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(meteorobs) ASSOCIATED PRESS: "Meteor sightings light up police phones"


A final burst of publicity for Monday's daytime fireball... Interesting was the
interpretation from a county communications center in PA. Are there any reports
from that State of what looked like significant fragmentation in the fireball?

Lew Gramer


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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:08:38 -0400
From: Michael Aramini <Aramini@MA.UltraNet.com>
Subject: "Meteor sightings light up police phones"

The following is a newspaper article which appear in the
_Asbury Park [NJ] Press_:

  Meteor sightings light up police phones

  People from New Jersey and New York to Virginia see blazes in the
  sky; some fear the worst.

  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

  An apparent meteor shower that last evening triggered a flood of
  calls to emergency authorities in New Jersey and other mid-Atlantic
  states from New York to Virginia.

  At McGuire Air Force Base in Burlington County, Airman Sharon
  Carpenter was on break at about 6 p.m. in the air traffic control
  tower when she looked up and saw an orange streak in the sky north
  of the base.

  In less than a second, the westbound streak was gone, seen by no
  other air traffic or radar controllers in the tower.

  "I spent the rest of the night trying to prive to them that I wasn't
  going crazy," Carpenter said.

  And in Capy May, Joe Poole was driving through town around 6:15 p.m.
  when he saw a meteor over an inlet.  It was moving toward the
  horizon in the nortwest, said Poole, who watched it for about 10
  seconds before it disappeared.

  "It seemed to be a very pinkish red with a white center," said
  Poole, 55, a Cape May resident who designs sea search and rescue
  gear.  "There was some blue and green in its tail.

  "It was like a Roman candle," he said.  "And it was large."

  In Pennsylvania, the shower caused some alarm.

  "We originally got a report of a plane crash, and now it seems there
  were multiple meteors coming down," said Tara Dolzani of the
  Schuylkill County communications center.

  There were reports of explosions in Pottsville and Tioga County, Pa.

  Some callers in that state said that they felt their homes shake,
  and others feared a plane crash or thought it was thunder.

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