(meteorobs) Re: Alaska bolide

• To: meteorobs@latrade.com
• Subject: (meteorobs) Re: Alaska bolide
• From: nmcleod@peganet.com
• Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 05:33:10 -0500 (EST)
• Reply-To: meteorobs@latrade.com
• Sender: owner-meteorobs

Both of the following were received from Rick yesterday :

>The October 9th, 1997 issue of the NOME NUGGET newspaper, page 5,  has a 
>brief article about a "...flaming object falling out of the sky around 
>10:00 PM".  The nearest site seems to have been the village of 
>Chuathbaluk, on the Middle Kuskokwim River, and the actual date of the 
>event was September 28, 1997.  Thinking it to be an air crash, both 
>Civil Air Patrol units and Army National Guard units from Bethel went 
>looking the next day, but there was no information of any planes or 
>people missing.  Their conclusion: "...one of those weird things...".  I 
>think this one was a regular bolide, nothing more.
>
>As you know, I have a subscription to the NUGGET, which I actually read 
>for Russian-related content.  That's another story because enthusiasm 
>for "glasnost" was never very high in Nome, for good reasons.
>
>                                        Rick Wright
>

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