SKY EVENT in Kali was a meteor trail
Astronomy fag here…..I agree that the odd trail in Kali skies tonight/last night was a meteor trail as reported by Lick Observatory. On Nov. 18, 2001 after several years of trying I finally observed what is known as a Meteor Storm during the annual Leonid meteor shower. My peak count for the night was 3600 meteors per hour. NASA was even flying missions hoping to document a Storm but they missed it in 2001 because it occurred over east central Washington state. They were flying SOPHIA over the Middle East as I recall.
An excerpt from my observing log from that night:
"While looking towards Leo I saw a very bright meteor
"pop" just behind the head of Leo. It only traveled about three degrees but it left the most intense, long lasting smoke trail of the night. It just
hung there, twisting and glowing in the wind for about 30 minutes. Twenty minutes after it popped I was so amazed I could still see it that I pointed the telescope at it. It looked sort of like a bloated Veil Nebula. Very cool. (for an example see: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011118.html and let the page load)"
The link above from my log is still active on the APOD website so check it out.
What made the Kali event different from the one I saw is that the meteor popped so high in the atmosphere that the Sun was still shining on it despite it being just after sunset there.
Check this high res Geminid Meteor image: (attached) It left a smoke trail too. Video is of the exact same meteor shown in the attached image. (check the star field)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJpQTL6V_WI&
feature=youtu.be
The notable says it was a Noctilucent Cloud. Technically it was not but the smoke trail was illuminated for the same reason as noctilucent clouds…..very high in the atmosphere.