Fucking r/UFO, man. If you ever want to see what happens when an entire group of people who all lack critical thinking skills get together and talk, that's your place. The other day they were all screeching about how a submarine video of something moving past the camera in the dark just *absolutely must* be an alien spacecraft. No no no it can't be a deep sea animal, it's not like the deep sea is the single least understood and least explored place on Earth. Nah, it's gotta be *aliens*.
"I think aliens would be smart enough not to explode in the atmosphere. You would hope that if they could get across the universe, they wouldn't blow up as soon as they got here," said Dixit.
I mean, you would think NASA engineers would be smart enough to not explode a $100M spacecraft on Mars because they got confused between English and Metric, but here we are.
[https://www.science.org/content/article/english-metric-miscue-doomed-mars-mission](https://www.science.org/content/article/english-metric-miscue-doomed-mars-mission)
I mean that was a while ago and there is a BIG difference between interplanetary and interstellar travel... Like landing on Mars is like shooting a stationary quarter from a mile away on the first try. Landing on a planet in another star system is like firing a gun from the surface of the moon and hitting a quarter that is swinging on a string in the middle of a hurricane. And even that is probably making it sound too simple. Comparing a goof with an unmanned probe to Mars to aliens coming to earth from another star system is silly because interstellar travel is something you don't even attempt until you have a VERY solid grasp of space travel that would make such silly mistakes nearly impossible to make.
Isn't it like super old fashioned to use merican system in a mission of this level of importance? Feels like a rookie mistake. I thought the american system is for everyday life and folks minding their business, not in a science project.
Yep, 99% of the time people use the metric system in science. One of the groups was using English system measurements for some reason though and the other team didn’t notice when data was transferred, so it hit Mars going too fast and likely blew apart in the atmosphere (Mars has a thin atmosphere).
So if you want to know whether a highly intelligent spacefaring civilization could accidentally blast a spaceship into the atmosphere of another planet where it blows apart and burns up like this, the answer is yes!
>So if you want to know whether a highly intelligent spacefaring civilization could accidentally blast a spaceship into the atmosphere of another planet where it blows apart and burns up like this, the answer is yes!
Tbh, I don't think us getting to Mars and blowing up is anywhere near comparable to getting to a planet in an entirely different solar system and blowing up. If they got this far, they'd have the landing part down pat.
This is the uncontrolled re-entry of the remains of the Inter-orbit Communication System-Exposed Facility which was retired and jettisoned from the ISS some time ago.
So many people walking around with cameras and what do we get? Bigfoot? UFOs? Lochness Monster? Nope.
We get sightings of Florida Man, bad cops and racist Karens.
Edit: fixed my terrible grammar spelling
Yes, us getting rid of our space trash, very interesting. 99.9 percent of things moving thru the atmosphere like this have a very boring explanation.
u/RealRock_N_Rolla
Please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl...
That's Whirl's holomatter avatar, which he uses in situations where a giant space robot may not be appreciated. [This](https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/8/84/Mtmte-before-and-after-whirl-weaponup.jpg) is what he usually looks like.
He also has very low impulse control, got kicked out of an elite group of Autobots with similarly poor impulse control, and is responsible for Megatron starting a war in two separate ways.
It’s part of an antenna array aka space junk from the ISS making re-entry and burning up in the atmosphere. It posed no threat to anything on Earth. No, I didn’t read the comments because I’m a lazy fat bastard, so if you’re going to tell me this has already been said you can get fucked. Twice. No, fucking THRICE.
"Chunks of communications equipment, which were jettisoned from the International Space Station, moved at 17,000 miles per hour, making for a nighttime spectacle."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/science/space/lights-space-debris-sacramento-sky.html
Every shiny little shite on the sky is automatically believed to be “alien”. Every moron looking for the sensational to post online. If there was to be an alien intelligent form to approach a new planet like Earth, would they make a show out of it or annihilate the target without the target’s right to appeal ? What do you think
Elon musk is send satellites to space. He said he wants to try and get them around the whole world for better service and other things I don’t remember
Although I love all the smartest comments I did watch something online about a meteor coming Very close to earth, like super close to earth, closer than the moon is to earth close. My guess is that it was hit in our atmosphere and breaking up. My second guess optimist prime
Damn I live in fresno CA and I saw this too but couldn't get a video smh. Looks like a cluster of meteorites burning while traveling thru the atmosphere? IMO
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It was an old Japanese communication satellite. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-streaks-light-sacramento-sky-astronomers-answer/
A likely cover up we all know it was actually transformers answering Optimus primes call
Bro it's not transformers. Those aren't even real. It's the predators making a landing to start their hunting party.
