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[Wil Milan <wmilan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brett,

I saw that one too. We were about 100 miles north of you, on a small 
plateau southeast of Kingman, and it was a spectacular sight, long and 
slow, traveling east to west while flashing many different colors, 
rivalling the brightest Leonid fireball we saw the whole night. I *think* 
one of the color cameras caught the end of it; if it did I'll post the 
image as soon as I have it.

I figure it had to be a piece of space junk, as indicated by the 
west-to-east trajectory, slow speed, and many different colors (indicating 
flame ionization of many different materials).

Wil M.


At 10:48 AM 11/18/2001, you wrote:

>on the way home from the kofa site (which i'll post a report on when i'm
>lucid), about 30 miles out of phoenix on I-10, at approx. 5:45am...  i saw
>a wonderful flaming/green bolide streaking low on the northern horizon,
>going west to east.  i dont' see how it could have been a leonid.  it was
>*huge*...  probably a finger-width held out at arms length.  it was about
>10 degrees above the horizon to the north.
>
>it caught my eye with the flash as it entered the atmosphere.  i paniced as
>i thought maybe a plane was coming down on me :)
>
>it flashed brightly, and then trailed a wispy, wide trail of green for
>about 20 degrees before dying.  no persistance in the trail though.  it was
>*awesome*, in addition to quite a good night.
>
>-b
>
>
>
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Wil Milan
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