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20:32 30th August

  • 31-08-2014 06:08AM
    #1
    MiloDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭


    I was walking eastwards towards the Pigeon House lighthouse yesterday evening, still quite bright. Looked up and see a bright white light shoot overhead, faster than an aircraft and kind of like a fire work but it's not shooting up, more over and then it burns out and it's gone.
    Did anybody else notice it and what could it have been?


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  • #2
    macwal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭macwal


    I saw something last night, but I think it was later, maybe after 10:30, and what I saw was a largish orange blob.

    I thought it was a plane at first glance, but the orange light was constant, not flashing. And it was in a part of the sky I wouldn't normally see a plane.

    The movement wasn't smooth like a plane would be either, seemed like it was a bit bumpy, the movement. And it wasn't fast and brief, like a meteor would be.

    Disappeared behind a line of houses, so I only saw it for a second or 2.

    It was moving west to east, was quite low, and the angle I saw it moving at was very shallow. South Dublin area.


  • #3
    Knifey Spoony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭Knifey Spoony


    macwal wrote: »
    I saw something last night, but I think it was later, maybe after 10:30, and what I saw was a largish orange blob.

    I thought it was a plane at first glance, but the orange light was constant, not flashing. And it was in a part of the sky I wouldn't normally see a plane.

    The movement wasn't smooth like a plane would be either, seemed like it was a bit bumpy, the movement. And it wasn't fast and brief, like a meteor would be.

    Disappeared behind a line of houses, so I only saw it for a second or 2.

    It was moving west to east, was quite low, and the angle I saw it moving at was very shallow. South Dublin area.

    More than likely it was a Chinese Lateran.


  • #4
    Popoutman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭Popoutman


    MiloDublin wrote: »
    I was walking eastwards towards the Pigeon House lighthouse yesterday evening, still quite bright. Looked up and see a bright white light shoot overhead, faster than an aircraft and kind of like a fire work but it's not shooting up, more over and then it burns out and it's gone.
    Did anybody else notice it and what could it have been?

    Most likely a decently bright meteor. Haven't heard of any fireballs (brighter than -4 mag - same brightness as Venus) but your description is stereotypical of a bright meteor.


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