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(meteorobs) Re: Fireball Spotted Over Norway?

Dear All,

Did anybody from Norway and/or "near-Norway" countries have any info on the
object/phenomenon seen (below)?

Best wishes,
Andrei Ol'khovatov
Russia, Moscow

-----Исходное сообщение-----
От: Robert Verish <bolidechaser@yahoo.com>
Кому: meteorobs@atmob.org <meteorobs@atmob.org>
Дата: 22 ноября 2002 г. 21:35
Тема: (meteorobs) Fireball Spotted Over Norway?


>"Solberg noticed the object with a long, bright tail."
>
>
>"The entire episode lasted about EIGHT minutes, with
>three minutes of it captured on tape, before the
>unidentified flying object disappeared from view."
>
>-- very curious...
>
>I would be very interested in knowing what the
>atmospheric conditions were at that time of day.
>Maybe there was a thin veil of ice crystals high aloft
>that formed a halo effect from a military aircraft
>with its approach lights turned on?  But, what about
>the "long, bright tail?"
>
>Would love to see the video...
>
>Bob V.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Baalke [mailto:baalke@zagami.jpl.nasadot gov]
>Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:56 AM
>To: robert.verish@jpl.nasadot gov
>Subject: Fireball Spotted Over Norway?
>
>
>http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=442072
>
>
>'UFO' spotted over Asker
>Aftenpoften (Norway)
>November 22, 2002
>
>Helene Solberg glanced out her window on a dark wintry
>afternoon earlier this week and saw something she
>won't soon forget. Luckily, her family's video camera
>was close at hand.
>
>Solberg, who lives in a village with the same name in
>Asker, west of Oslo, first called her husband while
>marveling at the comet-like flying object that soared
>through the late afternoon sky.
>
>It was just after 2pm, when dusk already starts
>settling over southern Norway at this tiime of year,
>when Solberg noticed the object with a long, bright
>tail. She excitedly called her husband Stig Solberg,
>who reminded her that their video camera was lying on
>a table in the living room.
>Just the night before, the couple had tried to capture
>video of the Leonid meteor shower.
>
>Helene Solberg then grabbed the video camera and
>started shooting. The entire episode lasted about
>eight minutes, with three minutes of it captured on
>tape, before the unidentified flying object
>disappeared from view.
>
>"Can I explain what it was? Absolutely not," Stig
>Solheim told Aftenposten's Internet edition Thursday
>night after sharing the video.
>
>He said he determined that the comet-like object came
>out of the west and disappeared to the south. He also
>sent the video to the astrophysics department at the
>University of Oslo, where a professor thought the
>object MIGHT have been a plane.
>
>Solheim disagrees. "It absolutely did not look like a
>plane," he said.
>"When we look out the window in the other direction,
>we sometimes see planes. But we have never seen a
>plane in the direction where my wife was filming."
>------------- End of Original Message --------------
>
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