(meteorobs) probably a meteor -- daytime sonic boom

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I live in South Shreveport; it was overcast. The initial sound was a single
very loud sharp pop, followed by extremely loud low frequency thunder-like
echoes moving from west to east overhead, much like the many Sonic Booms I
remember hearing in the 1960s, but not as well defined, but much longer in
duration. The RADAR Evidence of a debris field in the sky or a plume of
smoke conspicuously lacks a timeline in the RADAR Presentations. The only
real witnesses are, perhaps, Airline Pilots, and they are not talking. If
the RADAR images show anything, it is a smoke trail remnant of a meteor or
man-made low earth orbit debris cinders falling to earth. Some have
speculated that it was the scheduled X-37B re-entry, but as of the time of
this event the "Space Drone" was still in orbit.

My guess, a large Meteor entering the atmosphere at a shallow angle. At the
time of the Sonic Boom , about 4:30 PM, the local relative direction of the
Earth was away from the Sky, toward the Ground, whereas opposite motion of
the Earth at 4:30 AM is somewhat from the Ground toward the Sky. When the
Sun is low in the Western Sky or in the early evening, the Earth is moving
away from the direction overhead, this is why many of these Sonic
Boom-generating Meteors come in at a shallow angle, late in the afternoon or
early evening. The Asteroid fragment last year in Russia, happened in the
morning, locally the Earth was moving toward the sky amplifying the meteor's
velocity. It is just a matter if time; a large object will slam into the
atmosphere over a populated area. The object over Chelyabinsk Russia,
February 15, 2013, weighed over 12,000 metric tons, traveling over 40,000
mph, equaled the destructive force of 500,000 tons of TNT. Fortunately that
object in Russia burst into small pieces high in the Sky with a relatively
shallow horizontal motion. If it had come in at a steeper angle, the shock
wave would have slammed perpendicularly against the ground focusing the
local energy of the shock wave, smashing entire cities, like that of the
event in Russia 100 years ago. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor#mediaviewer/File:Meteoroid_-
_Meteor_(Bolide)_-_Meteorite.gif

In a few days a Comet, the size of a mountain will fly by Mars at a relative
33 Miles per second, passing a few thousand miles from its surface. Luckily
the Solar System has been swept clear of most of these large objects perhaps
hundreds of millions of years ago, or else our planet would not be as
friendly a place to live as it is now, however, since there are so many of
us on the surface of the Earth, some are an easy target for much smaller and
more numerous objects.

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From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
[mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Ed Cannon
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 11:26 AM
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
Subject: (meteorobs) probably a meteor -- daytime sonic boom

This occurred at about 4:30 PM local time on Monday, October 13, in
"ArkLaTex" (SW Arkansas, NW Louisiana, NE Texas), apparently centered on
radar above Desoto Parish, Louisiana.  People heard a boom that shook
buildings, rattled windows, etc.  At the same time a west-to-east radar
"debris field" image suddenly appeared and then drifted to the east.

http://www.ksla.com/clip/10690519/the-big-boom-theory

http://www.wlox.com/story/26775706/source-of-boom-heard-around-arklatex-not-
identified

http://www.ksla.com/story/26783552/debris-field-spotted-on-radar-at-time-of-
boom-heard-around-the-arklatex

http://www.examiner.com/article/louisiana-loud-boom-shakes-ground-rattles-re
sidents-sonic-ufo-meteorite

It didn't seem to be mentioned here.  One report mentions the AMS, but I
can't find it there either, maybe since it's just a sound and something on
weather radar.

Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
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