We are new to this list so forgive us if we make some faux pas but we saw the object last night and thought someone might be able to make some educated guesses as to what it was based on our descriptions. We live in Hays, Kansas, USA, not far from the geographic center of the US. Sorry, don't know the lat/long. It was shortly after 7:00 p.m. Central time. The object was on the southern horizon and its path was from roughly southwest to northeast. The sun had just set below the horizon but it was still light out. As it climbed from the southern horizon, we noticed a bright object with a heavy contrail. We have lots of jets flying over Kansas so it isn't all that unusual to see the sun reflecting off of the jet with its contrail behind it. But most of these jets are flying in a east/west or vice versa direction. We soon realized it was not a jet, as it was going too fast. As climbed into the sky relative to our position, it began to break apart. Some of the pieces glowed bluish green, pink, and reddish orange. At apogee, we noticed two bright objects ahead of the main contrail and these two continued to track northeast until they disappeared. The whole episode lasted maybe a minute. Its was at about a 45 degree angle to the horizon and went approximately 3/4 of the way from the southern horizon to the northern. There was no sound associated with it. The contrail remained in the sky for many minutes afterward and in fact was still there as the sky darkened about 5 or 10 minutes later. I suppose it could have been a meteor but our money is on it being a piece of space junk. Bob and Joan -- **************************** Robert & Joan Wilhelm 1472 Hwy 183 Alt. Hays KS 67601-9212 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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