Re: (meteorobs) Here I AM!

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Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Here I AM!
From: "Jack Spencer" <grandpa@si-net.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:36:25 -0500
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Thanks George
Jack

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> From: GeoZay@aol.com
> To: meteorobs@latrade.com
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Here I AM!
> Date: Thursday, August 06, 1998 1:36 PM
> 
> In a message dated 98-08-05 18:14:27 EDT, you write:
> 
> << 
>  Now for a question: Back in 1942 I was on my back on the bottom of a
fishing 
>  boat watching the sky when a meteor went past directly over my head.  It
left
> a 
>  streak which was wider than a full moon! It seemed to me that I could
hear
> its, 
>  "Swishsssuuugh!" sound.  I have wondered all these years if I really
heard
> it, 
>  or just "filled in" the sound with my imagination.  If anyone has any
> thoughts 
>  on this, I'd like to hear them.
>   >>
> 
> Jack,
> I'm inclined to think that unless the meteor was big enough to knock your
> socks off with sonic booms and all, you most likely "filled in" the sound
with
> your imagination.
> George Zay