display of strange mof light on the red sky at about 11pm+. At first, I thought the light came from the vehicles on the road, but it was not true. The light seem to be coming from a huge torchlight or a lighthouse. It shines from the south to the east-west direction and disappear after a few minutes, but reappear a few minutes later. The light is white but it was not a lightning. I guess that the strange light might be from the light of the lightning distance away from the south. By the way, I live in Tampines. What do you have any idea what the light was? :?

Post by **acc** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:56 pm

Here's an account of a strange object we observed during a CSN session earlier this year...

From: "acc" <acchien@s...>
Date: Sun Apr 27, 2003 3:09 pm
Subject: UFO at last night Observation at Dempsey?

Hi all
I have never seen anything like that before in all my observing.
Satellites appear like a moving point of light when observed through a
telescope, while this object has a sizeable and distintive rectangular
shape. Thought I saw it wobble constantly from side to side but this was
not observed by the rest. Anyway, it can't be a satellite cause we observed
it at 1.30am in the morning when the sun is too long gone. It was moving
much too slowly to be metorite either. Maybe a piece of space junk? But
with the sun gone, how could we have spotted it?

David, I think the military jet you observed flying at low altitude over
several occasions was actually a string of commercial jets on their take-off
route from Changi.

Anyway, it was a really big crowd at Dempsey last nite and after such a
long hiatus, we saw a number of nice objects making their first appearance
this observing season. These include objects such as the lagoon/trifid
nebula in Sagittarious and M4/6/7 & NGC6231 (rival to the jewel box) in
Scorpious. Matthew, Chuang Yee and I stayed till about 3am and we manage to
see the double-double and the ring nebula. The later took quite a while to
locate due to the light pollution but the effort was quite worth it. Looks
like an annular puff of smoke at high magnification through the portaball.
nice

cc

-----Original Message-----
From: David Lian [mailto:ableone829@y...]
Sent: 27 April 2003 09:18
To: singastro@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [singastro] Re:UFO at last night Observation at Dempsey?

Hi,
Last night's observation was well attended.(About 10
scopes were present)
At about 1.30am in this morning, Chee Chien saw an
interesting object in his Porta.Everybody took turns
to view. From my objection, the object was appeared
sizable enlongated shape & dark brownish colour
without any flash or light.It seem to like glidng
through at contstant speed across from "Spout of
Teapot" towards the "sting of Scorpius".The speed is
not fast within earth atmosphere hence we could catch
on scope for maybe about a or two minutes.CC reckon
that it wobbled from from side to side.
Did we see something that we should not see?By the
way,a miltary jet(size of commercial plane) was flying
over Dempsey at various times at low altitude earlier
in the night.It does not look like weather balloon
either.
May be it ET. It looks like we are not alone.
Witness to above event: ACC,Vincent

Submitted by
D Lian
ps: Sorry for those who went back early, you missed
the grand finale.

Post by **Airconvent** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 1:06 am

hi cc,
as i have pointed out also then, it is most likely the re-entry disintegration of a french satellite that was predicted to enter the atmposphere around that time...
good thing we managed to catch it!

rich