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Re: Re: (meteorobs) Louisiana fireball


In a message dated 7/14/98 8:36:59 AM, you wrote:

<<That would place the meteor over a completely different
ground path than my impression from some of the Louisiana witnesses. 
Not that this would be surprising -- you probably know how everyone
thinks a meteorite hit near THEM,>>

Following is my reply to a similar question:

In a message dated 7/12/98 8:22:59 AM, Adam Marsh wrote:

<<A little while back there was a short thread on Observer Perception.>>

Regarding your question on observer perception.  

I am a retired structural engineer from Trans World Airlines. I have been
investigating TWA's Flt 800 accident for nearly two years and observer
perception. has become very important. I have talked to the eyewitnesses. I
have also obtained the NTSB released Flight Data Recorder (FDR) material.
 
Several of us who have studied the FDR tape data believe that an 
explosion (pressure increase ) occured outside the aircraft before the initial
break-up  of the aircraft occurred.

Regarding your question on observer perception. In the July 1998 issue of Life
Magazine on page 91 states in part, "The unrealiability of eyewitnesses is a
famous problem in law and history, and is compounded in the case of airline
accidents by the strangeness of the view. The sight of a big airplane going
down is unexpected, chaotic, horrible and unreal. It provokes orderly minds to
rebel, to seize upon the fleeting inpressions and try to make sense of the
nonsensical.

Right becomes left, down become up, and time runs backward-all because the
imagination may provide what authentic memory cannot."

The two National Guard pilots flying a helicopter,  "sitting side by side,
differed by 180 degress about one important detail: whether the initial streak
of light had come from the west, --- or from the opposite direction, the east,
---

As you most likely heard many believed a missile rising from the 
ocean hit the airplane. Based on the above confusion of what is up or 
down one can understand how different opinions could have occurred..

After many months of research into how meteors effect aircraft in 
flight and ships at sea it is my belief the initial streak of light seen at
least one of the pilots (and others on shore) was caused by a meteor and that
a meteor was involved in the accident of Flt 800.

Lloyd Mielke, Kansas City, Missouri