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(meteorobs) fireball in the sky (fwd)

Hi folks,

I received this message of an apparent fireball. Since I forward
this without permission of the sender, I erased personal information.
Please let me know if someone knows more about the event. The
description gets specially weird at the end...

Best wishes,
Rainer

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To whom it may concern,

I was asked by my parents to inquire as to what may have happened on the 
16 of April 2003 in Drumheller, Alberta.  What took place on that 
morning was indeed strange, in fact the strangest thing that they have 
ever witnessed in their married lives At
approximatley 6: 45 am my mom saw the oddest thing happen.

My parents are early risers, they had gotten up at around 5:30 am that 
morning, and after their ritual of making and consuming several cups of 
coffee, they were ready for the day. My dad headed for his workshop in 
the backyard, to split some firewood for their wood stove. My mom was 
doing a few dishes and generally putting around in the kitchen. She had 
decided to put on a couple of eggs to boil and hollered out the back 
door and asked if my dad was going to join her for some breakfast. His 
reply was, not right at the moment. Mom had returned to the stove, when 
something caught her attention at the window in the kitchen. Their was a 
fire right outside the window!! She immediatley went to the back-doorand 
asked dad if he was burning something in the backyard. He said, no.

when mom got back into the house and looked again outside through the 
window, she had to turn away as the light from this burning ember was so 
bright it hurt her eyes. She said it was like glancing at someone 
welding. She watched this thing burn and smoke away until it had 
disipated into an object no bigger than a dime. My dad  at this time had 
come from the garage with their big Golden Retriever and asked what the 
hell was going on. Tha dog apparently had heard or smelled something, 
because he was shaking and cowling like he had been terribly frightened.

My dad asked again what was going on, my mom had filled him in on waht 
she hasd just witnessed. They both continued to look at this smoldering 
object in the side of their back yard, wondering where this thing had 
come from. After about 2 hours they both went outside to investigate 
further. Where this object had landed, was on a portion of the yard my 
dad was trying to rake up, but it still had a little ice and was 
extremely wet, so it made ir\t impossible to rake up. Not now, this spot 
was burnt and all the leaves around it were charred and the soil was 
bone dry. The heat must have ben horrific.  What they found was an 
object no bigger than a dime. It was smooth on one side and rather bumpy 
on the other. On the bumpy side, it shone like diamonds in the sun!! 
They scooped it up and put it into a glass jar and now have it on their 
kitchen table as a conversation piece. Indeed what a conversation piece.
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