Bright Red/Orange Glowing Contrail At Night Over West Palm Beach Florida

 

Date:  January 19, 2012

Time:  Between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

 

Between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. on January 19, 2012 I was in my backyard watching some F-16s land at Palm Beach international Airport.

It is unusual for those airplanes to be coming and going from that airport, so I grabbed my binoculars thinking that there might be an Air Force two or something of that nature coming in.

As I looked north at approximately 350° northwest, I saw a bright orange light with visible contrails with blue sky behind it. You could tell it was reentering the atmosphere as a contrail was hit by the sun.

The sun had been set for over two hours. It was extremely bright and as the contrails subsided its red/orange glow continued to be extremely bright.

I watched it for approximately 1 1/2 to 2 minutes and from approximately 350° to 100° southeast. The bright orange glow did not fade away as would as a comet.

It simply just turned off the color from bright orange to invisible.

With the F-16s scouting the area, I thought it might be one of those new unmanned military shuttle vehicles coming in. But the direction that they were going would land somewhere in Puerto Rico, or the Atlantic Ocean.

I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Thank you.

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