UFO - mystery solved!

Some background info: I bought a fisheye
CCTV lens from Steve at astroshop.com.au and put it on
a colour camera attached to the outside of my
observatory near Brisbane. It is in an enclosure which
causes some reflections (it has doubled up all the
stars!), and is not exactly brilliantly focussed either -
oh and don't forget the near full moon!

I set the camera to a 2.5 sec exposure and left it
recording all night with the software set to take a
frame every 5 seconds - just for fun.
When I watched it back this morning, there is an
object traversing SE-NW at approx 3:07am (23rd April 2011) very bright
and possibly with a tail. It takes nearly three mins to
go from horizon to horizon and I have checked Calsky
and Heavens above for any known object that
matches, but nothing.

It would have to be very high to be illuminated by the
sun at this time across the whole sky, so that rules out
an aircraft. Going too slow for a meteor...

Any ideas?

Ah-ha! I was out at 3am this morning and spotted another one. This time I could see for real what was causing the streak, and it was a light aircraft of all things. That explains why it was slow and bright!!!

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[astrojunk]

Ah-ha! I was out at 3am this morning and spotted another one. This time I could see for real what was causing the streak, and it was a light aircraft of all things. That explains why it was slow and bright!!!

[MrJohn1966elliott]

Maybe it was satalite, The satalite is slow.

[RodrogerAu]

Very interesting capture, as it can't be identified it must be something we don't know about...? Who knows what the Ameicans are up to...

[RodrogerAu]

@gurueddy

ha ha ha :) 

[gurueddy]

The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.