Weird California sighting

originally posted by: B2StealthBomber
a reply to: DenyTraitors

Yes.

Company's name begins with a "G", right?

hey all

news story with green light seen over east coast.... with video

www.cbc.ca...

could this be the green light? seems like it's on a downward track though?

a reply to: Perfect stranger

It's the perspective. It could be going straight and level but since its going away from the camera it looks like its going down.

a reply to: Perfect stranger

That's a meteor.

2nd

La reply to: Bybyots

Not according to an expert.

Experts say a mysterious ball of light over Montreal last night was not a meteor, raising questions about what that ball of light could be.

The website Lunar Meteorite Hunters reports sightings of the ball of light down the Eastern seaboard, including Quebec, Ontario, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Wyoming and Ohio.

But McGill's meteor expert, Pierre Hudon, says the ball of light could not have been a meteor because when a meteor flies through the sky, the entire sky lights up for several seconds. Hudon says he's received no reports of that happening.

a reply to: Zaphod58

You can see the thing flame out at the end. Or was that an atomic pulse pushing the thing straight in to Montreal?

I'm sorry, I suppose that would be the hinterlands of Quebec, not Montreal.

It had to be some sort of trash burning in, right?

very cool that it is so clear...
THAT never seems to happen.. I've seen similar... but "red" about 1 hour east of Montreal ( far enough from city lights to see some cool things)

Perspective on that is tough to figure

a reply to: Perfect stranger


If i understand past posts right on the "light", past sightings have been more horizontal traversing the horizon ( not sure if that's clear) so is this consistent with what has been spotted? I've had my eyes" up " and think it's a riot i see "it" on the news

still never seen anything in the sky green like that

a reply to: Perfect stranger

I've seen green meteors many times. You hear them refered to as green bolides a lot. They look very similar to the video but usually have fluctuations in brightness as they burn up and break apart in the atmosphere. The green color from meteors is produced by the nickel content mixed in with oxygen as it heats up in the atmosphere.

I spent 15 years in the military and 23 years as an air traffic controller and was never lucky enough to see anything that couldn't be attributed to known phenomena. That being said I am absolutely convinced that there are platforms out there just waiting to be declassified. I now live in Calgary, Canada and spend every evening (when it is not snowing or 20 below) sitting in the back yard for about an hour staring at the night sky. I even sometimes put out a mattress in the backyard and lay there for a few hours. It amazes me that the potentially shortest route to problem areas around the globe from North America is over the North Pole and this part of Canada is fairly sparsely populated, yet I have never seen anything that has really piqued my interest.
Zaph can you get your people who are in the know to give us a little display.

a reply to: Bybyots

Who said anything about an atomic pulse. There are conventional platforms that produce that look.

a reply to: Gurumuka

Hi, my first time here, but followed ATS for many years. Spotted a strange aircraft whilst living in Calgary around Sept 2009.
Sometime around 11am I looked up and spotted an aircraft contrail that was strange. You could not see the plane as it was so high, not even a dot, but the contrail was definately pulsing, sort of pulse, swirl, gap. What was weird was it travelled from horizon to horizon in less than a minute, totally silent, straight as an arrow, and the trail never changed shape once.
It was clear blue skies, not even a hint of haze and my line of sight was clear all the way.
I, like the rest of us, have witnessed thousands of aircraft contrails, and a few obvious military, but have never seen this before or again. Now I tried to ring my daughter who was shopping downtown to look up and witness it, but before I could get through the whole event was over, including the contrail which seemed strange. Yes, my phone did have a camera, but like an idiot, I was so amazed my mouth was ajar and no photo. I cant put into words how fast this craft was travelling ( and yes, it was a craft, not a meteor or the likes ) but it was blistering across the sky and not commercial. Direction was something like NE to SW. I posted this in another aircraft related thread a while back, but after reading this thread maybe it belongs here

a reply to: Perfect stranger

That definitely was not a meteor. Did we just see the Green Lady?

a reply to: Zaphod58

Who said anything about an atomic pulse.

You're right, that was totally out of line.



But this Canuck right here...

But Sebastien Giguere, scientific and education coordinator for the Mont-Mégantic Observatory AstroLab, argues otherwise.

Giguere told TVA News that the light resembled a shooting star or a small meteor, adding that its greenish tint was due to the presence of magnesium.

According to Giguere, shooting stars are small stones from space that burn up when they come into contact with the Earth's atmosphere.

www.theweathernetwork.com...

...disagrees with your Canuck.

a reply to: Bybyots

And the signature matches a certain aircraft a lot better than it does a meteor.

a reply to: Zaphod58

And the signature matches a certain aircraft a lot better than it does a meteor.

Which one, Zaphod?

a reply to: Bybyots

The one talked about in this thread.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Ah, okay.

So, are you now going to begin to appropriate every siting of a green meteorite or bolide and attribute it to this mystery plane?

a reply to: Bybyots

There have been a lot that were meteors. There have been a number that weren't. No one has even suggested that all green lights were her, until you decided to just now.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Look Z,

You are trying to convince me that you can tell the difference between a regular green meteorite and the signature of some advance yet unknown advanced propulsion system from a news video you've seen on the web.

Alright man. I just don't know what to say anymore. Maybe more coffee and I'll try to understand from another angle. Or something.