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(meteorobs) Major Fireball Just Passed Over North Texas/Oklahoma
<http://www.msnbc.com/local/ksnw/148578.asp?cp1=1>
An excellent fireball video at this "News Release" web
page.
NORAD was quoted in the article.
It was very unsatisfying that NORAD didn't explicitly
say that it WASN'T RE-ENTRY DEBRIS. A sargent at
NORAD was quoted as saying that it must be a "meteor
shower" because the "local weather people" warned them
of an upcoming "shower on the 15th" [?]!!
Aside from this meteor shower malarkey, this is still
an interesting story.
Still waiting for those sonic boom news reports to be
coming in.
Bob V.
--- Ginger Mayfield <chikadee@earthlinkdot net> wrote:
> There is a video clip at the site I posted earlier.
> I didn't have the right plug in so only saw the
still
> image.
>
> Ginger
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/local/ksnw/148578.asp?cp1=1
============= Attached News Release ===============
Witnesses see fire in the sky
WICHITA, Kansas, October 13 – Kansas watches as a
strange sight lights up the night.
As Friday Football Fever raged on the fields across
Kansas, lights were seen in sky.
Watch KSN News Video online!
“THERE’S ONE BIG WHITE LIGHT and around it
was like five little balls,
just lights, just following them. And
then thru the sky there was
just like vapors and vapors were
like different colors – blues
and oranges. It was just odd,”
said eyewitness Anthony Davis
of Valley Center.
We’ve had reports of the
fire in the sky from all over the
Midwest. From McCook,
Nebraska in the northwest,
through Great Bend to El
Dorado. In Wichita, hundreds
saw the sight.
See video with NORAD
explanation
Gary Bishop of south
Wichita said, “So I looked over my
shoulder and right across the
sky from the southwest to the
northwest, down a little bit.
There was a meteor that left a
trail of blue lights. It was
beautiful.”
As the object screamed
across the sky, 911 couldn’t
keep up with all the calls
that were coming in. 911
supervisors say they had more
phones ringing than
dispatchers to answer them.
They say they had around 150
calls from witnesses saying
they saw everything from space
aliens to a plane crash.
While dispatchers were
getting all those calls on the
meteor shower, they did have
a serious car accident to deal
with as well. Luckily,
supervisors say that call got through
without much of a wait and
response time wasn’t affected.
So what was it in the
sky? We talked to the North
American Air Defense Command
to find out. Master
Sergeant Larry Lincoln told
us, “It seems to be a very heavy
meteor shower. Our weather
people told us to expect
something like this from the
10th to the 29th of October,
with the heaviest coming down
around the 15th. It seems to
probably be coming down a
little early. The mission of
NORAD U.S. Space Command is
tracking. Tracks
man-made objects, satellites,
things like that. Things that are
in orbit. So in this case
again, it’s a meteor shower. We
would not necessarily see
that heavy the I.R. signature,
probably wouldn’t be
significant enough, so that’s what
people are witnessing.”
That’s the official word
from NORAD in Colorado
Springs. Although no one at
the U.S. Space Command
there witnessed the event.
Their response is based upon our
accounts of the lights.
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