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(meteorobs) FWD: Meteor or something else?
Hi, all! April is *not on meteorobs*, so please put her email address in the
"cc:" line if you respond.
April, what you describe sounds very distinctly like a bright meteor (or
"fireball" as they're usually known). You don't describe how QUICKLY the event
happened, but from your "very very fast speed", I'd guess it was no more than a
second or two?
The impression that a fireball is "very close overhead" is a really common one:
it's based on an optical illusion, which makes very bright objects of unknown
size (like the moving point of light of a meteor) appear nearby.
Write us back if you have more questions! By the way, you don't mention where
you were located: if you can give a good idea of time and sky direction of the
fireball, and exactly where you were located at the time, your observation may
be scientifically useful!
Take care,
Lew Gramer <owner-meteorobs@latrade.com>
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From: April Mitchison <aprilmit@hpd.acast.novadot edu>
To: <meteorobs@latrade.com>
Subject: Meteor or something else?
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 14:46:50 -0400
Hello,
I saw something shoot across the sky at a very very fast speed, and it was
glowing bright white, and it was not very high. It seemed as though it was
only mabey 50 feet above our heads. It shot across in front of us while we
were walking on a golfcourse at night.
We were really shocked and amazed, it was really something. My first
thought was that it was a ufo or spaceship of some sort, because I have
seen strange things in the sky before, but not even very high off of the
ground, mabey 40-50 feet high. But this was glowing.
It made a crackel pop sound and then disappeared, with no trace.
It seemed like it was about 2 or 3 feet in diameter but not quite round.
What do you think this was? I at first thought meteor, but seeing the
photographs on the internet, I think it may be something else.
Please respond, I would greatly appreciate it.
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