(meteorobs) did any of you catch this?

[Arlene Carol]

UFO Sightings in Midwest? No, But Meteor Light Show Fills Sky
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  By Gene Byrd
Feb 5, 2007

Great balls of fire.  Scores of people all over the Midwest and Upper
Midwestern United States reported seeing flames and fiery explosions in the
sky Sunday night.  The Associated Press reports that from southeastern
Wisconsin to as far as Des Moines, Iowa and St. Louis, people reported
seeing balls of fire, possibly meteors, streaking across the sky on Sunday
night.

 [image: Meteors Similar to This Leonid Reportedly Put on a Light Show on
Sunday Night] Meteors Similar to This Leonid Reportedly Put on a Light Show
on Sunday Night

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that calls flooded 911 operators and
area police departments, the Missouri Highway Patrol said. Callers described
the spectacle in various ways, some saying it looked like a plane crash and
others calling it a ball of fire in the sky.

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A preliminary report Sunday indicated that the lights were from a meteor,
said Maj. April Cunningham, a spokeswoman for North American Aerospace
Defense Command, or NORAD, which watches for airborne threats to the United
States and Canada, reports AP.

"We had a pilot reporting seeing a meteor and that's really all the
information we have tonight," Cunningham said. Reports came from residents
in central Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Wisconsin and Minnesota, the Missouri
Highway Patrol said.

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According to the Post-Dispatch, the patrol forwarded the information to the
Federal Aviation Administration and had no reports of damage or landings
from the potential meteor or space debris.