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(meteorobs) Second-hand fireball report
I got this forwarded message about a possible fireball. Supposedly it
occured over Great Britain somewhere...possibly on March 15th. This is all
I could find out......
Mark Davis
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>Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me last weekend coming home
>from my friends house at 1.37am on Sunday morning, I actually had a
>huge meteorite coming down travelling almost alongside my car!!! I
>nearly crashed the car :-)
>
>It was on the news the next day that hundreds of people had reported a
>UFO sighting in the area, but that scientists had confirmed my own
>"sensible" eyesight and that a meteorite had entered our atmosphere
>and broke up before impact - it was probably hundreds of miles away
>from me but it was so big, engulfed with fire and the trail that it
>looked like it was in the field next to the road!
>
>Well, might never see anything like that again in my lifetime.....
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