I am trying to send this again as my first attempt did not go to the list. I saw something, that appeared to be the reentry. I did not know that anything was due to reenter but while I was out looking at sats I saw something that looked to be a possible reentry. At about 2:55Z (or just before) something in the north caught my attention. Blazing across the sky was multiple burning objects. When I first saw them they were near the north star and they continued toward the east, and disappeared due east. I was not paying close attention to time or position while I was watching such a sight but I think they may have been just above the north star when I first saw them and might have reached about 50 degrees max elv. I'd estimate it took close to 15 seconds to go from the north to the east. The trajectory seemed to match 22273 but from the elset below it should have passed to my southwest about 75 degree elv. Since it was 5 minutes or so early that would have changed it. A notable characteristic of these fireballs was that they were not just bright objects trailing fire, but had a glow or haze around them. There also was not a lot of continuous bright fireballs. Its not the easiest to make a picture with words but it was not like the bright sharp meteors with thin trails. My first decay sighting. AWESOME! And right after that I got to see USA 160 (C) and USA 160, 20 to 30 degrees up in the southwest shining brightly at 0 mag or so. They caught my attention because there was not to be two bright stars there so close together. Floyd Weaver Lebanon PA 40.39N -76.42W ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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