(meteorobs) Natural Meteor or Something Else?

[MEM]

I  posted this to another group-- this is a cut an paste of the relative point. 
assumeing we are still discussing the El Paso Light show.

Meteorite Central List  re: El Paso Lights
 Be it remembered that El Paso is very near both Fort Bliss and the White Sands 
Missile Range. Having worked there, I know there are a lot of hush hush 
developmental activities involving upper atmosphere /low orbital vehicles plus 
some advanced non-conventional launch platforms. The flight behavior looks like 
"multiple entry" maneuverable vehicles.  The "bow waves" are hemispherical and 
not cone shaped and they are all uniform in size-- where a meteor or booster 
breakup would have different sized fragments.( This is not a focus aberration)

The New York City UFO sightings were identified as a rather huge cluster of 
silvered, mylar, birthday balloons which got away from the lady on the way to 
the party--vis-a-vis weather balloons or so I heard..

Elton



----- Original Message ----
> From: Thomas Ashcraft <ashcraft at heliotown.com>
> To: Global Meteor Observing Forum <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Sent: Fri, October 22, 2010 11:25:43 AM
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Natural Meteor or Something Else?
> 
> Hi Larry,
> 
> Thanks for your analysis.  Indeed, this particular event  was unusually 
> odd due to slow speed and long travel path.
> 
> For your  further information:
> My video in this case was not a Sentinel capture but  rather 30 frame per 
> second video recorded in iMovie.  I have a separate  Sentinel trigger on 
> the event but it only captured the initial few seconds.  Fortunately I 
> split the video signal into a full time video recorder which  runs 
> constantly through the night at 30 fps so that if the Sentinel misses 
> someting the all-night video will capture it nicely.
> Also I am not using  a mirror system.  West is screen right.
> Also, fragmentation was reported  by eye witnesses.
> 
> It was probably not a plane.
> 
> My only ( still  unresolved )  thought was that this might have been some 
> sort of  rocketry or experimental missile associated with White Sands 
> Missile Range.  I keep this thought as a remote possibility.  But, it was 
> probably a  natural meteor event.
> 
> Clear skies to you,
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
> On  10/22/10 1:08 AM, Larry wrote:
> > This looks to be an aircraft and very  typical of private aircraft strobes
> > which are usually quite different  from commercial aircraft strobes in
> > frequency and pulse  periods.
> >
> > I see these mixed strobe styles here in the middle of  several airports some
> > of which are privately owned.
> >
> > BTW,  The Albuquerque movie image has North up as stated, but West is LEFT
> >  because it is a camera suspended over a convex mirror. So this aircraft  is
> > traveling in the WESTERN  horizon Thomas..... The all-sky  (non-mirror
> > systems) are the ones that reverse East and  West.
> >
> > YCSentinel
> > Yuba City, California
> >
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