Actually I have a friend in an unnamable government department working on space lazers.... oh yes, it's definately a space lazer. Shooting out lamp posts from space in front of a camera man.....
The possibility that it is a plane contrail is pretty null, because the light source of the picture comes from the far right corner, either even with or maybe behind the larger white cloud. This would make casting a shadow across a cloud parallel to the light source fairly far-fetched, unless you're taking into consideration reflection, but that would have to be an incredibly strong reflection to create such a contrasting streak. The streak almost seems transparent, and if you look close enough appears to end on the horizon, not passing over the small amount of water between the horizon line and the lamp post. This could be a trick of color though, because the trail has a sort of blueish hue in comparison with the ionized clouds behind it. Light flash on the post does look like a reflection, at least the brighter yellow hue. There are smaller whisps of what almost looks like smoke surrounding it. What I can think of, other than the absurd, is a sort of electrical charge in this falling object, that came so close to the light that it fried the blub. This would account for the undamaged pole and the non-working light, and possibly the flash. The trail seemes too long and large for a falling object though, and frames before and after show no trail or streak. This would let one infer that if it were a falling object it would be travelling very, very fast, and if touchdown was in the water there would have been a splash in the following frames. The other interesting thing is that the trail doesn't appear beyond the clouds in the upper left of the picture, meaning that it either originated in the clouds or could only show with a contrasting background. SO, after all this, I still don't know for sure. But my guess is a highly charged particle or group of particles, after travelling through the clouds and creating the trail at very high speed, passed by the lamp and created a short from the energy they were omitting. They then hit the water, making no or little splash, all withing a short period of time.
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Actually I have a friend in an unnamable government department working on space lazers.... oh yes, it's definately a space lazer. Shooting out lamp posts from space in front of a camera man.....
The possibility that it is a plane contrail is pretty null, because the light source of the picture comes from the far right corner, either even with or maybe behind the larger white cloud. This would make casting a shadow across a cloud parallel to the light source fairly far-fetched, unless you're taking into consideration reflection, but that would have to be an incredibly strong reflection to create such a contrasting streak. The streak almost seems transparent, and if you look close enough appears to end on the horizon, not passing over the small amount of water between the horizon line and the lamp post. This could be a trick of color though, because the trail has a sort of blueish hue in comparison with the ionized clouds behind it. Light flash on the post does look like a reflection, at least the brighter yellow hue. There are smaller whisps of what almost looks like smoke surrounding it. What I can think of, other than the absurd, is a sort of electrical charge in this falling object, that came so close to the light that it fried the blub. This would account for the undamaged pole and the non-working light, and possibly the flash. The trail seemes too long and large for a falling object though, and frames before and after show no trail or streak. This would let one infer that if it were a falling object it would be travelling very, very fast, and if touchdown was in the water there would have been a splash in the following frames. The other interesting thing is that the trail doesn't appear beyond the clouds in the upper left of the picture, meaning that it either originated in the clouds or could only show with a contrasting background. SO, after all this, I still don't know for sure. But my guess is a highly charged particle or group of particles, after travelling through the clouds and creating the trail at very high speed, passed by the lamp and created a short from the energy they were omitting. They then hit the water, making no or little splash, all withing a short period of time.