(meteorobs) Anything unusual over Indiana tonight?

[Thomas Dorman]

 I believe CNN showed the video from a  police car
video camera of this event this morning.CNN stated
that scientist thought it was a meteor about the size
of a baseball.I am not sure if CNN has posted the
video to the web at their science and technolgy news
site.You may want to check.
Regards
Thomas Dorman
Horizon City,Texas
--- Arlene Carol <arlene.carol at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, This just landed in my mailbox. I wonder if
> it's connected to whatever
> was seen in the Midwest...??
> 
> do it help solve the mystery?
> 
> arlene
> south of troy
> 
>  [image: .] [image: .] [image: .]
> 
> 
> Lights in the sky were no UFO after all
> 
> Space rock said to be likely culprit
> 
> HEATHER VANDERMEER
> 
>
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> 
> GUELPH (Mar 13, 2007)
> 
> So, it turns out it wasn't little green men after
> all.
> 
> A bright light that blazed across local skies early
> Sunday evening and
> spurred much UFO talk was a hunk of space rock or
> debris probably no larger
> than a golf ball, said Chris Rutkowski, an author
> and UFO investigator.
> 
> "The object was what we call in astronomy a bolide.
> This particular bolide
> was between the size of a marble and a golf ball,"
> Rutkowski said.
> 
> Despite varied local witness reports of the meteor
> seemingly being at a low
> altitude, Rutkowski said it was at least 50
> kilometres above ground and
> disintegrated in the atmosphere far above the
> ground.
> 
> Sightings of its fiery journey were reported from
> regions just north of
> Toronto, across southern Ontario, and in parts of
> Michigan and New York
> states, said Rutkowski, who is based in Winnipeg
> 
> In Wellington County and Guelph, witnesses saw a
> bright light race across
> the sky, somewhat similar to a shooting star,
> spitting off sparks before
> disappearing. The moments-long light show unfolded
> around 8 p.m.
> 
> Kelly Rutherford of Guelph described her experience
> in witnessing the
> five-second event with awe.
> 
> "My first reaction was that something was burning in
> the sky, and by the
> direction it was heading I could tell it wasn't
> fireworks," she said.
> 
> Rutherford had been stopped in her car at the corner
> of Woodlawn Road and
> Woolwich Street when she and her daughter Cierra
> looked toward the sky to
> see what she described as "a big white fireball
> heading toward the ground,
> about three times the size of regular fireworks you
> would find in a store.
> 
> "I read an article with reference to Venus causing
> the lights in the sky,
> but unless Venus is huge and moving very quickly, I
> don't think it was
> that," Rutherford said.
> 
> Harriet Bradley, also of Guelph, reported seeing a
> "fireball-type" streak in
> the sky through her living room window. It came from
> the northeast and
> headed southwest.
> 
> "It was going so fast I thought it might hit
> something," Bradley said.
> 
> A retired science teacher, Bradley said it looked
> similar to a shooting
> star, except very close, and concluded she believed
> it to be a meteorite.
> 
> Rutkowski explained a bolide's descent into the
> atmosphere can cause sparks,
> such as those witnesses saw Sunday evening, as it
> disintegrates.
> 
> "Bolides are relatively common, with approximately
> three sightings a year in
> Canada," Rutkowski said, adding that they rarely hit
> the planet before
> disintegration.
> 
> hvandermeer at guelphmercury.com
> 
> 
> 
>  )
>
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