Spaceship burning through Cassiopaea

[lilies]

During resistance exercise on Sunday late afternoon/night [08/18/2013] just having finished belly muscle stretching I look up to my favorite Cassiopaea constellation and see a perfectly balanced bright white burn, on a straight, high-speed flight path very high.

It had this approximate "engine burn brightness" compared to stars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1PMper0FuY at time: 1:55

In the clear sky I saw only the end of the "burn" process lasting about 2 seconds then the "engine" was turned off, the things brightness level dropped to that of high speed satellites/space station's (?) brightness (that I'm used to seeing at night and those are clearly different from low altitude normal planes sporting blinking lights).

The thing was speeding away straight through the Cassiopaea constellation like a well navigated vehicle. After about 40 sec's of straight "fly away" it became less bright /smaller then disappeared without apparent change in altitude. It looked like going through Earths atmo in a straight grazing path then cruising away.


Compared to above description, this one is a colored, chaotic, smoking, ongoing burn and natural fall at a steep angle at (time) 0.02sec:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woO6kMms3pA

I know how meteors look like when coming in / falling: Saw them a couple of times and mean this type:
http://www.sott.net/category/17-Fire-in-the-Sky
"Amazing Meteor Video Over Canberra Australia on August 13 2013" at [1:07]

This was an artificial creation absolutely not behaving like any obvious human-made craft I see frequently in night skies. Maybe new tech or not human?

 

[mkrnhr]

Hi lilies,
What you have described looks like a satellite. Maybe it was one?

 

[Cosmos]

As far as I know comets and meteors can display in many different ways, because of many unpredictable factors.
Some of wich you might not be familiar with or have seen before.
So I wouldn't be to fast in excluding that possibility OSIT.

 

[lilies]

Behaved like a satellite, but I never saw one shining bright then going back to normal. Maybe it went through some charged dust zone and threw sparks or its surface just began shining/glowing like a bulb or a neon-tube? Or light bounced on a reflective cloud - that had sort of a mirror surface - shining a shaft of light back into space and the satellite's metallic surface reflected that just by passing overhead.

Atmospheric Optical Phenomena

The light is reflected and refracted by the ice crystals and split up into colours by
dispersion. The crystals behave like prisms and mirrors, refracting and reflecting sunlight
between their faces, sending shafts of light in particular directions

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_http://www.metoffice.gov.tt/sites/default/files/Optical%20Phenomena.pdf

Reflection of Light Pulses from Clouds
_http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-10-10-2304


One case differs from this I described in a sott.net post, a light source ~2x brighter than this one (visible for 3-4 minutes) did a standard military reconnaissance maneuver without sound, dove in during the long horizontal "U"-shaped recon path then ascended fast, appearing to fly out of the atmosphere.

 

[mkrnhr]

Behaved like a satellite, but I never saw one shining bright then going back to normal. Maybe it went through some charged dust zone and threw sparks or its surface just began shining/glowing like a bulb or a neon-tube? Or light bounced on a reflective cloud - that had sort of a mirror surface - shining a shaft of light back into space and the satellite's metallic surface reflected that just by passing overhead.

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Most likely a geometrical effect. The satellite luminosity depends on the angle its solar panels make with the sun and the observer. It's like when a car's window becomes extremely luminous in sunlight and can be seen shining for far away. As the satellite moves, the angle changes and thus the perceived luminosity changes. Sometimes also, the satellite goes through the Earth's shadow and it just disappears from the view.

One case differs from this I described in a sott.net post, a light source ~2x brighter than this one (visible for 3-4 minutes) did a standard military reconnaissance maneuver without sound, dove in during the long horizontal "U"-shaped recon path then ascended fast, appearing to fly out of the atmosphere.

When the objects does weird manoeuvres then it is not a satellite indeed.

 

[lilies]

A theory of Truls Lynn Hansen from Tromsø Geophysical Observatory.

[..]In this way it would act like an 'iridium flare.' The flares are created by sunlight reflecting off iridium satellites. They appear as bright white flashes in the sky.

Iridium satellites have three main antennas. When at a certain angle the Sun's reflection from one such antenna produces a small spot on the surface of the Earth around 6.25miles in diameter. This moves as the satellite and the Earth move. Someone within this area on Earth can observe iridium flares or flashes in the sky

_http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1246491/Was-mysterious-jellyfish-sky-caused-space-satellite-reflecting-Northern-Lights.html

Could have been this phenomenon.