Thread: Fiery object in Des Moines IA

Venus is visible but not at the time you saw your object.

Venus is a pre-dawn object, shining brightly at magnitude -3.8. It is in the north-east, but, like Jupiter and Mercury, the shallow angle between the ecliptic and the horizon in the morning means it appears very low down. It is moving away from Earth and its angular size is now 10", but it is also 95% illuminated, keeping its brightness similar to that in previous months. It passes 6° below the Pleiades Cluster on the 8th, and on the 18th it is 5° above the Hyades Cluster and the closer star Aldebaran, which is the eye of Taurus the Bull.

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Originally Posted by Scott Hasty

Sounds like space junk to me as well...

This looks like a likely candidate.

No from the residential neighborhood we were driving by on I235

welcome to au, hawkeye

i don't understand how you guys can say it was 'space junk'(whatever do you mean by that anyway). to me, it sounds like a legitimit sighting

if i were you, hawkeye, i would report it to MUFON. they can not only use the info, but you never know, there may have been something similar seen by others that night somewhere

juila

Originally Posted by julia52

i don't understand how you guys can say it was 'space junk'(whatever do you mean by that anyway). to me, it sounds like a legitimit sighting

Burning indicates a re-entry. Depending on your position, it may look like it is not moving much. My ex-wife an I were lucky enough to see this just as it started to re-enter over North Carolina (we were in southern Virginia).



It appeared as a brilliant green orb. Within a few seconds it began sparkling. We thought it was someone shooting off fireworks. After about 10 seconds we finally got a side view of it. Keep in mind, the video was at the bollide's end. The newspaper said they had reports of a plane crash. My college astronomy professor said what we saw was impossible because of the Earth's position. So as you can see even the most knowledgeable can be wrong.

Originally Posted by Scott Hasty

Burning indicates a re-entry. Depending on your position, it may look like it is not moving much. My ex-wife an I were lucky enough to see this just as it started to re-enter over North Carolina (we were in southern Virginia).

‪Peekskill Bolide Fireball of 1992‬‏ - YouTube

It appeared as a brilliant green orb. Within a few seconds it began sparkling. We thought it was someone shooting off fireworks. After about 10 seconds we finally got a side view of it. Keep in mind, the video was at the bollide's end. The newspaper said they had reports of a plane crash. My college astronomy professor said what we saw was impossible because of the Earth's position. So as you can see even the most knowledgeable can be wrong.

Yeah, what I saw didn't look like that.
At all.
It looked like a candle flame: yes a 'tail' of flame was above it, but not a streaking tail like that and no smoke from the fire. It was very clearly not falling and made independent movements more a kin to thought than physics.

ive had a similar experience myself approx 8years ago but it looked like a burning ball of crimson red,i awoke with my wife and we both viewed it for about 20mins before returning to bed,strange thing is we both never spoke of the incident until about a month later as we didnt seem to remember anything about it when we woke the next day,stange!

Ok, so I was busy tonight and could not get back on this until now. I work in Urbandale and last night I was coming home on Merle Hay Road and after I turned onto Douglas I turned to the east and was one block south of the intersection when I noticed something lit up in the sky just above the tree line. I thought, at first, that it was a helicopter but as I looked through the trees I rolled down my windows because I wasn't quite sure what it was that I was looking at. I thought that it must have been someone that had extended some kind of lighted object up into the sky that may have been on a tether. I turned right on 57th or whatever the first street is to the south of the intersection and came to a stop. This light, which I can best describe as dark orange and glowing appeared to be kind of cylinder shaped and was moving north. I turned my car back around because I turned to the south. I considered getting out of my car but I figured it was someone that figured a way to get some kind of lighted device up in the air and make it move around. As I came back to the intersection the object had crossed over Douglas and continued to the north. I can't tell you how high it was, but I can tell you that when I first saw it, it seemed to be just over the tree line. As it moved away from me, as I sat at the intersection looking at it through my windsheild, it just kept moving to the north. I turned east and headed about a half a block down Douglas and looked over my left shoulder and it eventually just disappeared. I am not trying to tell anyone that I saw a UFO. But it was interesting and someone has done a really nice job of creating a ruse. My son logged on to see if he could find someone with a similar story in Des Moines and sas the previous story. Very similar to what I saw. I'm not making up what I saw. I don't think I've ever seen anything like what I saw last night, and it's really hard to describe it. It was just a glowing dark orange object that appeared to be glowing. Good job to whoever came up with this one, I'm a believer. At least for now.

Very interesting.
Continue watching the sky. It just might show up again.