I remember a similar question posted here a while back about similar light in the norther suburbs.

Venus setting is responsible for more flare sightings than actual flares. Has anyone got today's paper handy? Check the Night Sky for what time Venus set.

someones been lighting their chemtrails

Pitbull said..

At about 8:45pm tonight I was outside and looked up at the night sky to see what seemed to be a parachute flare let off by someone near by. Watching and waiting for it to fall it just looked to be floating for a while. It had a bight orange glow and I would estimate it was less than 2kms from my place in the northern suburbs. It was moving away toward the north with an inclination of about 10 degrees.
I called the wife to come and have a look at it. Then it appeared to accelerate away into the distance. We looked on Google for 'Orange lights in the sky' and f@#$ me - the it was in a few other countries around the world.
Now, I couldn't have been the only one who saw this. The other thing I noticed is that the was no sound. I thought maybe a chopper or light aircraft - but no sound being that close. Did anyone else see it?
Freaky!!

Looks like this International Space Station rubbish burned in the atmosphere together with private spaceship returning to Earth after first successful mission to ISS.
Alternatively clould be famous Thatcher comet leftover
www.space.com/23315-lyrid-meteor-shower.html

Toph said..

Pitbull said..

Just for the record, no drugs or alcohol were consumed prior to or during this viewing.

Was there an answer to the previous sighting?

Not from memory. I tried to do a search but didn't find it.

This link might help if it was trackable www.airservicesaustralia.com/aircraftnoise/webtrak/

Hey! That's cool. Nothing showed over my house at that time though.

try it again tonight with drugs and alcohol. if symptons persist,consult the doctor.

This is what it looked like - but a hell of a lot closer.

When I first saw it, it was nearly directly above. I'm guessing about the distance but it sure looked closer than 2kms. As it moved away the distance from the ground was slightly increasing.

I'm surprised that no one else saw it last night. I am in the vicinity of Kingsway Sporting Complex.

airjunkie said..

chinese lantern ????

Sounds about right.

Pitbull said..

When I first saw it, it was nearly directly above. I'm guessing about the distance but it sure looked closer than 2kms. As it moved away the distance from the ground was slightly increasing.

I'm surprised that no one else saw it last night. I am in the vicinity of Kingsway Sporting Complex.

Not too far from us-[we are about 200 metres from the Alexander heights shops]
My best estimate is they are now launching from close to Frangipani Park.

The kids? in our area have been messing around with bin liner hot air balloons, and usually have lightsticks [night time] or a CD for a reflector [daytime] and other assorted stuff hanging under the balloons

I sprung a couple of kids walking past our place on the way to another park with one of thier balloons and had a look.
Turned out that "park launching" is harder- easier from home.

Heat source for the balloon is a bottle top with cotton and metho, hairdryer or heatgun to assist lift-off,
The lightstick or whatever is hanging underneath as ballast is to reduce tendancy to tip over- and as an unintended side benefit- to confuse pitbulls

I dont mind the local kids doing this sort of stuff- at least these ones are not blowing up letter boxes or grafitti-ing or belting around our street on trailbikes with dodgy mufflers

The last launch I saw, the balloon went straight up for ages until it found a breeze and wandered off north[ish]


stephen

sn said..

Pitbull said..

When I first saw it, it was nearly directly above. I'm guessing about the distance but it sure looked closer than 2kms. As it moved away the distance from the ground was slightly increasing.

I'm surprised that no one else saw it last night. I am in the vicinity of Kingsway Sporting Complex.

Not too far from us-[we are about 200 metres from the Alexander heights shops]
My best estimate is they are now launching from close to Frangipani Park.

The kids? in our area have been messing around with bin liner hot air balloons, and usually have lightsticks [night time] or a CD for a reflector [daytime] and other assorted stuff hanging under the balloons

I sprung a couple of kids walking past our place on the way to another park with one of thier balloons and had a look.
Turned out that "park launching" is harder- easier from home.

Heat source for the balloon is a bottle top with cotton and metho, hairdryer or heatgun to assist lift-off,
The lightstick or whatever is hanging underneath as ballast is to reduce tendancy to tip over- and as an unintended side benefit- to confuse pitbulls

I dont mind the local kids doing this sort of stuff- at least these ones are not blowing up letter boxes or grafitti-ing or belting around our street on trailbikes with dodgy mufflers

The last launch I saw, the balloon went straight up for ages until it found a breeze and wandered off north[ish]


stephen

Maybe plausible, but this thing (when it moved away - at a guess) was probably doing 600km/h when it disappear ed to the north.

Pitbull said..




Maybe plausible, but this thing (when it moved away - at a guess) was probably doing 600km/h when it disappear ed to the north.

the various jet streams reach up to 400 - 500kph but they are generally slower than that most of the time (about half that speed) and as they are narrow passages they can appear to give suddden aceleration to balloons / lanterns etc

If it was closer, like 100m away, a gust at 30kn would make it LOOK the same as an object at 2km doing 600kph.

It is amazing what feat people attribute to a simple light under a hot air balloon, (as SN descibes)