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(meteorobs) Re: Fireball Spotted Over Norway?

Dear All,

Alan Pickup and Harro Zimmer don't find "appropriate" re-entry. Alan Pickup
is sure that it was an aircraft contrail.  I think that it is the most
plausible explanation, as it also
explains absence of other reports of such rather "spectacular object".  Also
there was some upsurge/peak in cloudiness in the evening, which hints on
rather high moisture at the altitude.
I think that unless some "opposing" info appears, the explanation is the
most likely one.

Best wishes,
Andrei Ol'khovatov
Russia, Moscow

-----Исходное сообщение-----
От: Andrei Ol'khovatov <olkhov@mail.ru>
Кому: meteorobs@atmob.org <meteorobs@atmob.org>
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Дата: 23 ноября 2002 г. 12:50
Тема: (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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