On the night of July 19-20, users of the well-known weather.gov Doppler Radar USA service noticed a more than strange object that appears and disappears over Texas:
To reflect the information received by the radar, the service uses the dBZ scale - an immeasurable conventional logarithmic unit for comparing the reflection coefficient (Z) of a radar signal from different parts of the atmosphere. dBZ is proportional to the number of drops per unit volume and is thus used to estimate the intensity of rain or snow. Therefore, based on the graphical data of the radar, a red spot over Texas means that it is raining heavily there, water is simply pouring out of the atmosphere like a wall. But what kind of rain is it that appears and disappears within a few seconds?
To clarify the situation, the service provides a click on the region to be enlarged, which allows you to see the area with precipitation in detail. However, clicking on the red spot produced the following result:
The situation arose rather strange, because either this is such a software glitch, which is very likely, or a huge object the size of a metropolis hangs over Texas, which is incredible in principle.
While service users were actively arguing on this score, trying to come to a consensus, another service, livemeteors.com, produced an equally amazing picture:
Promotional video:
The operating principle of Live Meteors is very simple and is clearly shown in the figure:
When a meteorite comes into contact with the upper atmosphere of the planet, colliding with air molecules, it leaves behind a strip of ionization kilometers long. This ionized trail occurs at altitudes of about 85-105 kilometers and persists for several seconds, sometimes minutes, if the meteorite is large enough.
The ionized band in the upper atmosphere has slightly different physical characteristics than the ambient air, therefore it is capable of reflecting radio signals, which is what livemeteors.com successfully uses. He uses a television tower in Canada, broadcasting at a frequency of about 55.24 MHz, as a radio signal source, and as a receiver, a specially built detector located in the USA, in Washington.
Thus, at the moment when the weather.gov Doppler Radar showed a huge, incomprehensible dense patch over Texas, Live Meteors recorded a stream of small objects entering the atmosphere over the United States. It was a real meteor shower that the entire state should have watched. But on the night from July 19 to July 20, no one saw any meteorites over Texas, therefore, that the radars were registered for everyone is a mystery.
The simplest explanation is a fantastic one. It suggests that a huge UFO hovered over Texas, which was approached by a stream of small UFOs. Perhaps it was a transport ship, perhaps there were some other flights.
The version, as everyone understands, is quite wild and almost insane, but - how else can all this be explained? Did two software glitches happen on two unrelated services at the same time? We do not know the answer to this question.
