So glad others saw it to.
We were at FL380 at about 2000 LT, tracking Kadlo to Elato and it passed down our right hand side. Very high and very fast, I would guess it was well up in the Stratosphere and doing Mach 3+.
At first we thought it was a full moon coming through the clouds as we flew towards the setting sun......but there where no clouds, just a fireball.
As it got closer it reminded me of when I saw Hayleys comet in the mid 90's. It glowed, was holding a constant trajectory and appeared to have a 'tail'.
As it passed abeam us the setting sun reflected off whatever it was and the sunlight was refracting through two really powerfull shockwaves....looked like a perfect V.
There was a secondry glow directly behind the object creating the shockwaves, in hindsight I think it was refraction through a strong contrail.
It then disappeared into the night over Taiwan.
I've had a good think about it, it was in the Earths atomsphere as it was creating a powerfull shockwave.......so therefore couldn't have been a satelite.
The only craft that would have the same sort of effect on the atomsphere would be a re-entering space shuttle, (this thing was maintaining level flight however)......the space shuttle was on the ground and I believe it re-enters the atomsphere as it nears the west coast of the US anyway.
So I don't know......need some help here.
I would guess the SR-71 going balls to the wall would have looked something like what we saw......but that has been retired for years.
Definitely NOT a laser from Macau
