Great balls of fire !!!

AVGWarhawk · 12-07-10, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

That is the setting sunlight striking the contrail of a large twin engined jet aircraft, the sunlight in this scenario is refracting off the thickest and most humidified portion of the contrail as it leaves the engine and trails several hundred ft behind the aircraft. As the humidity of the contrail dissipates, less light is refracted.

Another airplane exhibiting the same phenomenon is visible to the right heading in another direction midway through the vid.

I've seen this happen hundreds and really probably thousands of times in my aviation career.

its nothing to get excited about.

No way. Those are UFO's for sure.

krashkart · 12-07-10, 09:55 PM

Not UFO's. A top-secret government project to make us look up in the sky and say, "Holy crawdads!! Lookit that!"

Platapus · 12-07-10, 09:58 PM

The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

Oh look at the cooleo pen!

Love that movie!

12-07-10, 09:58 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,398 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus. Oh look at the cooleo pen! Love that movie! __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

12-07-10, 09:55 PM	#2
krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	Not UFO's. A top-secret government project to make us look up in the sky and say, "Holy crawdads!! Lookit that!"