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Definitely weird, OP.  I'd say some sort of vapor trail, illuminated by the sun.  But at 0130?

The closest I've seen to this was something heading from here (Lexington) towards Charlottesville six months to a year ago, and it burned for about 4 seconds before a disintegrating explosion.  It was maybe 10-15º above the horizon when it went kaboom.   I checked Cville, Richmond and DC news for kabooms, but nothing - with the city lights, they probably never saw it.  

I've also seen a really impressive disintegration while on I-24W out of Chattanooga, climbing up towards Eagle Rock/Nest/? whatever that town is up on the plateau.

There have been a couple of others, but nothing quite like the I-24 and Cville thing, and absolutely nothing like the most recent one - this recent one was like super slow motion compared to everything I've seen before, and the color was orange, not the white/yellow of the other meteors.

Awesome.

FWIW, it was on Arfcom first.


I should put up webcams, if nothing else, the F-15 flybys would be worth it.

Thanks for the update!
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/mystery-object-lights-sky-metro-atlanta/nmnYx/

That thing made if from ATL to me in something like 3 minutes.  When it passed even with my location it looked like it was just putzing along, maybe about 2-3x the angular sweep of an airliner at cruise altitude.  When it passed west of me, it was a dim, orange glow; no tail remaining at that point, but the glow had an irregular shape to it.

I've seen 'em last a lot longer than I thought they should, I think it was during the Perseid shower some years back.  It does happen.  Pretty cool to see.

It was visible in the upstate of SC here too. I didn't see it, but I did see the pics of it on Facebook.

Also, was there any rumbling or anything with it? Something woke me up last night and it was a noise that I couldn't identify. I woke up startled and asked my son if he was making a noise that woke me up, and he said he wasn't.

No noise where I was.  It was definitely supersonic when it passed my position, but there was no boom.

Note to self: never go outside without the camera.

This is from Thursday night.  This cloud was probably over Appomattox, and you couldn't hear any thunder.  I was just out after sunset to let the dogs out when I noticed this, and raced back in to grab the camera and tripod.  The sun had set, but the waxing moon was up above the cloud, way out of the photo, to the right - maybe that's what gave the cloud the blue glow?  I dunno.  The blue glow of the top of the cloud was independent of the lightning.

Magnificent.

No, sir, you are never to go outside without a camera again. Ever. Matter of fact, and in the spirit of taking pity on those of us who can't photograph worth a shit, you should probably remake this thread into a daily post of your awesome pictures. I know I sure would love to see them if they are anything like that lightning picture. Skills --- you haz 'em.

OMG and I don't even have my tin foil hat ready!!!!111!!!111!

Mach 16.  That's my rough guess at the average speed of the object.  About 360 miles in 2 minutes.  Of course, there is a lot of +/- on those values, but it's a first guess.

From a satellite observing list:

"As Jonathan McDowell reported earlier, the re-entry of 1973-084D / 6939 was seen from the southeastern U.S.A. on 2015 Jun 29 near 05:30 UTC (01:30 EDT). It was the Blok-L stage of the Cosmos 606 launch. Empty mass 1160 kg."

Hope this doesn't detract from your thread OP, but I'd like to share a related story that my dad told me.

Him and his good preacher friend named John was out in the duck pond one morning (around 0500), waiting for sunrise after setting out the decoy spread. They were both sitting in the boat, enjoying a cup of coffee, and looking at all the stars above as it was a crystal clear sky. There are ducks starting to fly around, and they are both getting antsy to start shooting, but patient to wait for shooting time.

John asks my dad, "Hey Ronnie, what time you got man? need a flashlight to look at your watch?" My dad said, "No man, I don't need a light, check this out! My son got me this cool new watch, its called an indiglo and the whole screen lights up!" He reaches down and just as he hits the light button, the whole entire marsh lights up like daytime at that exact moment. They both look up and see a giant piece of space junk/satellite burning up above their heads, and continues to burn in for about a minute. My dad said it was one of the most beautiful things he'd ever seen in his life. Pastor John looks at my dad after the initial shock wore off and said, "Yeah Ronnie, that watch REALLY is something special!"

I still have the newspaper article that he saved about the fireball.

Thanks dad, I miss ya buddy.

It was Chuck Norris, proving to NASA, that the need for a man rated capsule was highly overrated...

it was however embarrassing for NASA when he showed up mostly naked with the charred remains of his clothing still on him, smoldering from the re-entry.

Hilarious

Aha.  

That explains the faintly audible, "Mens do not put stuffs of tactical on rifle Kalashnikov" as it floated on by.

Was it Sandra Bullock?

Still?

My wife flew her broom too high?  I'll check and see if she's home when I get there.

Saw a large one (meteorite) right at daylight one time.
The debris trail blowing off in the early morning
azul and was certainly something a little bit different.
I'm almost sure at least part of it reached the ground in tact.
Like..

#skylabmatters

Watched one like that in the mid nineties, visible for 7 or 8 minutes