Video shows a slow moving streak moving from right to left in the camera’s view. Speculation is that the object was the re-entry of a spent rocket stage from a Russian Soyuz-2 that was involved in the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station Friday. Others speculate that the sighting was a meteor.

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The communities of Schwalbach, Laufdorf, Niederquembach, Niederwetz, Oberquembach and Oberwetz merged on January 1, 1972 and chose the historic name Schöffengrund, which refers to the old court region, the so-called “Quembacher Gericht”, which was held at the “stone” near Oberquembach, and was where the Schöffen (“jurymen”) from distinguished families in the villages that belonged to the court met for the court’s sittings. Grund is German for “ground”.

“Modern und aufgeschlossen eingestellt eine gemeinde mit Zukunft”

“Modern and Open Minded Community with a Future”

Original Caption before translation …
[Das Video habe ich Heilig Abend (24.12.1011) nachdem ich in Schöffengrund aus der Kirche kam aufgenommen, es war vermutlich ain Komet oder aber Weltraumschrott. Wie dem auch sei viel Spaß mit dem Video diesmal in HD bei bedarf kann ich auch auch noch die Rohdaten geben :D schreibt mich]

See also …
Official village website …
http://www.schoeffengrund.de

Gallery of the village firefighters (FEUERWEHR/FIRE DEPARTMENT) …
http://www.schoeffengrund.de/deu/gallery/Feuerwehren/Gro%DF%FCbung.html

An unidentified contrail captured on video November 9, 2010 is remarkably similar to an unidentified contrail captured on video last New Year’s Eve. Some experts are saying the incident is actually a jetliner flying from Hawaii toward the United States. Early news reports said the unidentified object was not a threat to the United States because it was heading West. Witnesses that captured the New Year’s Eve event are adamant that the object was not an airplane. The videographer in that case followed the object and could no longer find it — causing him to exclude the conjecture that the object was an aircraft that was flying eastbound and passing overhead.

A missile? A UFO? Or a routine commercial jetliner with a contrail. Then what flight number? And why aren’t other jetliners producing at least some other scale of contrail display?

Video from unidentified image capture by Blaine Rieger on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2009.

YouTube user GrooveTraveler: “The trail rises from behind Santa Catalina Island … This video clearly shows A MISSILE!!! Shot through my Barska 20-60×60 with a Canon PowerShot A1000is.” (Captured December 31, 2009.)

“There is no evidence to suggest that this is anything else other than a condensation trail from an aircraft,”
– Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan, who reiterated that there was no threat to America.

The Defense Department released a statement early Wednesday after saying that the sighting was an airplane, not a missile, that left a mysterious vapor trail off the coast of Southern California.

Spokesmen for the United States Navy, Air Force, Defense Department and North American Aerospace Defense Command said they were looking into a video posted on the CBS News website that appears to show a rocket or some other object shooting up into the sky and leaving a large contrail over the Pacific Ocean. The incident was captured by a camera aboard a CBS affiliate KCBS helicopter.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, issued a statement jointly with the U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, saying that the contrail was not the result of a foreign military launching a missile. It provided no further details.

Officials had no information to make them suspect that the action was taken by any U.S. adversary.

So far the FAA says that no radar picked up any fast-moving objects in the area — even after replaying recorded radar images of the area at the time of the sighting.

Short clip from Sky News.

Flashback to spiral light seen over Norway on December 9, 2009 …

See more videos and links to still photos of Norway rotating spiral light from December 9, 2009 …
The Cardinal Strange Spiral Light Over Norway: Failed Russian Rocket? UFO? VIDEO

Some experts are offering their opinion that the object is actually a an airplane with a contrail that is exaggerated

Blaine Rieger, 17, captured a similar image on New Year’s Eve 12/31/2009 … see it here …
The Cardinal November 8, 2010 ‘Missile Contrail’ Video Similar to Video of Orange County New Year’s Eve 2009 Event

The object was filmed near Lee Highway where it was spotted and moved irratically around the sky for nearly 10 minutes. Bryan Fains, who captured the image, said this ‘was no plane from nearby Dulles Airport.’ The Fains added that the object was silent and didn’t move like any aircraft I’ve ever seen before. He said that he and nearby residents are used to the type of air traffic that flies in the area, and have seen and heard it all — but not a flying blue light.

