(meteorobs) Bright Fireball???

[Kim Youmans]

I don't know for sure (just woke up!)  but maybe they just saw a plane?  It 
certainly was a long duration train!

>It is now over an hour since we first saw it and the fireball is out of 
>sight but the smoke trail is still visible.

>we first thought it was an Aeroplane on fire but the duration, lack of 
>noise and the time that the smoke trail took to diperse made us realize it 
>had to be something else.

Lack of noise?

Kim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Lunsford" <lunro.imo.usa at cox.net>
To: "meteorobs at meteorobs.org" < meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 6:15 PM
Subject: (meteorobs) Bright Fireball???


>I recently received this fireball report. This is one I'll keep for awhile. 
>Can you tell why?
>
> Bob Lunsford
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: January 22-23 2007
>
> Time: 10:40
>
> am/pm: PM
>
> Timezone: Other
>
> Other_Timezone: +10
>
> Type_time: Daylight
>
> Location: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
>
> Brightness: =1st quarter moon
>
> Duration: 108000
>
> Color: white
>
> Initial_Azimuth: 180
>
> Initial_Az_mag_or_true: True
>
> Direction_First_Seen: S
>
> Initial_Altitude: 45
>
> Direction_last_seen: S
>
> Final_Altitude: 0
>
> Overhead: Yes
>
> Train: Yes
>
> Train_Duration: 60 and it's still there
>
> Train_Duration_Units: minutes
>
> Train_Color: white
>
> Train_Length: 45
>
> Train_Remarks: It is a smoke trail, very distinct it seemed to have a 
> glow, and dispersed over a long period of time more than an hour.
>
> Terminal_Flash: No
>
> Concurrent_Sound: No
>
> Delayed_Sound: No
>
> General_Remarks: First seen by husband driving home from Ballarat at about 
> 10:30pm we first thought it was an Aeroplane on fire but the duration, 
> lack of noise and the time that the smoke trail took to diperse made us 
> realize it had to be something else. It is now over an hour since we first 
> saw it and the fireball is out of sight but the smoke trail is still 
> visible.
>
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