(meteorobs) UARS Sat re-entry

[MexicoDoug]

Hi Ed, all,

Yes - Too bad for the apparently false alarm pranksters, the amount of 
folks nowadays with information that previously was available to only 
the select diehards is now so well distributed that this is the way 
things are headed - "el mitote".

If a kind Canadian can check this out by contacting "Madman" in this 
Local Calgary Hockey forum, it's the first mention online of any 
observations in that area I saw at the time (Friday night), and 
additionally it mentions an observation from Okotoks by name ... and it 
might have been before the Tweet that apparently started this all off; 
#86 in their thread and is apparently from a local at the site.

Text from the post with date stamp:

"09-23-2011, 09:21 PM    #86
Madman
So I just saw very fast moving major blue streak east of Okotoks at 
9:15. It wasn't like any type of shooting star I've ever seen. "

Ref:
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?p=3293019

I wonder if it was a hoax by intention or if it just a big "mitote" 
(sorry I don't know the English word - but it's sort of things that 
become alive because of miscommunications within large groups)

The crater business was apparently started by a bunch of Australians 
while Canada was asleep...

Kindest wishes
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Majden <epmajden at shaw.ca>
To: Meteor science and meteor observing <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Sun, Sep 25, 2011 10:54 pm
Subject: (meteorobs) UARS Sat re-entry


	We have no reports from the B.C. and Alberta All-sky  Networks
recording anything from this event.  Much of B.C. was overcast but Dr.
Alan Hildebrand said skies were clear over Alberta.  Looks like the
reports of something falling south of Calgary was a hoax.  To bad
people make such reports as it just confuses the issue.

Ed Majden
EMO Sandia All-sky Station
Courtenay, B.C.
CANADA
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