Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
At one point in the article it is stated that the residents heard a large thunderous bang. Then later it is said that there was no noise at all.

My understanding of it was they heard nothing PRIOR to the explosion. I've been wrong before, though.

Terrestrial aviation:

After examining the provided photo from reuters, unless alien craft use nuts and bolts, this is for certain an Earthly manufactured object.

If it was aurora they'll obviously paint it as a ufo to hide that....

Originally posted by GhostR1der
If it was aurora they'll obviously paint it as a ufo to hide that....

Not likely.
The SR-71 when it was still black, unacknowledged and flying out of Groom Lake (Area 51) still had all appropriate insignia, flightline safety decals and proper nomenclature. The same would be true for now, especially in the hyper-litigious legal environment that the U.S. has become.

One must also ask, exactly how is a UFO painted? Do you paint it a flat battleship gray and put Klingon fonting on it to try to fool someone into thinking it's of extraterrestrial origin? I think not.

If this does turn out to be an Aurora spyplane, I think we can see it coming out of "black" soon, which would make for lots of excited posts in the Aviation Forum (shameless promotion).

I still think it's a drone of some kind from a local nation, a US spyplane's egress from Iran would not take it over Vietnam.

Natalie~

Lets not laugh this one off guys.

There was no connection to aircraft in the area at the time of the explosion, or lack there of, but something was out of place in the sky that morning and was shot down or destroyed.

By what and whom is the real question?

Could it have been part of a spy satellite? That would explain the silence before the explosion.

Originally posted by CosmicVegeta100

five words = laugh my fat a off

Five words:
Please Warn This Useless Member

maybe it was an ejected escape pod

the skies sure are busy... houston, cambodia, vietnam, pakistan/afghanistan

Originally posted by Tulkos
Could this perhaps be related to China's Fengyun-3 satellite launch ?
It was launched at 3:02 GMT on Tuesday 27th.


What im getting at is that could it be possible that these metal pieces are parts of the rocket that put the satellite into orbit, falling back down and re-entering the earths atmosphere ?

right along the theme i was going to post,
everyone is focused on an aircraft {likely because of Cambodian reports then denials of a lost aircraft earlier}

instead of space junk falling from a decaying orbit
or else a launch mishap of a second stage or whatever --
the rest of the vehicle & payload came down unnoticed. over a wide area


there was a report from 'Sun' a British news (?tabloid) (cited in a thread that was trashed) that reported a BooM !, from 5 miles up...
i asked myself, don't the Vietnamese use metrics like kilometers & not mile measurements? And an exploson 8 km up and away would be so faint and delayed as to barely noticeable from a chance observation of a visual explosion & plume of smoke.

however a fuel tank from a jettisoned satellite with some volitile substance in it would tend to blow up during reentry, ergo, round pieces of debris and those apparent harness straps we see in the pic of alleged debris from that incident

The poster of this theory noted that the launch time for the rocket was about the same as the reported time of the crash/explosion. The debris field is more than 3,000 km south of the launch site. While a rocket should be able to cover that kind of distance in a few minutes, shouldn't it be going up rather than sideways?