(meteorobs) possible fireball in Portugal

[Paulo Heleno]

Hello Marco and all:

The question of why the airforce did not launched an
observing/interception activity crossed my mind from the first days.
I sent an email to the airforce,asking this,and, in more general
terms,what is the operational standard procedure in cases like this.
As far as the picture is concern, that photogram its the better view of
the object in all the video

Paulo

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Marco Langbroek wrote:

> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:25:03 +0200
> From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl>
> Reply-To: Global Meteor Observing Forum <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> To: Global Meteor Observing Forum <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) possible fireball in Portugal
>
> Hello Tony and others,
>
> There is a picture (and thanks to Jose Campos for pointing me to it!)
> apparently showing the object on
> http://sic.sapo.pt/index.php?article=873&visual=3&area_id=5
>
> Unfortunately the vido refuses to load when I try.
>
> The picture shows a comet-like object; which to me is strongly reminiscent
> of the pictures I have seen of manouvring satellites.
> However, that does not explain the radar detections pointing to something
> with aircraft speeds & altitudes.
>
> If this picture indeed shows the object, then the Iridium flare hypothesis
> clearly is out of the question too.
>
> - Marco
>
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