Question about the night sky?

Question

when i look at the sky at night i see a ball of light traveling through the sky and then after a while it just disappears there not planes or anything there just these balls of light little metoers i guess

Answer 1

If the thing you saw looked like it was travelling fairly slowly, it was probably an Iridium satellite.  Meteors tend to flash across the sky in a second or two.  

Iridium satellites have very reflective antennae and because the thing rotates, the reflections from the sun (which of course has set over the horizon) create a short-term flash that can be brighter than any stars or planets.

If it was apparantly slow moving, it was an Iridium.  If it flashed across the sky, it was a meteor.

Answer 2

No, its not an alien space ship, and no it isn't a plane. You are probably seeing a satellite if it isn't blinking or anything. Meteors can only be seen for maybe a second before they dissingrate, and you don't see them very often. Satellites on the other hand, are small dots of light moving straight across the night sky... I see them all the time. You can even see them in areas with bad light pollution... like where I live.

Satellites can be seen every night because there are so many satellites orbiting Earth. You'd be suprised how many satellites are up there orbiting! Although not all of them that can be seen, a majority of them can. The ISS is the easiest to see, because it is big. Many small satellites can be seen, but aren't as easy to spot.

Satellites often dissapear after 10 seconds, or can't be found after you look at them for a while because they light is very faint.

Answer 3

You would be suprised and what you find out is actually an airplane. The fly over 10k feet (about 3.3k meters) above the ground so escpecially at night it would be hard to identify it as an airplane.

It could possibly be meteoroids/asteroids that you are seeing because the earth is being constanly bombarded with small asteroids but because they are so small they disinegrate before they can fully make it through the atmosphere. That would explain the disapperance. The actual light from an meteoroid is actually just the trail it leaves behind of light since the actual rock itself is not luminescent.

I think that it could easily be airplanes or meteoroids.

Answer 4

haha nah dude

thats aliens lol =]

Answer 5

careful there since your the only one seeing this you might be the only one to get abducted...lol jk

r u sure u dont live near a military base?

Answer 6

goodness gracious great balls of fire  

Answer 7

it has to be shooting stars

Answer 8

Maybe satelliates.

Answer 9

You must be very observant.  I'm only lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a meteor entering our atmosphere once in a while.  In fact, there are on average 3 or 4 meteors that cross part of the night sky every hour.  That's just on a normal night.  If you're paying close attention, I'm sure you could end up seeing at least one every night.

When there is a meteor shower, like the Perseid meteor shower earlier this week, the number that you will see increases to one or more per minute.  If you were watching the sky in a clear area on the 12th of August, you probably many balls of light.  The light is caused by the energy of the shock wave created by the meteor.  Even small meteors cause shock waves because they are traveling very fast. The brightest flashes (not necessarily caused by the largest meteors) are called "fireballs"  For the brief time that they light up the sky, they will appear brighter than any other star.

I hope you continue to see these.  You must enjoy watching the sky!

Answer 10

If these lights move in a straight line and you see no blinking lights associated with them, then they're almost certainly artificial satellites and/or spent rocket boosters.

Answer 11

Eight wagons in eight wagons out

or is it Trucks