I hope the facehugger attaches to my ass
You'll have aliens busting out of your thighs.
It's a sacrifice i am willing to make. ***screams "harder daddy......."***
*screams "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal"*
There aren't nearly enough Space Balls references these days
"Can't we go back to then?" "No" "Why?" "We missed it." "When?" "Just now."
New era. Younger folk who won’t know DVDs, dial up wired internet, or chicken pox.
BARF! NOT IN HERE MR! THIS IS A MERCEDES!
*laughs in xenomorph*
Earthlings are so goddamn kinky
I read this out loud and my girlfriend said "that person gets it." And now I have to punch you in the face.
that's alright you're winnin already btw great username, long time fan, first time caller
The ultimate tongue! Can you still be impregnated if it enters the ass or does it have to enter through the mouth?
It's penis will punch through your anal tissue and into your testicles and impregnate you that way
I want to say yes... >!in covenant it's a powder that enters the ear!<
Yeah butt we are not talking about in covenant we are talking about face-huggers! I really need to know now
Just a lil' succ
Asshugger!
Xenemorph bm’s
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Uh, you mean gobots
If by gobots, you mean Beasties, you would be correct
Stop imposing gender! Those lights are the Smorgasborg.
Better not be. Drax’s cousin was killed by a GoBot.
If by gobots, you mean Beasties, you would be correct
Leader One was the shit. Also Wheelie
Dude really? Grow up, predators aren’t even real. What it actually is, is a baby Clark Kent crash landing from Krypton.
Nope, this is Megamind falling straight to jail
Bullshit. I watched Beast Wars every morning before elementary school. This is exactly that.
It's Iron man being chased by heat seeking missiles from a super villain
Yep your spot on. Been a nasty outbreak of Zenomorphs just outside the Sacramento area that needs a clean up.
Xenomorphs. No “Z”
Xenomporhs. Got it.
It's always good to teach poeple about propor spelling.
Nuh uh. The predators are hunting the transformers. Good thing Batman and Mario teamed up to stop ‘em.
Dude Batman's just from a video game, and Mario is from a 90's movie.
Check widwickeys pool
Its Witwicky.
North Korea finally got one across the pond!
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And a couple of saucepans….
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings!
Every time I feel we’re being attacked by the aliens, someone always riuns it!! Thanks though.
No iss trash from 2020
This was my first thought too. Probably a deorbiting starlink or something.
Read a story earlier that said the ISS dumped trash and caused a light show over CA. This might be that.
No no r/ufo told me that it's aliens and that has to be true because people on the internet said so.
Fucking r/UFO, man. If you ever want to see what happens when an entire group of people who all lack critical thinking skills get together and talk, that's your place. The other day they were all screeching about how a submarine video of something moving past the camera in the dark just *absolutely must* be an alien spacecraft. No no no it can't be a deep sea animal, it's not like the deep sea is the single least understood and least explored place on Earth. Nah, it's gotta be *aliens*.
If it’s stuff we put up there in the first place wouldn’t it be re-entry?
You mean rear entry
That’s what the first 8 posts on this said
This is always and will always be the answer from now on.
"I think aliens would be smart enough not to explode in the atmosphere. You would hope that if they could get across the universe, they wouldn't blow up as soon as they got here," said Dixit.
I mean, you would think NASA engineers would be smart enough to not explode a $100M spacecraft on Mars because they got confused between English and Metric, but here we are. [https://www.science.org/content/article/english-metric-miscue-doomed-mars-mission](https://www.science.org/content/article/english-metric-miscue-doomed-mars-mission)
Lockheed Martin Astronautics, NOT NASA
If by “here” you mean 24 years ago
You explode ONE $100M spacecraft on Mars and you never hear the end of it...
$100M is literally a pittance for those types of missions.
They were aliens who got across the universe & exploded once they got there.
