Do meteors change direction during re-entry?

I would say it is not a meteor.

It would not take that long to descend and it would not remain illuminated for very long once it passed our atmosphere - if it was a meteor.

I suspect whatever it was, had a fire retardent as part of its makeup because it took a very long time for it to disintergrate. It would have to be an object comprised of light weight material for it to change direction so that also compells me to believe it is not a meteor.

I suspect it is a man made craft or satellite.

New note:

In this case it is an "Unidentified Burning Object" so anything could be applicable -UFO -Satellite-Space craft. There were some situations where the government in another country had to blow up their sattelite because it was defective -

Anything is possible :0)

Good video but I would say a hoax. My instinct tells me that it smells of a setup although I must admit I can't see why anyone would go to such trouble to stage it.

I agree with your Astrophysicist friend and other videos I have seen of napalm burning appear much the same. As for not seeing any reflection the helicopter could have been so far above the object that its reflection would not be seen. Don't forget that there are super strong and very thin cables commercially available that could allow one to dangle an object for thousand of feet under a plane or helicopter. It could also be some type of remote controlled drone but unless remains can be found who knows.

To me, the mystery is not that it is extraterrestrial, it is why would anyone bother to do such a stunt as it wouldn't be easy to get the gear together especially the napalm.

So why would Napalm be dropped from the sky and lit?

If a forest area were to be burned for crops or housing, Napalm would be more effective at lower altitudes.

That is a strange video.

And I even looked around for crash sites of satellites and came up empty handed.

What ever it was, it had a fuel source, almost like phosphorus mixed with water.

Then I went to find the chemical compounds of meteorites and found everything but the information I was inquiring.

I wonder if any of the burnt debris had been located to verify what it was?

Absolutely. All it takes is a slight nudge in deep space and the object will move off in another direction. f = ma means the velocity could change direction as well as magnitude in response to that nudge, f. But, that business about objects not changing directions we see all the time in class B sci-fi movies, is about meteors that have entered the pull of Earth's gravity field and are flying inbound to the planet. Those are unlikely to change direction once they've been grabbed by Earth's gravity because it would take more than a nudge to change it. Meteoroids may blow up and shatter; so their bits and pieces might drastically go off in some other direction. But if it remains intact, a meteoroid will not change direction and shoot back up from whence it came. There is no force that would cause that.

I've seen exactly that same thing, but my phone has terrible low light ability and I couldn't capture it. I saw it as I was watching fireworks from my backyard. It occurred at nearly directly above me and so was not a firework. I thought it was a meteor fireball at first until it made a 90 degree turn. I remember a kind of fizzle sound as it went through the air. It was definitely fairly high up. It was definitely unidentifiable to me, although this video shows something like it that was way closer than I could see it.

Well lets see Red..That vid was cool. I think that perhaps pieces of the meteor broke off and went into different directions, as some of the pieces ran out of fire and just fell to the ground maybe. That video stumped me, my first reaction was a firework again but that was way to damn big to be a firework. Anywho, nice catch!

Damn now I'm so confused...lol...Napalm why would that even happen? Perhaps some experiment that we citiznes are not supposed to know about. Here's a website about Napalm:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/mun...

But still very interesting!

I'm not an astrophysicist but I know that meteors don't fly like that. However if you listen carefully you can hear the helicopter over that annoying whine. Its a cool vid though should be on the SiFi channel.

Yeah I like the helicopter explanation.

Intresting video, I agree with CIA and am absolutely stumped.

EDIT: Maybe they are just not on their computers 24 hours a day.