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Unidentified Object Falls From The Sky Over Lanarkshire

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On Wednesday 1st Feb, a woman in Coatbridge Lanarkshire spotted something unusual in the sky and had the presence of mind to film it on her phone.
The object is moving rapidly and leaves what looks like a dark grey smoky trail.
The woman, a council worker, feared a plane was crashing, but no wreckage appears to have been found.
Other possibilities stated are a meteorite or space debris.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/watch-bird-plane-mystery-object-29122490
 
Seems a bit slow to be a meteor. Could it be some sort of flare? Seen in daylight it might appear less bright but smoke would be visible.
 
On Wednesday 1st Feb, a woman in Coatbridge Lanarkshire spotted something unusual in the sky and had the presence of mind to film it on her phone.
The object is moving rapidly and leaves what looks like a dark grey smoky trail.
The woman, a council worker, feared a plane was crashing, but no wreckage appears to have been found.
Other possibilities stated are a meteorite or space debris.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/watch-bird-plane-mystery-object-29122490
Coincidentally there’s some similar footage from Billings,Montana from yesterday. The YouTube footage wouldn’t won’t play on here but it’s easy to find.
 
The Daily Record says it was about 0800 on Wednesday. A British Airways flight from London City airport to Glasgow passed Coatbridge shortly before then. Around 0805 a British Airways A320 from Inverness to London Heathrow flying at 30000ft and an Easyjet A320 from Bristol to Glasgow at 6000ft flew over Coatbridge.
The flights into Glasgow wouldn't have been high enough to produce contrails. It looks like the contrail of an aircraft flying away from the observer in the light of the sunrise. The Inverness flight seems the most likely candidate, assuming the time of the video is correct. Sunrise in Glasgow was at 0811 on the 1st February. Contrails often appear in shadow or partial shadow when the sun is still below the horizon.
 
The Daily Record says it was about 0800 on Wednesday. A British Airways flight from London City airport to Glasgow passed Coatbridge shortly before then. Around 0805 a British Airways A320 from Inverness to London Heathrow flying at 30000ft and an Easyjet A320 from Bristol to Glasgow at 6000ft flew over Coatbridge.
The flights into Glasgow wouldn't have been high enough to produce contrails. It looks like the contrail of an aircraft flying away from the observer in the light of the sunrise. The Inverness flight seems the most likely candidate, assuming the time of the video is correct. Sunrise in Glasgow was at 0811 on the 1st February. Contrails often appear in shadow or partial shadow when the sun is still below the horizon.
Yes as the contrail gradually seems to 'hang' which suggests it's moving away further into the distance. Most odd thing about it is that appears to be tube-like, not two contrail lines converging into one contrail as you would expect to see if it was plane, so maybe it is something which could be burning up leaving a smoke trail, not a contrail as such?
 
Most odd thing about it is that appears to be tube-like, not two contrail lines converging into one contrail as you would expect to see if it was plane, so maybe it is something which could be burning up leaving a smoke trail, not a contrail as such?
I don't think there is anything unusual about this contrail. The plane concerned was probably a two-engined A320, and the twin streams of condensation probably joined together soon after leaving the plane. From this angle the confluence of the streams would have been far away and indistinguishable.
 
I don't think there is anything unusual about this contrail. The plane concerned was probably a two-engined A320, and the twin streams of condensation probably joined together soon after leaving the plane. From this angle the confluence of the streams would have been far away and indistinguishable.
Agree :twothumbs:
 
Depth perception has very little to do with it. At those distances the parallax of the top of the contrail would be indistinguishable from that at the bottom, at least by the naked eye. So it would be natural to perceive it as a vertically-hanging column, rather than a receding trail.
 
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