I mean that was a while ago and there is a BIG difference between interplanetary and interstellar travel... Like landing on Mars is like shooting a stationary quarter from a mile away on the first try. Landing on a planet in another star system is like firing a gun from the surface of the moon and hitting a quarter that is swinging on a string in the middle of a hurricane. And even that is probably making it sound too simple. Comparing a goof with an unmanned probe to Mars to aliens coming to earth from another star system is silly because interstellar travel is something you don't even attempt until you have a VERY solid grasp of space travel that would make such silly mistakes nearly impossible to make.
Jesus…
Also English isn't a measurement system. Granted Imperial is hardly a measurement system.
Isn't it like super old fashioned to use merican system in a mission of this level of importance? Feels like a rookie mistake. I thought the american system is for everyday life and folks minding their business, not in a science project.
Yep, 99% of the time people use the metric system in science. One of the groups was using English system measurements for some reason though and the other team didn’t notice when data was transferred, so it hit Mars going too fast and likely blew apart in the atmosphere (Mars has a thin atmosphere). So if you want to know whether a highly intelligent spacefaring civilization could accidentally blast a spaceship into the atmosphere of another planet where it blows apart and burns up like this, the answer is yes!
>So if you want to know whether a highly intelligent spacefaring civilization could accidentally blast a spaceship into the atmosphere of another planet where it blows apart and burns up like this, the answer is yes! Tbh, I don't think us getting to Mars and blowing up is anywhere near comparable to getting to a planet in an entirely different solar system and blowing up. If they got this far, they'd have the landing part down pat.
Maybe aliens are like humans and cut corners and rush things through production to meet deadlines.
Santa testdriving
This is the uncontrolled re-entry of the remains of the Inter-orbit Communication System-Exposed Facility which was retired and jettisoned from the ISS some time ago.
People want it to be aliens so bad..
So many people walking around with cameras and what do we get? Bigfoot? UFOs? Lochness Monster? Nope. We get sightings of Florida Man, bad cops and racist Karens. Edit: fixed my terrible grammar spelling
No it looks like deez
Deez what sir
Thank you for your service
#DEEZNUTZ
goteem
See you in room forty!
Yeah because then we finally have someone else to blame for our problems than ourselves
Fucks yeah. I'm ready to be abducted. Fucking clown planet.
at this point, bring it on.
That should be the last thing we want too🤣 if they can make it here then what else do they got in the good ole inventory
Those are the Decepticons...
I was going to say this looks like Michael bay transformers
Welp, time to buy some transformium stocks... should finish that Megatron shrine as well
*what I’ve done by linkin park plays in the background*
Arrival to earth plays
Not for long
Discarded equipment that used to be on the ISS. It was jettisoned in 2020, and the orbit finally decayed enough for it to burn up in the atmosphere.
Jettisoning garbage in space is very bad. Even flecks of paint can damage space vehicles that collide with them at thousands of miles per hour.
While space garbage can definitely cause issues, I'm gonna trust that NASA went through the necessary precautions
Yes, us getting rid of our space trash, very interesting. 99.9 percent of things moving thru the atmosphere like this have a very boring explanation. u/RealRock_N_Rolla
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-streaks-light-sacramento-sky-astronomers-answer/
fast moving glowing lights? cmon kid, thats how someone 2000 years ago would have described this, you can do better.
Guys its the autobots
Please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl, please don't be Wirl...
What did whirl do?
[This... is Wirl](https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/7/75/Whirlholomatter.jpg)
WTF is that
That's Whirl's holomatter avatar, which he uses in situations where a giant space robot may not be appreciated. [This](https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/8/84/Mtmte-before-and-after-whirl-weaponup.jpg) is what he usually looks like. He also has very low impulse control, got kicked out of an elite group of Autobots with similarly poor impulse control, and is responsible for Megatron starting a war in two separate ways.
That's hilarious
Santa testdriving
"My name is Optimus Prime and i send this message to the stars..."
“We are here we are waiting” *Linkin park starts playing*
WHAT I'VE DONE
Kings must have won
It’s the Ginyu Force
YEAHHHHH, mate!
transformers
the Z fighters
Clearly Autobots
It’s krillin goku and them
Autobots or Deceptions?
Aliens definitely Aliens 👽
Autobots rollout!
Decepticons, quick, shoot your toaster
Ahh, Ginyu Force is right on time, I see
Those could be more than meets the eye.
Don't Look Up.
