Another Meteorite

[Christina]

POLICE were inundated with calls from scores of people from Didim to Bodrum after they heard a big bang and a flash of light across the skies. Despite officers being unable to explain the flashing green, yellow and red lights, Voices has solved the phenomena.It was not a UFO but a meteorite which crash through the earth’s atmosphere and landed in Yeşilkent.A startled Abdullah Arıtürk revealed that the rock had smashed a hole in the ground at the Green Park Complex, at Yeşilkent, narrowly missing him by ten metres. Police reported that people from Bodrum, Milas and Didim had heard a bang and seen the flashing light across the skies at about 5.30pm on Thursday (Jan 31). Mr Arıtürk said: “I thought this was it. I thought it was the apocalypse. I saw the bang and the flashing lights and this rock smashed into the ground quite near me. It was very frightening.”After telling the Voices of his story, Mr Arıtürk is now awaiting scientists from Aegean University, in İzmir, to take the meteorite away for closer examination.http://www.voicesnewspaper.com/modules.php...e=print&sid=477

 

[SilentFlight]

Wow i'm sure that would have been scary, thankfully it missed him.

 

[Christina]

MILWAUKEE — From southeastern Wisconsin to as far as Des Moines, Iowa and St. Louis, people reported seeing balls of fire, possibly meteors, streaking across the sky last night. No major meteor showers were expected in the northern hemisphere on Sunday night, said Jim Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy department's Space Place. But he said it was possible that a minor shower may have been what prompted calls to authorities. The National Weather Service's Sullivan office said reports were called in from Iowa, northern Illinois and on up to Green Bay. Dozens of people throughout the St. Louis region and Illinois reported small objects that looked like bright lights or something burning, with flaming tails behind some of them, said Ken Tretter, with the Missouri State Highway Patrol in St. Louis. In Wisconsin, a Waukesha County dispatch supervisor said two callers reported a sighting around 8:15 p.m. The Winnebago County Sheriff's Department said it received calls from Oshkosh, Ripon, Appleton, Neenah, and Pulaski, among others. A preliminary report Sunday indicated that the lights were from a meteor, said Maj. April Cunningham, a spokeswoman for North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, which watches for airborne threats to the United States and Canada. "We had a pilot reporting seeing a meteor and that's really all the information we have tonight," Cunningham

 

[Christina]

MILWAUKEE — From southeastern Wisconsin to as far as Des Moines, Iowa and St. Louis, people reported seeing balls of fire, possibly meteors, streaking across the sky last night. No major meteor showers were expected in the northern hemisphere on Sunday night, said Jim Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy department's Space Place. But he said it was possible that a minor shower may have been what prompted calls to authorities. The National Weather Service's Sullivan office said reports were called in from Iowa, northern Illinois and on up to Green Bay. Dozens of people throughout the St. Louis region and Illinois reported small objects that looked like bright lights or something burning, with flaming tails behind some of them, said Ken Tretter, with the Missouri State Highway Patrol in St. Louis. In Wisconsin, a Waukesha County dispatch supervisor said two callers reported a sighting around 8:15 p.m. The Winnebago County Sheriff's Department said it received calls from Oshkosh, Ripon, Appleton, Neenah, and Pulaski, among others. A preliminary report Sunday indicated that the lights were from a meteor, said Maj. April Cunningham, a spokeswoman for North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, which watches for airborne threats to the United States and Canada. "We had a pilot reporting seeing a meteor and that's really all the information we have tonight," Cunningham

 

[Christina]

Updated:3/6/2007 6:56:54 AM Meteor Hits Illinois HomeDee Riddle has quite a souvenir to show for her spaced-out experience.Experts say a meteorite likely shattered the window in the bedroom of her central Illinois home. A gray hunk of metal about the size of a deck of cards broke the glass Monday morning. Robert "Skip" Nelson, a geology professor at Illinois State University, says it's most likely a meteorite. But tests on the object continue. Meteorite strikes in the area are very rare. Nelson says the last confirmed one occurred in the 1930s

 

[Christina]

ET event or meteor shower? India ‘fireball’ mysteryBy Ravi S. Jha (Our correspondent)6 March 2007 NEW DELHI — Was it an extra terrestrial (ET) event? Or a meteor shower?Officials of India's Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) are perplexed over a strange occurrence in midair in the dead of the night recently.Pilots of at least 10 aircraft flying over India reported, at around the same time, that a 'ball of fire' emerged in the sky from nowhere and blasted off immediately, leaving a blazing trail in the sky, some 40,000 feet up in the air.A British Airways pilot flying his aircraft over India immediately reported the incident to the air traffic control (ATC) in Delhi, fearing an air mishap. Pilots of the other aircraft flying on various designated routes, who all witnessed the 'fireball' at around 1.45am, earmarked the location as some 300 nautical miles south-west of Delhi, somewhere over the Indian state of Gujarat, or above the Arabian Sea, well within the Indian territory. The ATC immediately issued an alert to airports, but nothing could be ascertained. Meanwhile, the DGCA has set up an enquiry into the incident and a report is awaited as to whether it was a 'meteor fireball' or something else. The DGCA has asked ATC in Delhi to carry out preliminary investigations. Reports quoting DGCA officials said the 'fireball' reports came in mostly from pilots of international aircraft, such as the British Airways, Air France and Malaysian Airlines.A non-scheduled high-speed jet flying at the same time is also said to have given a similar report. However, an Air Sahara flight on the Delhi-Mumbai domestic route also reported the incident to the ATC.But what baffled the ATC is that none of the aircraft flying over India at the time went missing.As per the description used by the pilots, the fireball appeared like a 'bright burning object, orange in colour and scattered”.“Oh! My God!,” one pilot is reported to have shouted on seeing the fireball.Another pilot said it looked like a 'meteor shower', but nothing could be said with surity.India's Meteorological Department, however, has not noticed any such shower. Also, the ATC radar did not pick up any unusual signal, nor has there been any report of some object/s falling on the ground.The DGCA believes it is bizarre for so many pilots to file similar reports. This indicates that the pilots did actually see something extraordinary in the sky.Speculation is also rife in some quarters if the incident has something to do with Pakistan’s short-range missile test, which was conducted at around the same time. Pakistan had given a notice to Indian airmen of the test, but the exact time was not notified, said reports.