This event happened when I was in the Marines in 2005 at Camp Pendleton, CA. It was night time and our platoon was outside. In the the sky, we could see a bright circle going across the sky. If you held your hand straight out toward the sky, it would probably take about 4 seconds to cross the distance of the back of your hand.
Anyway, every 5 or 6 seconds, some kind of explosion would happen, and it would look like a shockwave. The remnants of the explosion did not fade away quickly. The last time I looked at it, it was still moving, leaving a straight path behind it, along with the circular explosion remnants in even increments behind it. Our instructors forced us to stop looking at it, so I didn't get to see how the situation ended.
I'm not 100% certain about the color, but I think the aurora-looking remnants were green. The entire event was silent (from my perspective).
I'm assuming it was either a meteor or a space shuttle returning into the atmosphere. Can anyone shed some light on what has remained a mystery for me for 6 years?
Anyway, every 5 or 6 seconds, some kind of explosion would happen, and it would look like a shockwave. The remnants of the explosion did not fade away quickly. The last time I looked at it, it was still moving, leaving a straight path behind it, along with the circular explosion remnants in even increments behind it. Our instructors forced us to stop looking at it, so I didn't get to see how the situation ended.
I'm not 100% certain about the color, but I think the aurora-looking remnants were green. The entire event was silent (from my perspective).
I'm assuming it was either a meteor or a space shuttle returning into the atmosphere. Can anyone shed some light on what has remained a mystery for me for 6 years?
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I'd have to get an exact date, but I do remember that they were doing tests on Earth's magnetic field back then. What you describe really sounds like when they release special elements out in space (in low orbit around Earth) in order to "see" (for real) the orientation of the magnetic field. It creates artificial auroras.
The stuff was released by bursts, from a moving satellite (the satellite had no choice: it had to move to remain in orbit and not fall back to Earth).
Your description of the rate of movement appears to be the right rate for this kind of experiment.
I had seen something like that, but back in the 1990s, from a ship out at sea (no light pollution!).
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The reference to HAARP is good. They do create effects that look like aurora in the ionosphere by pumping radio energy in that layer. They can pump enough energy to separate electrons from atoms (thereby creating fields of charged particles) and the free electrons will rapidly follow the lines of Earth's magnetic field, causing an aurora-type glow as they ionize the air on their way.
The stuff was released by bursts, from a moving satellite (the satellite had no choice: it had to move to remain in orbit and not fall back to Earth).
Your description of the rate of movement appears to be the right rate for this kind of experiment.
I had seen something like that, but back in the 1990s, from a ship out at sea (no light pollution!).
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The reference to HAARP is good. They do create effects that look like aurora in the ionosphere by pumping radio energy in that layer. They can pump enough energy to separate electrons from atoms (thereby creating fields of charged particles) and the free electrons will rapidly follow the lines of Earth's magnetic field, causing an aurora-type glow as they ionize the air on their way.
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