(meteorobs) A bright skyflash in the Ural region

[Andrei Ol'khovatov]

I agree. That's why I wrote about 'skyflash' and not a 'meteor'.
Anyway it is still interesting as there are no reports about possible 
origin of such tremendous flash.

UPDATE: Just checked the news again and there are suggections from 
regional authorities of a possible old ammunition destruction...It looks 
like a plausible explanation.



On 19.11.2014 12:22, Norman W McLeod III wrote:
> That doesn't even begin to look like a meteor.  Something is lighting 
> the underside of a cloud deck.  And it's similar in color to burning 
> natural gas.  Besides, the brightest meteors are almost always green 
> or blue to me.
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> Norman
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> On 11/18/2014 10:44 AM, Jim Pettit wrote:
>> 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
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