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Uploaded by on Nov 11, 2007

This is part of a biased UFO documentary from the Discovery Science channel. I've included some of it because the rest was stupid propaganda.

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  • @amcnea

    How far away from the earth do you have to be to see something bounce off the atomsphere? i'm assuming alot higher than an airplane flies.

  • i do think some of this lights people see in the sky are glowing embers

    from debris that exploaded and burnt when it enter the atmophere but thay just burn all the way intel it burned up just like when you light a peice of paper on fire and let it burn or smoke a cigerette it dose not shoot back up into space

  • He also said it lit up the cockpit and he thought air traffic control had put another flight at the same altitude as him. A person would assume it was close to him at 37,00 feet. Whatever though. This is one of the problems with this type of stuff. It is left up to personal interpretation.

  • The plane was at 37,000 feet. They never said at what altitude the object was at. The guy said the object seemed close, and was traveling at thousands of miles per hour.

  • I'm fully aware of why an object burns up. What I'm saying is if something gets to 37,000 feet it is either flying of falling. It isn't going back up without help of some kind. The edge of space is somewhere around 100,000 feet. If it bounces off the atmosphere it's going to do it way before 37,000 feet.

  • The object burns up because of friction with the air. If an objects trajectory is to shallow then it will bounce of the air (kinda like a stone bouncing off the top of water, when you skip a stone).

    As for 37000 feet, I don't know how thick the atmosphere is at that elevation. If it has already gotten thick, then I would have expected the object to have bounced off before that. If that is the area where it starts to get thick, then that is the area I would expect objects to bounce off at.

  • If space debris gets to 37000 feet it isn't going back up. It pretty much should be burning up or completely burned up if that's what it is, wouldn't you think?

  • "When does space debris go back up?"

    When it bounces off the atmosphere. There are three things that something can do when entering the atmosphere. 1) Fall to earth, 2) burn up, and 3) bounce off.

    An object bounces off when it's trajectory is to shallow. It can burn in the atmosphere while this is happening, which can produce light. Not saying this is what happened, but the guy on the video asked the question.

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