No explanation for this blue, unidentified flying object.

Accounts of four floating lights floating in Naperville in July 2010 are recalled after recent sightings of floating lights in Manhattan and El Paso, Texas. Witnesses saw four yellow-orange lights at low altitude. The lights changed rates of speed at will without any sound. The YouTube publisher reported that dozens to hundreds of others witnessed the same thing.

We saw them too. The fireworks had just ended in Knoch Park in Naperville and we were headed south in a large crowd of people. Suddenly everyone was stopping in the street and looking up into the sky…we looked up too and saw 4 orange shapes. They did not make any noise and were headed north/northeast. I also saw an airplane…but these were not airplanes. What were they?

- xThunderC Comment on YouTube responding to video above

Some might say that the lights were slow-burning and floating embers from the fireworks fragments. Changing speed may have been due to air currents. Skeptical but curious.

‘Strange and mysterious’ over El Paso, Texas Friday night. One pattern resembled a triangle pattern seen in New York about a week ago.

One witness in Manhattan saw fifty star-like object cluster and spread apart.

Keep in mind, anytime you see three lights that aren’t in a straight line, there is going to be a triangle pattern.

See also …
The Cardinal UFO Lights at Night Over El Paso, Texas Match UFO Lights Over Manhattan in Daylight

One falling light seems to divide into three before a fourth mysteriously appears. All of the lights then hover and disappear.

Amigo Airsho Executive Director Terrie Todd identified the spectacle as a performance by the U.S. Army’s precision parachute team… the Golden Knights. Terrie Todd says that each Knight had attached canisters with flares on their feet to generate light while diving through El Paso’s skies as part of a synchronized stunt.

But what about Manhattan?
Report from myfoxny.com on October 13, 2010: Citizens at 23rd and 8th street in New York halted to look in the sky. For over two hours people stood dumbfounded.

Someone claimed a school released a bunch of balloons.

One witness saw fifty starlike object cluster and spread apart.

News Channel 9 in El Paso shows a triangular pattern of lights that looked similar when displayed side-by-side as a day version and a night. Coincidence?

Balloons?

Air show maneuvers?

An FAA spokesperson near New York says nothing was seen on radar.

See amazing report from Arlington Heights, Illinois of sighting in the late 1960′s — includes artist depiction, detailed description and related photo at Arlingtoncards.com/ufo

VIDEO: Russia Today reports that experts think the light might be a test rocket launched from the White Sea that went out of control and was destroyed, but Russia says, “NYET — no rocket was launched.”

UFO? New phenomena? Alien experiment? Stray Russian rocket? Northern lights? Wormhole? ‘Stargate?’ Hoax?

MYSTISK LYS OVER Nord-Norge?

See beautiful photos of the phenomena published on NRK Nyheter
Tandberg: — Missil ut av kontroll …

Seen from the Inner Harbour in Tromso in northern Norway.
Also seen from Alta in northern Norway.
Seen in all of north Norway and the Trondelag.

Chief Scientist Erik Tandberg, at the Norwegian Space Centre, said that he too was “totally amazed” by the spiral.

Read more with more beautiful pictures …
The Sun: Spiral UFO puts Norway in a spin …

On November 7, 2006 about 4:30 p.m. ground crew radio chatter at O’Hare International Airport started reporting that an object was hovering right above gate C-17 (See excellent witness account here … ‘The November 7 O’Hare UFO Sighting‘). The UFO appeared to be hovering right below the ceiling of the cloud cover (about 700 or 800 feet). The cloud ceiling that day was 1900 feet. The top of the craft was clearly outlined as a very dark gray material, but the bottom and the edges of the craft were reported to be hazy … like when you see the mirage-like surface of the road on a hot day. Witnesses reported that the diameter of the UFO was estimated to be about 30 feet or 10 meters.

