So around 5:35am today, a hair west of NYC, I was treated to the sight of something strange, way way up high... and I don't think it was a meteor.
It came in from 15 degrees on the compass.
The thing appeared on the horizon and went from a bright dot out there to to almost directly overhead. It semed to be glowing a flickering bright
orange... as it approached, the whole thing looked to be on fire, flickering, with a slight trail... not unlike a meteor. It
seemed
stratospheric compared to the other air traffic for the big 3 and titorboro... way up above the typical traffic and moving much much faster.
This first leg to top dead center took maybe 8-10 seconds and was at a constant speed. Fast enough and high enough to pick it out of typical air
traffic, and get distracted and follow it mid conversation.
It passed almost perfectly overhead, maybe a hair or two southwest of me. It was JUST after it passed overhead... maybe 5-10 degrees off from top
dead "up" (and probably just as it reached open ocean past staten island) when things got interesting... the orange light turned off all at once like
the flame was snuffed out.
Maybe 1/10th... maybe 1/5th of a second later, the green turned on. I swear there was definitly a pitch black blink sized moment in between.
The second half of the sky took MAYBE a second and a half total to traverse.
It took off like it had been standing still.
Weird thing is, It didn't really seem like the thing accelerated... Like it came in at one constant speed, then, fired up engine B and was just
instantly traveling 8-10x faster than a millisecond before, but also at a constant speed.
I think its because it was overhead... and still pulling HARD on its way out that seemed constant to me as it got further and further away. A bit
mindbending.
I've never seen anything like that. But ive read about it here.
If there's a pilot... I don't know how the pilots not a fine paste right now.
It headed out of sight right around 200-205 degrees on the compass.
That second half of the sky; the back had what looked like a small, kinda dim-and-transparent green exhaust flame with an even brighter, thinner,
solid looking, collimated, luminous green trail protruding through it that became quite long, lingering... it didnt spread at all, but faded out
gradually, becoming a dull glow before fading to black.
I don't think it's zip fuel. I don't think it's conventional at all. The exhaust is all wrong, and i swear it just doesn't accelerate 'right.'
Gonna be watching the international news the next few days carefully.
edit on 1-10-2023 by TheNothingth because: Grammar, clarity, and the
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