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Lew Gramer <owner-meteorobs@jovian.com>

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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:34:33 -0500
To: astro@lists.mindspring.com, shallow-sky@listsdot best.com
From: Larry Klaes <lklaes@bbn.com>
Subject: Update on March 19 New Jersey fireball sighting
Cc: dedalus@latrade.com, jonee@epixdot net,
        Benny J Peiser <b.j.peiser@livjm.acdot uk>,
        Donald Bellunduno <ghostriderman@excite.com>

This is the e-mail I received from my brother-in-law on 
his observation of a bright fireball over northern New
Jersey on the evening of March 19, 2000:


From: scanlinr@squared.com
X-Lotus-FromDomain: AMERICAS
To: Larry Klaes <lklaes@bbn.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:34:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Bob, tell me more about the fireball you saw!

Larry,

Answers to your questions:

1.  In terms of brightness and color it was very bright, so bright that it
appeared that it was travelling through the clouds.  It may have been my
imagination, but I saw the flames as it burned up.  I believe that if it 
fell during the daylight hours I still would have seen it.  The reason I 
say that is because the night sky was bright due to a full moon.  It was 
very big.  Big enough to keep on burning as it fell out of sight behind 
some trees.  I almost expected to here a boom from impact.

2.  There were no sounds associated with it, since I was travelling in 
my car and I had the windows rolled up.

3.  As for smoke trails, it was too cloudy and dark to tell.

4.  It was visible for a good second, like I said above, it was burning 
up from about the 10 o clock position and it fell out of view behing 
some trees.

5.  I was facing east and I caught sight of it at about 10 o clock in 
the sky and it appeared to fall straight down from there.

6.  No one else was with me.

7.  I was in my car travelling east on Interstate 80 in New Jersey 
around exit 24.


Hopefully this helps out and I will talk to you later.


Bob

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