OFFICIAL O’HARE WEATHER REPORTS at time of UFO sighting at 4:30 pm …
3:51 PM 53.1 °F 48.0 °F 83% 29.81 in 4.0 miles West 8.1 mph - N/A Haze
4:51 PM 53.1 °F 48.0 °F 83% 29.81 in 5.0 miles SW 4.6 mph - N/A Haze
5:51 PM 53.1 °F 48.0 °F 83% 29.81 in 5.0 miles West 8.1 mph - N/A Haze

On March 21, 2009 a video was released with the source claiming to have a cell phone video of a cigar-shaped UFO “well over 100 meters in length.” The video shows a dark disk or cigar-shaped UFO with a jet (MD-80) that appears to be taking off in the background (the source claims the jet flew under the UFO). The size report from the latest source is in serious conflict with the report from witnesses the day of the incident. It is unlikely that there was a second UFO that would have been missed by the previously-known witnesses. A magnitude of 30 feet and “100 meters” is a big, big difference.

The sky in the background appears to show cumulus clouds in the lower two-thirds of the frame and blue sky in the upper third of the frame. That sky is in conflict with witness accounts and official weather data (overcast and mostly cloudy, ceiling 1900 feet, not broken). Also the amount of light in the sky is too bright for a day in the first week of November at 4:30 p.m. in Chicago. Sunset was at 4:38 p.m. on November 7, 2006. With only about 10 minutes before sunset of a low, Winter sun on a cloudy day in Chicago, the image would probably be a lot darker. It is possible the phone affected the appearance of the lighting, but that is doubtful.

Except for the jet on takeoff, there are no distinguishing landmarks that could associate the video with the O’Hare location.

The audio is also suspect. November 7, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. was rush hour on a Wednesday in Chicago — near O’Hare. There are no sounds of passing cars, freight trucks or any jets taking off or landing. That area is a bustle of energy at that time of day.

This latest account, even though there is video, is not as credible as the accounts from witnesses reporting immediately after the event.

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UPDATE: FEB 16 2009 — Preston Starr, the observatory manager at the University of North Texas has gone on record saying the object was probably a carbonaceous meteor “about the size of a pickup truck … a slow mover, and probably has the consistency of concrete.”

SUN FEB 15 2009 — Eddie Garcia, a news videographer, captured the image of a fireball at the Austin Marathon, and the FAA received “numerous” calls reporting a fireball descending in the sky from people on the ground from Dallas, Texas, south to Austin, Texas. Also, the Texas Department of Public Safety received calls from citizens from Dallas to Houston reporting sonic booms about 11 a.m. The marathon course was located just west of the University of Texas-Austin.

Last week, the Russian and U.S. space agencies reported that two satellites, one Russian and one American (Motorola Iridium), collided about 496 miles (800 kilometers) above Siberia, Russia.

According to U.S. Strategic Command, the satellites collided at 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) per second, producing 500 to 600 pieces of space debris. The speed of 6.2 miles per second is 22,320 miles per hour.

Late Sunday and early morning reports are circulating that the debris from the satellite crash is not related to the Austin, Texas sighting. “There is no correlation between the debris from that collision and those reports of re-entry,” said Maj. Regina Winchester, with STRATCOM.

Related sources …
STRATCOM — Strategic Air Command
AUSTINmarathon — youraustinmarathon.com

Unexplained lights reported at St. Augustine Beach in the early-morning hours of April 14 and Saturday April 19, 2008.

Some speculate these are Sky Lanterns that are released at weddings.

Skylanterns.com

MON APR 21 2008 PHOENIX, AZ — At approximately 8:20 PM Monday night four bright red lights hovered in the night sky. The lights created several different formations for around 7-8 minutes before disappearing — one at-a-time.

One Phoenix resident reported seeing a neighbor launch four Helium balloons with flares attached.

Air traffic controllers in the Sky Harbor control tower saw the lights, but detected nothing on radar.

