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Subject ANOTHER "Mysterious Bubble" formed! "Huge spherical illuminant was seen in the sky"

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Remember the one seen over Hawaii?

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Asterisk board member calvin 737 was the first to suggest it might be related to a Minuteman III missile launch around that time. As more people on the forum dug into it, the timing was found to be right. The missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base (in California) at 03:35 Hawaii time, just minutes before the halo was seen. I noticed the stars of Cassiopeia are visible in the webcam, so the view was to the northeast, which is the right direction to see the missile as well.

OK, the timing and direction are perfect, so the rocket is clearly the culprit… but how, exactly?

One suggestion was that it’s due to the shock wave as the supersonic missile blew through the tenuous upper atmosphere. I’ve heard some rumblings that this might be the cause, but I’m not convinced. I thought shock excitation has to be pretty strong to get air to glow (any experts out there willing to comment?) and the movement of the missile may not be enough for that. Also, in that case I’d expect to see more of a disk pattern than a thin ring, since the missile would be continuously blowing through the (very tenuous) atmosphere. The thin ring indicates to me this was most likely a single, short event. And if you posit the shock wave wasn’t continuous as the missile moved, but instead was generated rapidly and ceased (maybe as the missile pierced some atmospheric layer) I don’t see how a shock wave would create a ring that moves physically across the sky; it would expand away from a single point. Again, this idea doesn’t convince me.

[Note: see update below; I realized there may be a little bit more to this idea.]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/29/awesomely-weird-expanding-halo-of-light-seen-from-hawaii/
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Yes, the missile launch seems to fit with the Hawaii bubble.  However, the China bubble is not over water, but "glowing" over the Beijing area.  Also, the Hawaii bubble seemed to grow and then dissipate rapidly.  The new China bubble expanded over the area for quite a while.  More info needed....
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Original Message What could be causing this?

"Astronomers in Beijing can’t quite put their finger on the composition or origin of a giant, expanding bubble that appeared Saturday in thee night sky at around 9 p.m. China time."

"According to the Oriental Morning Post, the pilot of airliner CZ6554 wrote micro blog that a "huge spherical illuminant was seen in the sky, 10,700 meters above Shanghai at 9 pm on August 20. The luminant was really round and getting huger, (looks) hundreds times bigger than the moon and the diameter of the luminant was longer than 50 sea miles".

Almost at the same time, a strange, bubble-like expanding light was reported from Beijing, Shanxi and Anhui provinces, reports say.

[link to au.news.yahoo.com]

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