[meteorite-list] Sky detonation video

[GeoZay at aol.com]

>>Yesterday I viewed a video on youtube that is utterly perplexing as  to 
what 
is being videod.

At first you seem to be viewing a stationary  object in the sky near Venus, 
through a high powered lens or telescope, it  is motionless for 10 - 15 
seconds, then, suddenly explodes, and debris falls  to Earth for quite a 
while.

??

Any guesses as to what it might  be folks?<<
 
Well...it looks like to me to be something with a relatively slow  
speed...roughly that of a balloon for example. It could be mostly coming or  going away 
from the observer. If it's at a distance...like a quarter mile or  more, and 
moving any direction, it will still appear near motionless for the 10  or 15 
seconds of viewing. When it exploded, the pieces didn't appear to have any  
appreciable velocity other than what a falling object would have under the  
influence of gravity. Don't know what it was, but my gut is leaning towards it  
being a prank. A balloon carrying a bright object of some kind perhaps? The  
balloon could have been filled with hydrogen or natural gas and designed (or  
accidentally) to ignite at some point. It doesn't have the appearance to me  to be 
something I'd get overly concerned with...unless it was a combustible over  a 
dry brushy area.
George Zay




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