That shape can be created by the intersection of two beams of RF or optical energy. Yeah, I think it was an induced artifact in the air and not a physical craft. The energy to do this though has to be pretty high and if this was stationary it couldn't have come from an aircraft or satellite. Maybe there are military ground stations somewhere near there or if there are mountains in the region, from a tower on a mountain.
Also, under the right circumstances, RF energy can affect moisture in the air and you might actually be able to see where the beams and sidelobes are because of refraction through hot gases, sort of like heating up a cloud along lines, or if the beam is high power pulsed it might even ionize gases in a line. So the sighting is plausible as a physics-based event.
I've seen the same thing before...also on the east coast.
The closest explanation I found was ice crystals.
I've also seen a couple of circumhorizon arcs in the area, but those were way bigger.
Even those were weird though...happened on very strange days.
But the one that I saw that looked like yours I saw about 20 years ago, it was slightly prismatic, and seem just suspended in the sky. I was driving at the time, and it was striking. The way you mentioned "razor thin sheet of glass" made me think the ice crystal explanation is feasible, because that's almost exactly what it is (a sheet of aligned ice crystals), and it's likely the main or seed crystal was a rectangular prism.
Now, that could be a "scientific" explanation of it, but that still doesn't account for why it happens necessarily, or that it could be artificially done for whatever reason.
Great video, website, source in general! Thanks. it's an area I don't pay enough attention to. For example, it's the first I've heard that ionospheric heaters can destroy the Van Allen belts!
That shape can be created by the intersection of two beams of RF or optical energy. Yeah, I think it was an induced artifact in the air and not a physical craft. The energy to do this though has to be pretty high and if this was stationary it couldn't have come from an aircraft or satellite. Maybe there are military ground stations somewhere near there or if there are mountains in the region, from a tower on a mountain.
Also, under the right circumstances, RF energy can affect moisture in the air and you might actually be able to see where the beams and sidelobes are because of refraction through hot gases, sort of like heating up a cloud along lines, or if the beam is high power pulsed it might even ionize gases in a line. So the sighting is plausible as a physics-based event.
I've seen the same thing before...also on the east coast.
The closest explanation I found was ice crystals.
I've also seen a couple of circumhorizon arcs in the area, but those were way bigger.
Even those were weird though...happened on very strange days.
But the one that I saw that looked like yours I saw about 20 years ago, it was slightly prismatic, and seem just suspended in the sky. I was driving at the time, and it was striking. The way you mentioned "razor thin sheet of glass" made me think the ice crystal explanation is feasible, because that's almost exactly what it is (a sheet of aligned ice crystals), and it's likely the main or seed crystal was a rectangular prism.
Now, that could be a "scientific" explanation of it, but that still doesn't account for why it happens necessarily, or that it could be artificially done for whatever reason.
Great video, website, source in general! Thanks. it's an area I don't pay enough attention to. For example, it's the first I've heard that ionospheric heaters can destroy the Van Allen belts!