(meteorobs) Re: Possible Meteorite

[Robert Lunsford]

I forwarded all of the replies on this subject to Linda. Here is her reply:

I want to thank everyone, very much, for their speculations as to what I may 
have witnessed on Townline Lake in 1952.  While the lake was stocked with 
Blue Gill and bass,  I don't think it was a school of fish as it would have 
been too far away from shore for the smaller fish to school together.  I 
have done a great deal of fishing in my life and have seen many schools of 
fish being chased by predators, and it did not look the same.  And even 
though fish cause some splashing when they are being chased, the splash I 
heard in 1952 was very loud.  Much louder than a school of small fish make 
when fleeing a predator.

The methane gas or even the UFO theories seem more plausible to me, although 
I doubt if the methane gas would have caused a loud splashing noise. 
Perhaps a loud bubbling noise.  I am glad to know that everyone ruled out 
the meteorite theory, however, since that is what I always thought it was, 
and this information rules out that possibility.

I was unaware of the large number of sightings of UFO's in 1952, and do not 
positively rule out that theory since my husband and I saw a UFO in Indiana, 
in 1981.  No, we are not kooks!  We were both members of a small volunteer 
fire department.  I was their only certified EMT, so I was on call 24 hours 
a day.  One channel of our fireman's radio picked up airline pilots and the 
control tower in Indianapolis.  While we were listening to their 
conversations one evening, two airline pilots reported seeing an 
unidentified flying object about 35 miles south of Indianapolis.  Since that 
was our approximate distance from the airport, we jumped into the car and 
drove to the highest, darkest hill outside of town to see if we could spot 
the UFO.  It was a very clear night so we had no trouble spotting it.  It 
was hovering at about 3,000 feet just to the Northeast of our location.  It 
was round, silver, and had red and green lights scrolling around it's 
middle.  The lights moved from right to left.  It moved very slowly across 
the sky from East to West.  Much slower than an airplane could move and 
still remain airborne.  We watched it for at least 30 minutes, while other 
airline pilots heading toward Indianapolis reported the same unidentified 
object to the control tower (we also had a fireman's radio in our car so we 
could continue listening to the reports).  Finally, the object flew straight 
up and out of sight within a matter of seconds.  Up until that night I was 
open-minded but a bit skeptical about the existence of UFO's.

If I had the time and resources, I would like to hire divers to explore that 
area of Townline Lake to see if they could find anything unusual down there, 
as I am still very curious.  At that time there were very few houses on the 
lake, so the chances of anyone else witnessing the incident were very 
remote.   And in the 2 or 3 years we lived there, I never witnessed anything 
else like that.  So, while it is still a mystery, I appreciate everyone's 
theories, and especially the information indicating that it probably was not 
a meteorite.  However, this tends to make the incident even more mysterious 
now.  I guess I will never know for sure.

Thank you again for your response to my inquiry.  I really did not expect 
such a quick and thorough reply.  I appreciate everyone's time and theories 
on the subject, VERY much.

Linda Johnstone