On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Derek C Breit <breit_ideas@poyntsource.com> wrote: > High in the Southwest is what looks like an Iridum Flare.. Brilliant blue > white.. I have to look down so I can step off the deck as it is headed > through the Zenith.. When I look back up less than half a second later, it > is bright orange and fragmenting.. I have only seen reentries on video, but > that was my first thought. Apparent speed was right and it "dropped" two > "pieces" off.. This reminds me of an object I saw long ago, when I was a kid in Buffalo NY with a little telescope, watching the sky to the southeast of my house. I think I was looking through the scope at Jupiter rising. Don't recall the year, but it would have had to have been early 1960s. All of a sudden, I sensed a bright white flash out of the corner of my eye and looked toward it. By the time I had adjusted to the glare, the object had broken up into a spray of orange-red particles, much as in your description of what you saw. Then it vanished. The entire display took just a few seconds, and it left me wondering what, if anything!, I saw---likely a bolide, all things considered. There were no reports in the Buffalo papers the next day, so I may have been the only person in the city to have seen it. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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