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(meteorobs) Re: Fireball Spotted Over Norway?

The sighting over Oslo has been rather officially confirmed as an airplane contrail illuminated by the setting sun. A radar in Sweden evidently saw an airplane at the correct position/time.
The trail lasted several minutes, but didn't curl like ordinary meteor trails. The video images were not very sharp though, so it was hard to say very much from them.

Lars Trygve Heen
Norwegian Meteor Section

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrei Ol'khovatov [mailto:olkhov@mail.ru]
Sent: 23. november 2002 15:36
To: meteorobs@atmob.org
Cc: imo-news@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IMO-News] 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>
Копия: imo-news@yahoogroups.com <imo-news@yahoogroups.com>
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)?
>
...some text removed



>>-----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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