magnesium flare or meteor over 93 in Campton tonight ?

[Chip]

Anyone else see the magnesium flare or meteor over 93 in Campton tonight ?
about 8:47pm.

 

[mirabela]

VT Air National Guard has been doing night exercises. Sonic booms over the Northeast Kingdom around that time or a little later, maybe related ...

 

[Ken MacGray]

I often see meteorites / debris burning up in the atmosphere on my drives back to MA. Pretty neat.

 

[peakbagger]

I think Mirabela is probably right, lots of military aircraft tearing all over the place last evening up in the north country.

 

[DougPaul]

Missile counter-measure flares look like a string of lights dropped from an aircraft flight path at a rate of one to several per second. (They are dropped from an aircraft to distract a missile's IR target tracker.) They are pretty distinctive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flare_(countermeasure)

Iridium (satellite) flares appear as a single stationary flash lasting up to 20 or so seconds. They are caused by sunlight reflecting off a flat mirror-like antenna and can be bright enough to be visible during the daytime. They are predictable--you can look up forecasts for your area. Other satellites can also flare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare
http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO...=&bih=&q=iridium+flare&gbv=1&oq=iridium+flare.

Other possibilities are a meteor, a satellite, or a high altitude aircraft all of which move along straight paths.

Doug

 

[jfb]

VT Air National Guard has been doing night exercises. Sonic booms over the Northeast Kingdom around that time or a little later, maybe related ...

Sonic booms are related to firing up afterburners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEdsVndIwk

 

[Hillwalker]

Better watch yourselves driving down I-93 around Franconia Notch. Lights in the sky.

http://www.historicmysteries.com/betty-and-barney-hill-abduction/

Or in the case of Barney. Better watch your a++!

 

[Remix]

Better watch yourselves driving down I-93 around Franconia Notch. Lights in the sky.

http://www.historicmysteries.com/betty-and-barney-hill-abduction/

Or in the case of Barney. Better watch your a++!

He probably got a pass because he was not driving a pickup.

 

[erugs]

Last year we saw a candle lantern in flight around that area. A short while later, a Statey at a high rate of speed heading in that direction while we were traveling in the other.