File photos of F-16 aircraft from the 2004 Chicago Air & Water Show.

WED APR 16 2008 — Loud booms and strings of lights two nights in a row over north-central Indiana may have been Air National Guard 122nd Fighter Wing F-16 fighter jets on training missions.

The booms shook houses in the Kokomo area about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday with similar reports Tuesday over Logansport.

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Police switchboards in Howard and Tipton counties were flooded with calls from residents who saw bright lights just that preceded a loud sound like a sonic boom Wednesday night. Emergency 9-1-1 dispatchers took 146 phone calls within a 15-minute period between 10:25 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. (The 9-1-1 center usually averages 15 to 20 calls between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.)

The Air National Guard was on training missions during the week, but sonic booms were not reported on the official ANG 122nd log. A police official heard jets after he heard one of the booms.

Arlington Heights firefighters were awakened for an unusual alarm at about 3 a.m. Friday. Several clear, frozen objects or debris hit the manufacturing plant of Weber Marking Systems, 711 West Algonquin Road in Arlington Heights, Illinois [MAP/SAT]. Weber Marking Systems world headquarters is located near the plant. No one was near the incident site and no one was injured.

The Arlington Heights Police department and the FAA are investigating the incident. Nobody is saying whether or not the objects are suspected of coming from an aircraft. Blue ice — frozen wastewater — from an aircraft has been ruled out, but icy sources from other water supplies on an aircraft have not been ruled out. The building is in flight paths to and from O’Hare International Airport, which is less than six miles away. The force of the objects — about four inches diameter — was enough to create a two by four-foot hole in the roof and bring the objects through the roof.

Weber Marking Systems is located in at least 16 other countries and designs and produces label printers, labels, such as compact disc labels, and RFID smart labels (radio frequency identification labels).

webermarking.com

People are glad other people saw it, so they know they are not crazy.

JAN 08 2008 (Stephenville, Texas) Several dozen residents reports UFO sightings at different times. One viewer describes a very large object (mile wide craft that moved silently and very low over the terrain) hovering over a forest, about 300 feet in the air. The story is backed up by a pilot and a constable: they report the same type of sighting [MAP/SAT].

Virgil Fowler photos: One photographer capturing the sunset over Lake Travis (almost 150 miles south of Stephenville, Texas), noticed an interesting object in the picture upon closer inspection [MAP/SAT]. Lake Travis is a reservoir on the Colorado River northwest of the city of Austin.

Some residents say they saw fighter jets chasing the UFO.

Military says it had no planes in the area and that the sightings were probably just sightings of a large airliner.

“That’s what they always say, remember?”

More …
Stephenville Empire-Tribune — empiretribune.com

Google Newsfeed: stephenville texas ufo …

People who visited the crater site then experienced headaches, eye problems, irritated skin, irritated throats, irritated nasal passages, nausea and vomiting.

The toxins sulphur and arsenic could possibly have been released from the reaction of the meteor with the ground. It is also possible that methane-rich organic matter from a small lake that may or may not have been caused by a meteor may have caused symptoms. A team of scientist has been summoned to investigate if the site does involve a meteorite.

Keywords: Gas, noxious, meteor, meteorite, UFO

Still frame from video of Warwickshire UFO’s (Photo by Tom Hawkes).

Crowds of hundreds of people from two pubs, cars that were passing by, and neighbors coming out of their houses all witnessed a total of five UFO’s over Warwickshire, United Kingdom on Saturday [MAP/SAT].

The appearance of the lights started just after 10:30 pm, when the lights were seen hovering slowly over the town and three of them formed a triangular shape with a fourth light positioned just to the right.  A brighter fifth light cruised in from the right at a high rate of speed and decelerated and held a position further to the right of the other four lights.

One witness said the crowd response to the spectacle in the sky reminded him of a scene from Independence Day with everyone in locked gazes in amazement at the sky.

