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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:10 pm Post Subject: 2 April 2010 - West Auckland - DON'T WORRY, IT'S VERY COMMON
Bright lights puzzle Piha residents Published: 10:20PM Friday April 02, 2010
Source: ONE News
A mystery explosion in the sky has kept residents at a West Auckland beach guessing.
Piha residents describe seeing what looked like trails of fire falling from the sky.
But an astronomer says there's a simple explanation for the strange sight. Alan Gilmore from Canterbury University told ONE News vapour trails at sunrise and at sunset are a very common thing.
He says they attract a lot of attention because they are so bright and unusual looking and because they are in the sunshine while people seeing them are in semi darkness.
The orange glow lasted in the sky for around 20 minutes.
There was another photo shown on the TV One News tonight that showed a straighter, longer persistent trail of the type I've been seeing & photographing out west a lot to the left of this one and heading down on an angle towards the horizon. Unfortunately that one wasn't posted on their site. My main question is why these trails are only a section of trail in that particular area as opposed to a long trail right across the sky passing through that area? An explanation that they might be reaching a certain altitude there "might" hold up for people who don't know any better except for the fact I've physically seen them flying right across the sky towards the west and then appear to sputter out a few puffs of trail before "appearing to" turn it on solid for a while then "appearing to" just as solidly turn it off. Then another section of trail is laid along side the first in exactly the same fashion and THEN on one or 2 occasions a third done exactly the same! Look back for at least one or 2 bits of photographic evidence in these forums. Notice my heading says "it's very common" which is what the astronomer says in the article. In fact he says they're very common at both at sunrise and sunset. He also says it's a "simple explanation". What he doesn't say is that it's "normal" :wink: And why an astronomer to explain this phenomenon? I've got some feedback for him - in all the years I spent surfing out at Piha (at least 15 where I was in the water on average 2 or 3 nights a week and a further 10-15 where it was less) I never saw these things!!!
