(meteorobs) Sighting long Island New York

[KDConod]

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From: "duckie3x" <Duckie3X at aol.com>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 7:53 PM
Subject: (meteorobs) Sighting long Island New York


> Hello Everyone
>
> I live in Long Island New York and this evening around 7:50 pm in the 
> southwest sky there were 6 bright red looked like fireballs/or fourth of 
> July fireworks. They were brilliant and they took about 2 minutes to 
> descend.
>
> I am wondering if anyone would know what these objects were? Did anyone 
> else witness this event.
>
> Thanks for your help, have a beautiful weekend.

2 minutes is a long time for something to descend - certainly not meteor related, doesn't sound like space junk either...perhaps some kind of signal flare? Coast Guard or military training?

Kevin Conod
kdconod at yahoo.com