Tiny asteroids will do that, at just about that angle and just about that effect. Figure a ten pound or smaller piece of celestial rock, traveling at relatively high speed, piercing a puffy cloud. Has anyone puffed a breath through cigarette smoke, it's the same thing. Shoot a BB through cigar smoke, you'll see.
Yep, I say asteroid. Little ones hit the ground all the time. Big ones are seen at night.
Now, catching it on camera makes it a UFO for sure. The military definition is unidentified flying object. It's not space ships with green men but, a space ship like earth, traveling through the neighborhood. UFOs are spotted all the time.
Asteroid.
One more visual... a cannon going off with lots of smoke would make a perfect forward moving ring of smoke.
Yep, I say asteroid. Little ones hit the ground all the time. Big ones are seen at night.
A) Asteroids are miniature planets which orbit the sun. They do NOT hit the earth, if they did there would be one hell of a crater, or a huge tsunami if one hit the ocean.
B) Meteors are smaller objects which do enter the earth's atmosphere; if they hit before they burn up they are called a meteorite.
C) Meteors are engulfed in flames when they pass through the atmosphere due to the extremely high heat generated by them passing through the air at a very high speed. That is why they are sometimes called shooting stars.
D) A meteor would have a downwards trajectory, not a horizontal trajectory.
E) That object was not a meteor, since it was not glowing or on fire, it was traveling horizontally and apparently at a consistent altitude.
D) A meteor would have a downwards trajectory, not a horizontal trajectory.
Not necessarily. Some meteors can pass through the upper atmosphere and return back to space without either breaking up or touching down. One did that back in the 60's, or maybe 50's, which was filmed. It was a glowing fireball that arched through the sky and then returned to space.
I'd suggest that most meteors do not head straight down to the ground, but instead come in at some respectable angle.
Not necessarily. Some meteors can pass through the upper atmosphere and return back to space without either breaking up or touching down. One did that back in the 60's, or maybe 50's, which was filmed. It was a glowing fireball that arched through the sky and then returned to space.
If they skim the atmosphere, yes that is true. But this object was below the cloud cover, so it was almost at ground level relatively speaking.