i want to start this off by saying i have no interest in debating whether or not anyone reading this believes me. That is NOT the reason for this post. Im just curious if someone could help me understand, using physics, how i could have seen it, or how it could possibly be explained.
My brother and i saw a defused white light hovering over lake ontario. It was close enough to the water that it cast a light onto the water. It just looked like a boat light or something. It remained perfectly stationary for a few moments. Then, within a matter of less than two seconds, it shot into space. When it did this, a long streak of white light was still visible from where it was, up into space. The light “trail” then shrunk in the direction of the object. Like the light travelled in the direction of the object, slower than the object itself. Whats even stranger is the fact that this relatively small “boat light” then stopped in space and looked exactly like the stars in the sky around it. The light trail followed it. The only way to explain it is how id imagine a faster than light space craft might look. I should also mention the light streak curved like a swoop.
Heres a video of something similar to what we saw, only in reverse, and without the light trail:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=STj_D_R0lWY&feature=youtu.be
So. Two things. 1) what would explain the light streak going slower than the object? And 2) how would it be possible for such a seemingly small ball of light to turn into something as massive as a star?
My brother and i saw a defused white light hovering over lake ontario. It was close enough to the water that it cast a light onto the water. It just looked like a boat light or something. It remained perfectly stationary for a few moments. Then, within a matter of less than two seconds, it shot into space. When it did this, a long streak of white light was still visible from where it was, up into space. The light “trail” then shrunk in the direction of the object. Like the light travelled in the direction of the object, slower than the object itself. Whats even stranger is the fact that this relatively small “boat light” then stopped in space and looked exactly like the stars in the sky around it. The light trail followed it. The only way to explain it is how id imagine a faster than light space craft might look. I should also mention the light streak curved like a swoop.
Heres a video of something similar to what we saw, only in reverse, and without the light trail:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=STj_D_R0lWY&feature=youtu.be
So. Two things. 1) what would explain the light streak going slower than the object? And 2) how would it be possible for such a seemingly small ball of light to turn into something as massive as a star?
