(meteorobs) Possible daylight fireball caught on camera overMiddlesex, UK 14/04/10

[Marco Langbroek]

Op 15-4-2010 01:12, Meteorites USA schreef:
> Oh yeah... this is a obvious one... It's simply too fast to be a plane.
> Even a very close one.
>
> Regards,
> Eric


- sigh - .......

What I don't understand is that in this time and age, people still do not 
recognize aircraft and aircraft contrails for what they are. Time and time again 
we see footage of these passed off as "fireballs".

I really don't understand why we have to have long discussions with all kinds of 
post-hoc accomodative arguments (about why there is no trail visible etc., even 
to the point of asserting that there was one even though it is not visible!), 
when with one look at the footage it is clear that it shows an aircraft (with 
accompanying engine noise on the audio track!).

Aircraft are ubiquitous, compared to daylight fireballs. Daylight fireballs 
don't make jet engine noises. 1 + 1 = 2 and if it quacks like an aircraft, it is 
an aircraft.

- Marco

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Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek
Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)

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