(meteorobs) OT -Electrostatic detection of commercial aircraft may preceed fireballs.

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A suspicion that large aircraft have been effecting the electrostatic fair 
weather field was never confirmed before (here) because the change in the 
field was never simultaneous to the aircraft passing my zenith. A growing 
suspicion from past incidences has been it may PRECEED the aircrafts flight 
path. (IF) an aircraft is detected using electrostatic instruments then a 
large bolide(exploding Fireball) should be detectable too.

An aircraft appears to be confirmed during a period of  high atmospheric 
charge of the fair weather electrostatic field tonight. Weather is a bit 
windy with a clear sky.

This aircraft was well EAST of my zenith about 25-30 degrees above the 
horizon. The jet was closer than usual(judging from the landing light beam) 
because of windy conditions tonight on its approach leg to an airport 25 
miles South of Yuba City.

The aircrafts path relative to me is illustrated in an inset camera picture. 
The point in its path the is simultaneous to the electrostatic charge change 
is depicted as a yellow line.

What is most pronounced in the recorded data graph is the smooth rise and 
fall time of the recorded voltage. This is completely "uncharacteristic" of 
the normal pertebations of the cloud charge monitor which is an insensitive 
device with a long time constant. Because of the existing high charge 
conditions, the more sensitive moving charge detector is driven into cutoff. 
It cannot measure negative charges. I have a solution to that that will be 
implemented shortly with a separate inverting amplifier.

The only decent near-zenith Bolide observed here was when rain had shorted 
out the instruments so no confirmation about meteors or fireballs & 
electrophonics(?) has been acquired yet.

Downloadable image of data & picture is:
  http://www.geocities.com/stange34@sbcglobal.net/Jet

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