(meteorobs) A bright skyflash in the Ural region

Jim Pettit jimpettit at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 10:44:15 EST 2014


LiveLeak has a different video of the event. I agree that it's probably not
a meteor, given the apparent lack of lateral movement, and the decay which
seems more in line with a ground-based explosion than a trailing off after
a terminal flash...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bf3_1416311834

--Jim

On Tuesday, November 18, 2014, Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek at online.nl>
wrote:

> Andrei Ol'khovatov schreef op 18-11-2014 16:12:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > There was a skyflash some days ago (the last week-end?) seen in the
> > region of the city of Ekaterinburg, Russia (official name - the
> > Sverdlovsk' region).
> > Not much info:
> > 1) a news story (in Russian):
> > http://urfo.org/ekb/518345.html/print/
> > 2) video:
> > Страшная вспышка в небе <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOwTSzjC6Ew>
>
>
> Hmmm. I doubt this one is a meteor.
>
>  From the video, it appears that the person shooting it was already
> starting to
> pay attention well before the peak event. In the video, you can see a
> pulsating
> red glow in a stationary position well before it becomes very bright, the
> latter
> only happening 18 seconds in the video. The bright peak, of several seconds
> duration, also seems to be quite stationary. So the event, whatever it
> was, was
> already going on for at least 18 seconds, and it does not seem to be moving
> during that time.
>
> My guess this is something originating on Earth. To me, it looks like a
> fire or
> series of small explosions and subsequent large explosion or flash fire
> reflecting on a cloud deck. The Russian article (in Google translation)
> seems to
> suggest there is a major chemical plant nearby? I wonder if any explosions
> were
> heard some tens of seconds after the movie ends.
>
> - Marco
>
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