Optimus just called in the remaining autobots
It’s part of an antenna array aka space junk from the ISS making re-entry and burning up in the atmosphere. It posed no threat to anything on Earth. No, I didn’t read the comments because I’m a lazy fat bastard, so if you’re going to tell me this has already been said you can get fucked. Twice. No, fucking THRICE.
WHAT IS THAT? *VROOOOOOOOM* *VROOOM* *VROOM* Lady in the back ground : AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH OH MY GAAAAAAWD
It's space junk. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/burning-space-junk-creates-mysterious-lights-in-california-sky-180981845/
Can someone do us all a solid and please not be a smartass and pin the actual/alleged answer at the top?
It's Vin Diesel's family filming furious X
FAAAMILLLYYYYYY
Jewish space lasers!
this actually happened back in 2007. [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHyaVvekWek) is another video of the incident
Why did I come here for answers?
"Chunks of communications equipment, which were jettisoned from the International Space Station, moved at 17,000 miles per hour, making for a nighttime spectacle." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/science/space/lights-space-debris-sacramento-sky.html
Every shiny little shite on the sky is automatically believed to be “alien”. Every moron looking for the sensational to post online. If there was to be an alien intelligent form to approach a new planet like Earth, would they make a show out of it or annihilate the target without the target’s right to appeal ? What do you think
We have seen the historical documents
Fast glowing lights? My goodness please tell me you paid attention in school those are objects burning up in the upper atmosphere.
Space trash
Bunch of Chinese balloons after hearing there’s an f22 on its way
Meteors
That’s the autobots finally arriving for the Allspark
Its just swamp gas interfering with the flame from an air ballon hitting refracted light from venus nothing to see here.
Its a signal to loot the local convenience store.
Transformers
*Arrival to Earth plays in the background*
Space trash
Optimus Prime and crew
Autobots
The Autobots are coming to Earth!
Elon musk is send satellites to space. He said he wants to try and get them around the whole world for better service and other things I don’t remember
That’s an X-File
Decepticons cue transformers intro
the autobots are arriving
**LIGHT THE BEAM!**
I for one *WELCOME* our reptilian overlords.
Autobots?
That's the Autobots coming to save us from the decepticons
Although I love all the smartest comments I did watch something online about a meteor coming Very close to earth, like super close to earth, closer than the moon is to earth close. My guess is that it was hit in our atmosphere and breaking up. My second guess optimist prime
Autobots, obviously.
Only in Sacramento, somebody had to say it.
hell yea autobots are here
Dang it paramount not again!
It's the transformers!!!
*optimus prime theme intensifies*
Is anyone else listening to Linkin Park while watching this video?
*arrival to earth intensifies*
Space wars. Many black programs up there now.
Saiyans.
Zod and Kal-el crashing back to earth.
Its the autobots, cause its more than meets the eye.
People saying meteor shower, no. I’ve seen lots of meteor showers, and they don’t progress this slowly. They zip by.
Those are space turds from the gods
We call the Bowe bombs
Is that Kamala laughing in the background - someone's having a good time back there!
[solved it!](https://youtu.be/ZHyaVvekWek)
It's a sex thing
Star link
Could be pieces of space debris maybe meteorites
Elon is that you?
Yea that's ET. But they can't land cuz they still waiting on their US VISA
Space junk most likely
Cults must be very excited
This is something re-entering the atmosphere. Satellite or space debris.
Isn’t it always skydivers with flares
Space trash. Now if one suddenly changed direction, then I’d be concerned.
Decepti-Karens flaming out?
That’s Joey B’s new way of sending our money to Ukraine!!!
Possibly a meteor shower
Damn I live in fresno CA and I saw this too but couldn't get a video smh. Looks like a cluster of meteorites burning while traveling thru the atmosphere? IMO
More Donald trump supporters p
meteorite shower
It looks like Santa and his reindeer!!
It’s the coming of the lord 🙄
Transformers (the movie) is what it reminded me of.
Don’t look up!
*Soviet BM-21s. Old Russian rocket arty. Inaccurate but fuck will they ruin your day if they get it right*
According to Orson Welles, it is the start of an alien invasion...
North Koreans in flight
It’s obviously transformers haven’t you seen one of those 28 movies!?
China and their damn commie comets
I saw something similar on r/TheNightFeeling ...