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Here too. The only stuff that is legal is sparkly stuff and things that go "pop" or blow smoke or sparks in your face. I don't know why folks bother with those, especially with fire risks now. So then people buy illegal stuff and it sounds...

Illegal sky lanterns are pretty weak. One New Year's Eve at midnight in the central L.A. area... Sitting in a friend's livingroom. The gunfire was so intense, I put a stainless steel bowl over my head... only half joking. Not even half.

Just to get it on record in this thread, the wind can vary in direction and speed at different altitudes. People break such laws. Fireworks that go up and go boom are illegal where I live, but on the Fourth of July, Cinco de Mayo or New Years...

Just to get it on record in this thread, the wind can vary in direction and speed at different altitudes. People break such laws. Fireworks that go up and go boom are illegal where I live, but on the Fourth of July, Cinco de Mayo or New Years...

Quote from Marc Dantonio's Facebook page in the OP, There are: NO FAA lights, just a singular light that fades slowly with each exposure But aircraft at a distance at night are often visible only as single points of light. Strobing lights and...

A lot of these dives into federal document troves just seem to be efforts to whitewash the lore. Someone writes up a nutty, lore-based conspiracy theory (or falls for or makes a hoax) and sends it into a federal office. Federal office is...

More Sky Lantern videos. These were all reuploaded by a guy who has been collecting IFO videos together. I don't know what channels they originally came from. This one is notable for how agitated some of the witnesses are. The fires going...

Done. Camera/FOV/Fisheye https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/DAntonio%20all_sky%20streak/20260827_121840.js I was already working on it. I'd been meaning to do it for a while, but this was the case that actually seemed to need it. I...

Oh dang you're right, I'd been looking at the time by the 2024-07-01 date but must have glanced at the Sunrise datetime which is for 2024-07-02 and then merged them together and written that one down.

Hang on @Kyle Ferriter the date on your ADSB playbacks is out by a day - the time should be 04:19UTC on 2024-07-02, not Jul 03. But funnily enough there was another KC135 at the right date & time following a very similar flight path...