Update: Globe UFO appearing and disappearing

This is a globe UFO update 2010-04-21, not satellite or space trash or meteorite: On August 4, 2009 Phoenix, Arizona around 8:30PM, I was watching the sky for any unusual flying objects. Then I saw something flash bright, white light intermittingly as if here one moment, then gone the next moment. It also appeared to me as if it was skipping the atmosphere. In my opinion, it didn't seem very high up in the sky. In fact, it seem to be much closer to the ground at the level most planes fly on their final approach to land. At times, I wasn't sure where it was at since I couldn't see it but for brief moments. Anyways, I pointed the camera in the general direction the object was heading, and I set the telescopic lens at 70mm zoom, and I took some pictures. The last seven pictures that I took, I set the lens on 300mm zoom. At first I thought it was a meteorite, but I didn't see any signs of a meteorite tail or smoking trail. This object was popping in and out for brief moments. It could be a satellite, but I just don't know. It could also be a UFO too. But I just don't know about that either. The event lasted no more than 1 minute.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Meteorite
• Satellite
• UFO
• Bright
• lights
• Skipping
• atmosphere

[explorerSG1]

That's probably what that object could had been BobChaz: space-junk. I agree, I don't think it was a meteor either. It last too long for it to be a meteor entering our atmosphere; although, the object undoubtly was skipping on our atmosphere.

[BobChaz]

From the size of the spiral, a piece of space junk re-entering and burning up. A meteor would be going too fast and be too dense for that spread.