2004 December 7
Posted on 12/07/2004 6:42:41 PM PST by ckilmer
Astronomy Picture of the Day
2004 December 7
A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia Credit & Copyright: Wayne Pryde Explanation: Meteor experts don't think it's a meteor. Atmospheric scientists don't think it's lightning. The photographer insists that the streak and flash on the above image has not been created digitally. So what is it? Nobody is sure. APOD's editors do not claim to know - one purpose of posting this image is to mine the eclectic brain trust of APOD's readers to help see if some unusual phenomenon was caught serendipitously. The strange features were captured on a series of images intended to monitor cloud changes in the background. Images taken just before and after the above frame show no streak or flash. The light pole near the flash has been inspected and does not show any damage, although the light inside was not working. If you think you know what is going on, instead of sending us email please participate in an online discussion. If a convincing argument or consensus is reached, the answer will be posted on APOD at a later date.
go figure
Zot?
Preparing tinfoil hat.
This was posted before and is supposed to be a picture of a meteor stricking the lamp post.
Allow me...
I've seen a streak like that before. It was coming down at a steep angle going the opposite direction from a similar white streak. Also, it was near water just before it started raining on a very cloudy day.
a micrometeorite could cause the vapor trail and the bright flash of impact.
That was the initial opinion on this event and nothing else has disproved that theory.
Tin Hats? this would have blown right through a skull!
Uh, er, umm, is it possibly an alien spacecraft? Or, perhaps a Chinese missle on a test flight? Oh, I know! It is a bit of junk from a Russkie space platform disintegrating . . . WHOOMP!
It's a laser blast from the mother ship!
Smoke is curling up from the base of the light pole. Shooting rockets from a boat?
Here is the link to a CLEAR picture of this event
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0412/strange_pryde_big.jpg
I would put in a theory of a laser coming down after seeing this photo with the much more obvious smoke stream off the right of the pole! Could be vaporized metal...or it could simply be a camera lens false image from the flash at the pole.
There HAS to be some evidence at the point of impact - someone is NOT talking.
There is no point of impact.... You can plainly see from the photo that it struck water. Great shot of a micrometiorite.
Yeah, those shown on your link ARE "chemtrails" but the "chem" is H2O. Bad stuff. If you fall in a lake of it, you can drown! Or if a 50 lb block of the frozen form hits you it the head, it can kill you. Or the crystal form of it can cover the streets and make them so slippery, you skid into a telephone pole. Dead!
Airborne (or possibly space borne) energy gun test proving its accuracy and lethality by taking a precision shot at a street light and vaporizing it.
Don't tell the Chinese or North Koreans, they'll be really upset about this.
Looks like the shadow of a jet trail, as seen when the trail obscures the sun, and generates a planar shadow that appears as a line when viewed from within the plane of the shadow. But I can't tell where the sun is, so who knows?
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