ie, this, this or any of these.
I’ve been quite involved in work lately, but this particular story still managed to make an impression. The powers that being are being unusually and infuriatingly coy on the subject, so that’s no help.
From all the descriptions I could be convinced it was a meteor, except for the stonewalling, and that it hasn’t really been put forth as an option as far as I’m aware.
It’s a French missile. They say it isn’t, but I think it is.
So you thought the people on this message board would somehow have more information and be less coy about it?
It would help to have more than one grainy picture. The shot could be of anything from a missile to a model rocket to a bird with his ass on fire. It could be two miles from the camera or twenty feet.
They’re on to you :eek:
Or maybe not
It’s a UFO, until someone comes up with an explanation.
Certainly less coy at any rate.
Well… yes. By definition. 
That has been put forth as an option, but France say their launch was two days later, so…
For some reason it reminds me of footage I saw ages ago on TV… I think someone was filming a sport’s event in a stadium and recorded a meteor that looked something like that. Unfortunately, there exists a “Meteor Stadium”, so I haven’t found anything relevant.
I think you’re referring to the Peekskill Bolide event of '92.
Here’s another video from a football game–not sure if it’s the same event (don’t think it is, though.)
Retired economist and “UFO Researcher” Bjorn Borg says that it’s the effect of “jetliner vapor trails catching winter sunlight.” He says he reads reports like this every year: he even calls it the December Phenomenon. Chris Stevenson of the Royal Astronomical Society agrees.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iAoiyFGNLxUmdTjEEPYySD29T-RA
Bjorn Borg? The tennis player?
A rocket, from what I know, would have a slender point of exhaust. You wouldn’t have a flame that comes up to fit the outside contour of the device. To me, that makes the idea of a orange-lit vapor trail gain extra momentum.
Of course, knowing that it’s a vapor trail still doesn’t tell you what it is. Though one can presume that it’s an airplane photographed at an angle where it’s wings are hidden in its silhouette.
It’s a pity there is only the one photo. A sequence might have shown the dark object moving away from the “exhaust trails”, in which case, it could be a ufo flying in front of a “sun dog”.