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WHAT IS HITTING EARTH? Interstellar Debris or Comet Fragments?
Added:So, I've been tracking comets, asteroids, fireballs in the sky for a while. These shooting stars are now becoming more and more prominent. Not only the number of times that we are seeing in the sky increased, their size increased, the streak, the way they come in. They are not coming vertical.
They're also coming like horizontal in the sky, flying a lot longer.
And now we are seeing something different, something more mysterious.
This is very rare what we are seeing now.
I have noticed a fireball that is coming in in the sky really fast creating this metallic signature almost like a smoking trail but it's not a smoke trail. It's like metallic vapor like ionized signature that is happening up in the upper atmosphere and it stays longer. I mean usually the shooting star trail will not last very long. This one is lasting for minutes which is very odd. So that means they are coming in lot more faster and they are also exploding because of that speed faster creating brightness that is going to outshine the moon right next to a full moon. These are becoming like outshining very big. I I'll show you all that videos. This is Ray. I make all these videos. If you are interested please subscribe. Give me that early like. So, I put all my research on radiance.com.
You can actually go there. I'll I'll put this link. This is the Tucson fireball on July 3rd. Today is July 18th. So, this happened like 15 days ago. They were not only able to see that in Arizona, but they were able to see in Texas as well. Like the on the El Paso side, they were able to see that. So this is happening in the morning time like 3:00 in the morning. So not many people may have seen what is going on here. So this came in uh disappeared within like 1 minute and that's it gone.
So not many people early morning have reported only like nine witnesses reports. That's what we are seeing right now.
So the the event was reported on the AMS website.
Let me show you the video that came in.
So this is the video that came in and I was looking at the fireball activity that came in. This is on July 3rd.
And when you see the fireball coming in, this is on July 3rd morning 343 07 3 in the morning 43 minutes and 07 seconds. And right now you are seeing the fireball there. Let me fast forward a little bit. This is still 07. The second did not go away.
I'm fast forwarding. It is still 07.
I'll show you the timestamps. I went down the frames to see right now you're seeing this one is going almost size of a full moon.
Actually moon is over there and this is overshining the moon and it more more brighter and it is going down. It is still 07.
Let me go back a little bit and show you what's going on here. You see the time stamp right here.
This is when it started. This is 3437.
I'm really surprised by the speed it is coming in. I even measured the speed of at least approximately how much faster it is coming in. 34307 and you're still seeing the comet is coming in. The second did not pass yet and you are still seeing 07.
Still 07.
07.
It got brighter.
It exploded and it is getting dimmer now.
08 now. So pretty much the entire event the streak of the event that is coming in exploding outshining the moon everything happened under that subsecond millisecond time frame and let me play this video for you so you will see how fast this event happened.
Okay, you are still seeing that sub0c.
You see that? I'll try one more time.
I'll show you the time it is coming in.
So let me show you another important piece that is going on here.
So let me go back and play this again.
When the fireball is coming in, it started at 343 exploded. This is 34309 right now as we speak. Right? And that thing continued 3:43 17. You can still see the smoking trail there continuing and we are still at 343.
It went on and on.
Even the man tired and like fast forwarded it. Now it is at 3:45 3:46.
So if I go back in time, pretty much you are looking at the smoke trail almost was gone around 3:45, the beginning of 3:45. This is when it goes away. So you can still see all that. It fell down. Actually, you know, if if you can look at the smoke trail, you know, probably where the piece of the asteroid probably landed.
It's still Look at all that. I'm doing it in reverse. You can still see that.
So, let me zoom in here for a second. So this is the trail that you are seeing in the other picture in vertical shape.
This is not a smoking trail. This is the ionized metal vapor. It's a chemical reaction that is going on in the upper atmosphere because of the velocity of the object that is coming in whether it is a cometary debris or piece of an asteroid or you know whatever this is coming in is coming in at higher speed and then it creates a signature there because of that speed not only it creates a signature but it explodes within that sub millisecond.
and it is gone.
Luckily, these are small. If they are big, they will become like the one that we saw in Boston. So, in Boston, the weather was not good. Otherwise, we would have seen this metallic vapor.
They call this there is a term for this.
It is called persistent train. The name of this trail is not smoking trail. It is called persistent train. it stays on persistent train. So that's the name for this that is called and these persistent trains are very rare.
So this is the AMS entry that was reported. So people from El Paso, Texas.
This is next to Mexico. The city is called Suda Zores Wares. I believe it's next to El Paso. they were able to record this and they and people here are able to rep report it. This was like so early in the morning on a Friday July 3rd because of the time maybe only like nine reports came in.
This is July 3rd right? So yeah, this is the one Arizona and Texas.
Yeah. So couple of people reported sound as well. So my thought process was if those people reporting sound and if those if this event is now across two states I know this is not as big as Boston event. How come there is no entry in the center for nearear objects?
I could not find an entry there.
There is a satellite called ghost satellite which is the geostationary satellite almost like our GPS satellites and they stay up in the sky and tracking what's happening on the earth. So if there is a thunder strike or if something comes in and explodes they track for various wide variety of reasons.
So those ghost satellites images are very important. So I was able to download those images for the same date which is July 3rd. And sure enough even though there is no senior century you're seeing this strike is because of that reason. This could very well be a thunder strike as well. I was trying to eliminate.
What is so interesting is this ghost satellite only keeps archive of like every 5 seconds.
So when I was looking at these images at 10:41 I see a strike and then if I go back to 10 36 there is no strike.
10:41 there is and then 10:46 there is no strike. This entire event is happening like in one split second and we don't have images that are in between.
So we are missing some of these events that are really big because these are happening within like a fraction of a second and we are not getting that. I wanted to illuminate that this is not a thunder strike and when I was looking at this event and this is the fireball that we saw which is the metallic streak that you are looking at. So even this metallic streak is so weird because because of the high wind you are seeing all those curviness there in the upper atmosphere.
It's a very rare event for somebody to have these. I'm going to put all the credits for these. Bruce, thank you for taking this incredible picture. And we are also seeing out here on the ghost satellite as well, which is going to show us the flash that is happening there as well. So what that tells me is we are missing not only this event but when I was tracking last 90 days events how many events made it into the center for nearear objects there were at least four entries that I saw in the last 90 days I'll share that with you all the data as well.
Yeah that's pretty much what I have for today. Thank you everyone for watching.
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