[NorthernLight (Max)]

Hi All,

Has somebody seen this, too?

last night whilst shooting M16 I saw an object flying by with relatively high velocity and during the brief moment I saw it, it appeared tumbling at a very high rate. Could this have been the decending UAR-Satelite?

details:

location: East Auckland
date: 24 Sept 2011
time: 00:03(am) NZ time
trajectory: coming from south going north towards Hauraki gulf
colour: yellowish-orange
time observed: 2 seconds
remarks: no sound, no tail, was not able to visually follow the object (as I could have visually followed a disappearing plane)

side note: about 10 minutes later a smoke, dust or water vapour cloud rose from the direction the object had disappeared to and remained visible for 15min (could have been a chimney but there was no smell but also no audible impact sound, I actually don´t think its related at all but who knows?)

I have seen many shooting stars and this was not one of the usuals.

Would be great if somebody could confirm the sighting or confirm that UARS definetely was not on a south-north trajectory.

Cheers