Possibly a faulty Starlink satellite or some space thrash reentering. The first seems like a spinning object exploding and the second one might be some leftover reentering and falling at terminal velocity; also the second one might be reflecting light from the sun or even the moon.
My first guess, assuming it's a bolide (I think you're right), is that it's an ion trail. They can persist for several minutes, and it could be that the sunset or rising moon is illuminating it. The curve could be partly the Earth's horizon casting a shadow, or winds warping the ion trail. Alternatively, the first flare could be a rocket burn in the Earth's shadow, with the second element being the rocket emerging into sunlight at that altitude.
The ion trail isn't necessarily the thing that confuses me. Why does the object itself vanish immediately after the flash only to reappear a minute or so later? And to top it all off, it appears to be going very fast in that initial flash phase. Then, it reappears a minute or so later not very far from where it initially hit the atmosphere. Also, the Sun is to the west. (left side of image) The further it goes eastward the less light it should be receiving as it dips into earths shadow. If it was still visible immediately following the flash this would make a bit more sense to me. But anyway, thank you for your thoughts on this. It is an interesting shot.
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Possibly a faulty Starlink satellite or some space thrash reentering. The first seems like a spinning object exploding and the second one might be some leftover reentering and falling at terminal velocity; also the second one might be reflecting light from the sun or even the moon.
Very cool, no clue about it but it's def interesting!
My first guess, assuming it's a bolide (I think you're right), is that it's an ion trail. They can persist for several minutes, and it could be that the sunset or rising moon is illuminating it. The curve could be partly the Earth's horizon casting a shadow, or winds warping the ion trail.
Alternatively, the first flare could be a rocket burn in the Earth's shadow, with the second element being the rocket emerging into sunlight at that altitude.
The ion trail isn't necessarily the thing that confuses me. Why does the object itself vanish immediately after the flash only to reappear a minute or so later? And to top it all off, it appears to be going very fast in that initial flash phase. Then, it reappears a minute or so later not very far from where it initially hit the atmosphere.
Also, the Sun is to the west. (left side of image) The further it goes eastward the less light it should be receiving as it dips into earths shadow. If it was still visible immediately following the flash this would make a bit more sense to me.
But anyway, thank you for your thoughts on this. It is an interesting shot.