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Re: (meteorobs) Littlerock AK meteor? plane crash? UFO?
Hi Joe,
I found an update from the Sightings website which is copied directly below
your post. I'd sure like to know what it was also.
Best,
Cinde Costello
MUFON-State Section Director
San Bernardino County, So. Calif.
fl_botomy@hotmail.com writes:
<< Has anyone heard or seen the report from Littlerock AK area about a firey
crash on thursday nite/ friday morn between 10PM and 12 AM ? it set fire to
a 2 mile strip of land and EMA (local FEMA) and police / fire etc all
responded. Local news crews were present as well. there appears to be a news
blackout on this. Several witnesses stated there was a fireball at the time
and a tremendous explosion. Included in the witnesses statements was a
flourescent trail left by the object. ? Anyone have a clue as to this
report?? Thanks. Joe DiVito
>>
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Source:
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Update Mysterious
Fire Near Little Rock
By Linda Moulton Howe
From Larry Rogers <zapatafalls@hotmail.com>
3-13-00
SCOTT, AR - The mystery of unexplained fires near the small rural towns of
Scott and England near the three county borders of Pulaski, Lonoke and
Jefferson Counties about 20 miles southeast of Little Rock, Arkansas.
A mushroom cloud was first reported to the Little Rock Airport after 11 PM on
Thursday evening, March 9th. Concerned there might be a plane crash, the
airport called the Scott Volunteer Fire Department and the Pulaski County
Sheriff's Office. I talked with Sheriff Spokesman, John Rehrouer on Friday
evening, March 10th.
Interview John Rehrouer, Public Information Officer, Pulaski County Sheriff's
Office, Little Rock Arkansas: "We got a call from the Scott Volunteer Fire
Department that they had received a phone call from the Little Rock Airport
indicating that someone had called them and told them that they had seen
either a plane crash or a large explosion in the Scott area off Highway 161.
Howe: AND DID THEY HAVE THE IMPRESSION IT WAS IN THE AIR?
"No, they really didn't. They thought maybe a plane had hit the ground. We
dispatched units out there, and an adjoining county, Loanoke County
dispatched units out there. They located an area maybe as big as a mile long
where there were a multitude of small fires burning in a wooded area. We
called in a helicopter from the Little Rock Police Department and they flew
over the area and surveyed it trying to see if there was any wreckage from a
plane. They did not find anything and just reported seeing a multitude of
small fires in a pretty wide ranging area. We had some reports - in fact, I
saw myself earlier in the evening what looked like shooting stars - very
bright shooting stars. But that was a good two hours, maybe three hours,
before anything like this was reported."
Howe: CAN YOU DESCRIBE MORE WHAT YOU SAW IN THE SKY?
"Just a very, very bright light and it almost looked like fireworks, but not
in an upward trajectory, only coming down. A pretty good flash and then a
tail heading towards the ground."
Howe: WHAT WAS THE COLOR?
"Really, I don't remember. I think - it happened so fast - it looked kind of
orangish."
Howe: WAS THERE ONLY THIS ONE THAT YOU SAW?
"That's all I saw."
Howe: WERE OTHER PEOPLE SEEING THE SAME KIND OF THING?
"We had a report from a couple of deputies a little further north in the
county than I was. In fact, I talked with one of them today. He said about
the same time, he also saw it."
"WELL, CBS TODAY WAS REPORTING, SHOWING ON THE AIR THAT THERE WAS - FOR
EXAMPLE, THEY SHOWED A TREE THAT HAD BEEN BURNED COMPLETELY TO ASH, BUT NEAR
THE TREE WERE DRY LEAVES THAT WERE NOT SCORCHED AT ALL. RAISING, I GUESS, A
REPORTER SAID IT REMINDED THEM OF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION CASES."
"I will tell you that I did hear the helicopter pilot comment that he saw -
they got low enough to notice that several trees had been burned. He
described it as almost half way through and his reaction was that maybe this
fire had been burning for some time. There seemed to be honestly a fair
amount of - confusion is probably not the right word - but mystery about what
is this? It was very hard to describe and you can tell there was a lot of
hesitation in peoples' voices about what was going on here."
Linda Howe: Astronomers said there was not any known meteor shower March 9th
and NORAD said it was not a satellite or space debris. No craters nor debris
were found either. So, at first, the sheriff's office thought the explanation
might be the explosion of a liquid fertilizer pipeline in the Scott area. But
no damage was found on the pipeline.
Next, law enforcement turned the case over to the Pulaski County Office of
Emergency Services. The Director, Kathy Botsford, went to the site after
midnite. The fires were still burning in an area one to two miles long by 150
feet wide. Little Rock local CBS reporter, Bobby Sisk, was there with his
cameraman and told me what he saw.
Bobby Sisk, Reporter, KTHV (CBS-TV), Little Rock, Arkansas: "We got out there
probably around midnight, a little after midnight, my photographer and I. We
were going down the road - it's out in the middle of nowhere in farm land
where the closest house is probably within a mile, but it's still out where
there aren't residents right around there, driving down through there. It was
very dark. And all of the fire crews that had been there as well as state
police were leaving at that point. However, we get down there, there is still
fire burning and it just looks so bizarre because it looks to be about a mile
stretch burning some on one end, burning some in the middle and up in the
trees and then down on the one end and then down to what looked like a warmer
spot near the end.
So, while everyone else left - the other news crews came and left and thought
it was nothing - and my photographer and I stayed around just because we
didn't feel comfortable with leaving. We thought something was still there.
And at that point, a lady from the Pulaski County Office of Emergency
Services - I don't know if you have spoken with her, Cathy Botsford?
Howe: She was referenced to me. She just wasn't there tonight.
"OK, Cathy Botsford came out there and she was very, she wanted to check it
out and make sure because the first dispatch said it was a possible plane
down. And so to my knowledge, they have absolutely no idea what it was."
Howe: Did you follow her around?
"We followed her around for a little while last night. What she found was
areas - a lot of underbrush next to a field. She found areas that had been
burned out underneath and then she found what looked like the tops of trees
were like knocked down. But then in some places she determined that the tree
had just burned so much that maybe it possibly had fallen over. It was just
very bizarre. I had the most unsettling feeling, I can tell you personally,
out there last night that I've had on anything I've been on. Just very, very
bizarre."
More Information: Firemen at the scene described the flames as unusually
sparkly which suggested some kind of incendiary chemical. So, samples from
burned brush and trees were supposed to have been collected by fire officials
for lab analyses. Also, on Monday, March 13, 2000, the Arkansas Forest
Commission's Fire Marshall's Office is officially taking over the case and
more plant, soil and ash samples will be collected. No one yet knows what
caused all the strange fires that were sprinkled over a mile near Scott,
Arkansas before midnight, March 9th.
To report any more information about this report, or other unusual phenomena
in your area, please e-mail me at earthfiles@earthfiles.com.
Web Sites http://www.adem.state.ar.us./
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