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.

 

[CalifEd]

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

Today it is called, "Journalish".
It has the look, feel and appearance but without the substance, accuracy and profession attributes of the old time Journalism.

 

[BC38]

Looks like either a helicopter or some kind of drone to me.
Three lights at the back and one at the front.
The blurry phone video makes it look like all of those lights are jet engine exhausts or something.
As it flies toward the horizon, it appears to be "coming down" and slowing as it descends.
But that is just an artifact of perspective.
The farther away it gets the lower and slower it appears to be flying.
All easily explained by simple optical principles. But even the simplest of scientific principles are overlooked by the ignorant in the quest for "a breaking story".
So, the local "news journalists" want to make it out to be something much more sinister.
They have to figure out a way to fill all their airtime with something...
Sensationalism at its very finest...
</yawn>

 

[Rustyt1953]

There are still solid journalists out there that do their homework.

Peter Doosy, Catherine Herridge and Scott Jennings come to mind.

 

[BC38]

There are still solid journalists out there that do their homework.

Peter Doosy, Catherine Herridge and Scott Jennings come to mind.

Yes there are. But there aren't very many of them, and they seem to be a rapidly-shrinking minority.
I subscribe to multiple news feeds, and I continue to be amazed, every single day, at what passes for "journalism" these days.
I remember when being a JOURNALIST meant knowing how to spell and knowing how to construct a grammatically correct sentence. I remember when being a journalist meant knowing simple things like the correct usage of words like there, they're, and their.
The vast majority of what I see posted by Internet "journalists" today doesn't even rise to that level of competent use of the English language.
Most of the "reporting" by "journalists" these days seems to have been composed by someone with 6th grade-level grammar and writing skills.
I'm not a great writer - but I think I could do better than most of the drivel that I read on my daily news feeds.
Maybe I should apply for a job as a reporter? Nah, I would only be able to write reasonably and rationally on potentially "breaking stories" - and what current news outlet wants to pay anyone for that?
JMO, and, as always. YMMV.

 

[Rustyt1953]

As to the MSM I spit out the sticks and swallow the hay.

 

[BC38]

As to the MSM I spit out the sticks and swallow the hay.

I'm sure that is true for you, and for me, and for some of the rest of us.
But how many of the unwashed and uneducated masses in our society can't tell the hay from sticks?
So, they just swallow all the pablum they're being fed without question - without even a second thought. IMO that's true for far too many of the sheeple.
As the great Rushbo used to say, many people just accept, without question, what they see on that "19 inch peephole into paradise".
And these days that 19-inch peephole has been expanded to 50 or 60 inches - making it an even more persuasive influence over their "thinking".
The masses seem to want to believe everything that MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CNN, et. al. tell them to believe. They don't actually think for themselves, they just accept what they are told, even when it defies logic and common sense.
That's what we're fighting.

 

[llowry61]

Things aren't always what they seem are they. Thanks for the explanation one more to keep in the knowledge bucket.

 

[LVSteve]

No follow up is no surprise. Let's be honest, "Strange aerial sighting is just a helicopter, story at 11" is not the sort of blip-vert advertising the average US TV station is after.

After 25+ years here I still find the "ads" for the local news programs totally laughable. We know when the news comes on, and we will watch it or we won't, the latter usually because there is something better to do.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[snubbyfan]