ABGD

Thanks all for the feedback. Somehow it's more obvious that the lights are regularly spaced on my photograph on this website, than it was on my own screen.

We did both did see something that we thought was a double meteor in much the same region of the sky. It was very fast moving and only visible for a fraction of a second. Presumably this is something different.

One thing that confused me was why I could see no coloured lights.

This picture shows how when flying away, only white lights may be visible.

I took this picture in Wales on 13/8/2024 - and when I looked closely it seemed that it showed a double meteor... Or does it?

At some point around the time the picture was taken, I saw a bright meteor and said to my partner, 'that looked almost as if it were a double-streak, didn't it'. She agreed. Initially I didn't think that I'd caught it as the shutter clicked closed almost exactly the same time that we saw it. However, when you look closely at the cropped picture, I get the impression that there may be some form of periodic light visible between the two streaks. However, all the aircraft that I captured had very distinctive coloured patterns created by their navigation lights, and didn't look anything like this at all.

Are double meteors a recognised phenomenon? I can imagine that if a meteor broke apart you might expect to see parallel streaks. If this isn't a double meteor, then what is it?