I was driving back home from an errand.
I saw what I thought was a plane on approach to SFO but it never turned on final, and instead continued heading East. I then realized it was not a plane, it had a tail of ionized matter and debris.
I then thought it might be a fireball ... but it was moving way too slow for that.
My next thought ...
A man made object experiencing a flawed re-entry. In a way it reminded me of how the ill fated space shuttle looked as it started to break up. Was it a MIRVed war head cluster? Would there be others to come, and air bursts soon to follow?
This last train of thought was not too far off. It is being described in the news today as a "Chinese rocket."
I wonder exactly what sort of vehicle it really was.
Was it a hypersonic war head delivery vehicle undergoing some sort of dry run?
Was it indeed a standard rocket, but purposely reentered over the US, to test our defenses against ICBMs and hypersonic vehicles?
Food for thought.
I saw what I thought was a plane on approach to SFO but it never turned on final, and instead continued heading East. I then realized it was not a plane, it had a tail of ionized matter and debris.
I then thought it might be a fireball ... but it was moving way too slow for that.
My next thought ...
A man made object experiencing a flawed re-entry. In a way it reminded me of how the ill fated space shuttle looked as it started to break up. Was it a MIRVed war head cluster? Would there be others to come, and air bursts soon to follow?
This last train of thought was not too far off. It is being described in the news today as a "Chinese rocket."
I wonder exactly what sort of vehicle it really was.
Was it a hypersonic war head delivery vehicle undergoing some sort of dry run?
Was it indeed a standard rocket, but purposely reentered over the US, to test our defenses against ICBMs and hypersonic vehicles?
Food for thought.