Big bang theory: Was mystery explosion over New York caused by a meteor? Dunno. By a military jet? Maybe...

I knew it was aliens. Tricky bugger, yer standard alien.

Booms

roars, rumblings, whines. . . It's all on Youtube for your listening pleasure.

If this is a near vertical meteor the chances of getting a pic are near zero even if you are looking in the right direction at the time. We had one blow up off the N.Devon coast Oct 2006 - the floor dropped under my feet and windows rattled. I popped outside and scanned the skies for any sign and could see nothing.

I was near Stansted a few months ago when they scrambled some fighters and blasted the area with a sonic boom - the meteor was a good order of magnitude louder - the sonic boom felt like a wardrobe falling over upstairs, the meteor felt like it pushed the floor away beneath my feet.

I, for one, welcome our new incredibly loud alien overlords.

Since 20 km flight ceiling is around 65600 feet, I am fairly sure that this is the Two-Stage-to-Low-Orbit (aka SR-75 + Dart) spacecraft which is either an NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) asset for General White House directed Observational Satellite imagery OR its a CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) asset used for tactical operations imaging for special forces (JSOC or SOCOM).

Since it's been detected over the New York area as the seeming final destination, I'm fairly sure the main operating base is probably near Westchester County or the Near Lake Champlain, NY in one of the smaller operating bases. If this is an NRO operation, it will be a North Korea observation and/or Iran Missile Base Observation run starting at around 135000 feet to as high as 300000+ feet. There is also the possibility of a Cuba and Venezuela run for looking at recent weather damage, economic and general political observations.

If this is a CIA run, it will over North Eastern China, Eastern Russia and possibly Afghanistan, Pakistan and/or Kashmir (India) for a logistics scouting run used to direct small special operations forces on tactical missions such as hunting for stray nukes, killing bad-dude warlords and/or sabotaging 3rd party or proxy forces/insurgents and their assets in those regions.

They may have also sent it over the East Coast for an eventual wide arc around or Over Florida to a New Mexico or Arizona landing which usually done when maintenance or upgrades on the smaller parasitic Dart spaceplane needs to be completed since Arizona/New Mexico contains TEST and MAINTENANCE facilities!

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I've identified a UFO

A few years back, a elderly co-worker assured me that he saw 4 UFOs circling in the sky. I thought he might be going senile, but then I saw them myself -> a car dealership aimed 4 floodlights into the sky and had them circle in unison.

I still have no idea why.

Re: You've all been neuralized already by MIB

The flash was the actual neuralizer!

The few that have reported seeing it are actually immune, and are now being hunted by the MiB!

Not everyone filmed it. It was caught on a dashcam that Russia's insurance companies mandate because Russian drivers are so dangerous.

There were a few mobile vids, because it's difficult to get your phone out, hunt for the cam app and point the phone at something that disappears in seconds to get a record of it.

No conspiracy needed there, and no phones are turned off en masse. Besides, do you really think that the government turning off all the phones is not going to be followed by Twitter storm of "hey, my phone was turned off !" ?

You need to think your conspiracy theories through if you don't want to come off as ridiculous.

Re: Don't panic

TBH, the world is so fucked up that I would be underwhelmed by the arrival of aliens. "Aliens, huh? D'you think they're Brexiteers or Remainers?"

Degloved

If it fell 20km it'll have to get some new flesh from somewhere. Harley riders of New York State, you need to be prepared to do more than just protect your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.

stoke me a clipper

Re: I have it on good authority

Could we please appeal to our favourite Martian to stop posting anonymously.

It hurts my brain to read it without my MfM filter turned on!

Re: military aircraft ...

Few airplanes can easily reach an altitude of 20km (it's 65600 ft, above the upper limit of Class A airspace in US), and once there, keep good maneuverability, it's above the service ceiling of F-15 and F-16, and the max service ceiling of an F-22. U-2 and SR-71 had both a higher ceiling, but the former can't go supersonic, and the latter should not be operative any longer.

So, it doesn't look like some standard military procedure - if it was some sort of experiment, why over New York?

Re: 20Km too low for MOST meteors.

It landed in southern Ontario, if anything was left.

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2016/09/01/fireball-over-lake-ontario-wows-rochesterians/89667540/

G-BOAB is located at Heathrow.

https://www.daftlogic.com/information-locations-of-concorde-planes.htm

Probably just Hotblack Desiato warming up for their next gig

https://hotblackdesiato.co.uk/about-us/

Re: NY Fees

That's the New York State Thruway to you, mate.

Personally I didn't hear a thing. But at that time of night I probably was watching baseball on the goggle-slab (somehow "gogglebox" doesn't seem to fit anymore). One of the reports was from Penfield, NY, a suburb of Rochester a bit to the east of where I live.

Oh and we are not "central" NY. We're on the North Coast, and don't you forget it.

Re: I heard it

Sounds like you heard a meteor. Shame, I was hoping they had re-started the XB-70 Valkyrie program ;-)