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Re: (meteorobs) 'Bizarre' fireball lights up sky, emergency lines
>>>>>>Air traffic controllers in Moncton reported that two planes in the area
saw "a fireball of some sort lasting about 12 seconds," said
military spokesman Lt.-Cmdr. Glenn Chamberlain.
Now that's one loooong fireball!
One of the witnesses to the fireball stated...
"I've seen shooting stars before, but this thing was in our atmosphere."
Huh?
Kim S. Youmans
Michael Boschat wrote:
> ow our newspapers handle an event!
>
> Mike
> =============================
>
> Thursday, October 28, 1999 Back The Halifax Herald Limited
>
>
> 'Bizarre' fireball lights up sky, emergency lines
>
> By Barry Dorey / Staff Reporter
>
> A spectacular fireball passed over the Maritimes on Wednesday, rattling
> windows, lighting up the night sky and sparking a deluge of
> phone calls to emergency crews.
>
> There were unconfirmed reports that pieces of meteorite struck the Oyster
> Pond area of the Eastern Shore, and northern New
> Brunswick, where a fire was reported near St-Quentin.
>
> Fire crews could not be reached, but nobody in the New Brunswick town's
> all-night gas station had heard or seen anything.
>
> The light show, described as comet-like and accompanied by sonic booms,
> had police and Rescue Co-ordination Centre officials
> scrambling after calls starting flooding in at about 9:30 p.m.
>
> Callers feared an airplane was on fire or a satellite might be
> disintegrating over the area, but those concerns were quickly discounted.
>
> Air traffic controllers in Moncton reported that two planes in the area
> saw "a fireball of some sort lasting about 12 seconds," said
> military spokesman Lt.-Cmdr. Glenn Chamberlain.
>
> But no aircraft had reported trouble and the North American Air Defence
> Command had not tracked any falling man-made debris such
> as satellites, he said.
>
> The first report was a 911 call from Liverpool shortly before 9:30 p.m.
> and calls were soon coming from Yarmouth to Cape Breton and
> as far west as Quebec.
>
> Maureen Elm of Stewiacke said the fireball appeared to pass immediately
> overhead and her daughter heard a boom to the west a few
> seconds later.
>
> "It sounded like it hit and it rattled our windows here at home," she
> said.
>
> Dave Dawe, duty manager at Halifax International Airport, said he saw the
> flash and thought it was a flare.
>
> "It was bizarre, everything lit up."
>
> Parrsboro resident Donald Lake saw a "bright yellow ball and a long tail"
> streak across the sky.
>
> "I've seen shooting stars before, but this thing was in our atmosphere."
>
> Astronomer David Lane, a professor at Saint Mary's University, said
> witnesses probably felt the shock wave of explosions when the
> meteor began fragmenting, rather than the rattle of impact.
>
> But he said a similar show over Montreal two years ago littered small
> fragments east of the city.
>
> Wednesday's display was not part of a scheduled or expected meteor shower,
> he said.
>
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