Okay, I'm stumped; what was this thing?

[Oldsalt66]

When I was a teenager I worked as a docent in a prestigious planetarium so I'm very familiar with the appearance and other characteristics of all of the natural extraterrestrial objects that fall to earth.

This thing, however, has me stumped due to both it's appearance, and the fact that there was no reported impact or even a sound of an impact.

It's no natural object.

Help me out here, what do you think it was?

Thanks.

Watch: Massachusetts woman records mystery object in the sky - UPI.com

A Massachusetts woman relaxing in her outdoor hot tub captured video when she spotted a mystery object floating in the sky.

www.upi.com

 

[greenwellg]

It was her husbands camera checking to see WHO she was with in the hot tub!!!!!!

 

[s&wchad]

It was obviously a UFO (unidentified falling object).

 

[JohnRippert]

Looks like a helicopter to me, but who knows.

 

[Rule3]

A drone on fire

 

[husker51]

I have not seen anything quite like it.

 

[woodsltc]

When I was a teenager I worked as a docent in a prestigious planetarium

Well the object stumped me too, as did "docent".......... had to look that term up.

Don

 

[Onomea]

Boondoggling Martians, is my guess.

 

[Muddyboot]

Illegal Aliens

 

[Rudi]

Down right strange. Not swamp gas, or a weather balloon, take me to your leader!

 

[charlie sherrill]

Looks like space junk. There are thousands of dead satellites up there and they often fall through the atmosphere. A lot of them don't completely burn up.

 

[AlHunt]

Weather balloon, obviously.

Move along ...

 

['79 Magnum GT]

Well the object stumped me too, as did "docent".......... had to look that term up.

Don

Me too, just did. never heard of it before.

Rick

 

[olfart]

It appears to be a controlled descent rather than falling. No clue as to the actual size of it, but I'd be looking at neighborhood kids experimenting with R/C aircraft of some sort.

 

[MelvinWalker]

Looks like space junk. There are thousands of dead satellites up there and they often fall through the atmosphere. A lot of them don't completely burn up.

John Rippert for the win on this one: @JohnRippert

It is forced perspective, making it appear the craft was falling, when it was just flying close to the horizon and away from her phone.

From FlightAware history, It was actually flying at 1650 feet and is an EC-145 Medevac chopper, (N144NE) that was directly over her house at the time. There is no debris, because it didn't crash....It was flying and the "fire" she saw is out of focus landing lights.

See diagram for hot tub location and flight path of N144NE.

 

[chuckie]

John Rippert for the win on this one: @JohnRippert

It is forced perspective, making it appear the craft was falling, when it was just flying close to the horizon and away from her phone.

From FlightAware history, It was actually flying at 1650 feet and is an EC-145 Medevac chopper, (N144NE) that was directly over her house at the time. There is no debris, because it didn't crash....It was flying and the "fire" she saw is out of focus landing lights.

See diagram for hot tub location and flight path of N144NE.

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Interesting, I saw the original story on the news the other day, as yet I haven't seen the explaination you posted on any local news station! Thanks for taking the time to expiain this.

 

[MelvinWalker]

Interesting, I saw the original story on the news the other day, as yet I haven't seen the explaination you posted on any local news station! Thanks for taking the time to expiain this.

Watch the clip again and re-read my post and you'll start to kinda see what I mean...I reminds me of those older black and white graphic pictures that you stare at and it looks like one thing till your eyes adjust and then you see it correctly.

 

[chuckie]

Watch the clip again and re-read my post and you'll start to kinda see what I mean...I reminds me of those older black and white graphic pictures that you stare at and it looks like one thing till your eyes adjust and then you see it correctly.

I meant that the local stations never even tried to explain what it was, they just did an interview with the girl who took the video and that was it. Journalism at it's finest. lol

 

[lihpster]

I meant that the local stations never even tried to explain what it was, they just did an interview with the girl who took the video and that was it. Journalism at it's finest. lol

Journalism? What's that? We don't have that anymore. Gets in the way of business.

 

[JohnRippert]

There was a point in the video that I could kinda make out the rotor blades and it made me think helicoptor almost immediately.