WTF was this??? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Goose · 09-20-2009, 06:42 AM

Seen something like that last night right around that time. I thought it was a burning star, there was a huge pear shaped ball of smoke left in the sky...went for the camra but it was to late

Raven · 09-20-2009, 06:58 AM

spence · 09-20-2009, 09:01 AM

That would be it. I wonder what the trajectory was, it must have been very high up...

-spence

spence · 09-20-2009, 09:04 AM

173 miles! That sucker must have been moving...

NASA - Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Using NASA Sounding Rocket

-spence

JohnR · 09-20-2009, 09:19 AM

This was before the Block Island fireworks, right

? Saw an interesting red ball of light from the south later on, wonder if it was related. It was high and slowly drifting (not a flare). Guess I missed the white light you are talking about

spence · 09-20-2009, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnR

This was before the Block Island fireworks, right

? Saw an interesting red ball of light from the south later on, wonder if it was related. It was high and slowly drifting (not a flare). Guess I missed the white light you are talking about

I believe it was after the fireworks, we saw these as well.

You couldn't have missed the plume, now that we know the altitude it must have been truly gigantic.

What gets me is how bright it was, like a billion candle power spot light was pointed downward. It must have been the last stage of the rocket illuminating the entire plume...but it was a very pure white.

-spence