Object traveling >600 mph buzzes KOCO 5 News camera


I saw this video today from 10 years ago. It’s on the official KOCO 5 News youtube channel…so credible. https://youtu.be/AK6dqLMLCtQ?si=2H-jJXC7NBQ78GQL

Fortunately, the object travels BELOW the horizon, so I’m able to estimate a distance. I used Google Earth and Google Maps to run an approximate distance (vs time) to calculate an approximate speed. Conservatively, I came up with a speed of 639 MPH, but its likely faster than that. This rules out drones; and size appears to rule out jets. Horizontal trajectory and speed is too slow for meteor.

Harder to estimate, but it appears to also slow down a bit, but that is not something we can’t calculate using a single camera vantage point.

One other interesting note, if it maintained a straight path, it would end up at the Wes Watkins Lake, only about a mile or so further.

Approximate Google Earth perspective of the 5 News camera position at Grand Casino Hotel & Resort in Shawnee, OK

Google Maps approximate trajectory of object (red line)

https://preview.redd.it/vpf274kxhf2d1.jpg?width=499&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f90d28825418d26be97de4b6d9f429ea4f81c8a7

https://preview.redd.it/otey0wfyhf2d1.jpg?width=993&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd33e3c8f6d874be70d3adefdf01cae8ec594876

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