Official Responses:

British Earth Aerial Mystery Society (BEAMS)

The MoD (www.mod.uk):

Birmingham Air Space

More …
the Daily Mail UFO Sightings Bring Town to a Standstill

Crowds of hundreds of people from two pubs, cars that were passing by, and neighbors coming out of their houses all witnessed a total of five UFO’s over Warwickshire, United Kingdom on Saturday [MAP/SAT].

The appearance of the lights started just after 10:30 pm, when the lights were seen hovering slowly over the town and three of them formed a triangular shape with a fourth light positioned just to the right.  A brighter fifth light cruised in from the right at a high rate of speed and decelerated and held a position further to the right of the other four lights.

One witness said the crowd response to the spectacle in the sky reminded him of a scene from Independence Day with everyone in locked gazes in amazement at the sky.

Official Responses:

British Earth Aerial Mystery Society (BEAMS)

The MoD (www.mod.uk):

Birmingham Air Space

Of interest is the nature of the callers’ disbelief in what they are seeing. The callers seem to have a need that other callers are validating what they are seeing [MAP/SAT].

See also …
ufocasebook.com post …

A man was reported a UFO and allegedly captured the image of the UFO on his cell phone at his Farmwood Garden Apartment (127 Farmwood Drive) in North Carolina [MAP/SAT]. Occurred early February 2007 — exact date unknown.

Another reported a UFO sighting in Wilkes County during late January 2007.

The object made no noise and traversed the sky in about 45 seconds.

Wilkes County is west Raliegh, North Carolina [MAP/SAT (exact location unknown -- map position is for the Wilkes County Seat)].

United Airlines 747 parked at Gate C-18 (across Terminal 1/Concourse C Building from Gate C-17). A diagram of a 30-foot diameter disc has been inserted (lower left) to show the possible size of the UFO compared to a Boeing 747 [MAP/SAT].

Entire Concourse C showing Gate C-17 where UFO was reported to have hovered directly overhead. “The Ramp” is an area of pavement between Terminal 1/Concourse B and Terminal 1/Concourse C [MAP/SAT].


O’Hare International Airport and west side land adjacent to airport. First north-south road from western border is York Road [MAP/SAT ZOOM OUT]

Peter Danvenport, Director of the National UFO Reporting Center (nuforc.com), was a guest host on the Jeffe Rense Radio Show (rense.com) on December 12, 2006. He brought to the airwaves a telephone interview of a witness of the November 7, 2006 UFO sighting over O’Hare International. The witness is a taxi mechanic who moves aircraft from gate to gate or to the hangars for maintenance. He reported the following.

The person interviewed is one of the people who submitted one of the two reports published on NUFOC.org. He submitted the 11/21/2006 16:08 report on the November 7 incident.

In the radio show conclusion, the talk show hosts clarified that the location of the UFO was in Class B airspace. No craft is supposed to be there without a transponder. They speculated that this was something from another planet and if it was a military craft, why would it be flying right over O’Hare airspace?

About twelve people reported seeing the UFO, including pilots, mechanics, ramp personnel and a manager who ran out of his office in Concourse B to see the object after hearing the chatter on a United Airlines private radio frequency.

United Airlines spokespeople are denying the report. In a Chicago Tribune article by Jon Hilkevitch, Megan McCarthy was quoted saying “There’s nothing in the duty manager log, which is used to report unusual incidents.” But one United pilot says he even opened a windscreen in the cockpit to get a better view of the object as he was taxiing his aircraft. All witnesses wanted to remain anonymous and were advised by United officials to refrain from speaking about what they saw.

Chicago Tribune reporter Jon Hilkevitch also claimed that the FAA backtracked on their original statement that they had no information on the object, after the newspaper filed a Freedom of Information Act request. An internal review of air-traffic communications tapes in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act request found a call by a United supervisor to an FAA manager in the airport tower.

Nevertheless, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory made the following summary statement: “Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon,” she said. “That night was a perfect atmospheric condition in terms of low [cloud] ceiling and a lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the clouds, sometimes you can see funny things. That’s our take on it.”

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