I am skeptical, but there are certainly some interesting aspects to it.
The lead part and the two larger trailing bits seem to generate their
own light, judging from the reflections. Jets and contrails, while
visible in the sky when illuminated by the sun, aren't generally bright
enough to be seen in the water as these are.
Joel W.
Notice also that there is a contrail very close to the phenomenon which
is no longer lit by the sun. Notice its position in both photos
relative to the phenomenon. They are moving very differently from each
other. Not sure how to interpret that.
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Yup. I'm pretty sure it's a bolide aka fireball.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolide#Bolide>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> On 3/5/2012 8:28 AM, Mark Marr-Lyon wrote:
> > It looks to me like you've caught a pretty good sized fireball
> > breaking up. Nice photo!
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Joel Wilcox<jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Exciting day yesterday as I started working my way through the last
> >> three rolls of Kodachrome that came back from processing in Kansas over
> >> a year ago. I'll eventually put together a "best of" effort gallery,
> >> but I noticed a strange phenom in this one:
> >>
> >> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox
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