Sun
Feb 18 2007
02:33 pm
Meteor(?) on January 24
By: Scott1202

On January 25th, I posted the following...

My wife and I were watching tv last night (1/24/07) and there was a bright green flash outside followed by our DTV going out for a couple of minutes. I heard on WBIR News later that there was possibly a meteor. Did anyone else see this and did whatever it was make impact anywhere?

Severeal people responded to my post saying they too had seen this object and WBIR carried a story the next morning about the incident, mentioning the multitude of calls made to them and 911 about sightings of this object. They even included a photo taken of it. The next day, this photo was removed from their website. If this was a meteor would it not have crashed somewhere? Has anyone heard any more news about this because I sure haven't.
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from what i remember from

Submitted by Geckofile on Sun, 2007/02/18 - 4:38pm.

from what i remember from school(bah) meteors burn up in atmosphere, and when it does happen to make it through, its called a meteorite.
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Photo was pirated

Submitted by Tess on Sun, 2007/02/18 - 5:52pm.

The photo was removed because whoever submitted it to WBIR had pirated the photo from the BBC website. Whatever it was went round the world, and was also mentioned on the BBC site. The accompanying story there was about it being seen in Wales.

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there was a bright green

Submitted by JaHu on Mon, 2007/02/19 - 9:32am.

there was a bright green flash outside followed by our DTV going out for a couple of minutes.

Whatever it was went round the world, and was also mentioned on the BBC site.

Maybe last St,Patrick's day, ole St. Nick and St. Pat had been celebrating together and St. Nickolaus asked St. Patrick if he would help him out by delivering a few Christmas presents for him... You know, how the earth's population is growing and such... Between the merriment and alcohol indulgence ole Pat became confused about the date and delivered them a month late. That could explain the fact that the green flash was seen around the world at the same moment. Just a theory though!

Adrift in the Sea of Humility

Tess's picture

delete

Submitted by Tess on Sun, 2007/02/18 - 6:18pm.

delete

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likely it was a meteor

Submitted by rikki on Mon, 2007/02/19 - 2:57am.

Meteors are often fairly small, and they melt and break up as they crash into the atmosphere. Usually, they are amalgamations of rock and dusty ice, so what they leave behind may be hard to recognize as space debris. A meteor as near as this one seemed to be need not be more than a few pounds to burn brightly enough to catch a lot of people's attention.

If it had hit someone's house or landed in a pool, we probably would have heard about it, but there is a decent chance it landed unnoticed in a patch of woods or burned up before impact. The friction and deceleration those things go through when they enter our atmosphere is severe.

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morning has broken

Submitted by Tess on Mon, 2007/02/19 - 1:39pm.

The account from Wales was that it was seen in the morning, as someone drank their morning coffe they noticed it on the horizon. Doesn't mean it was the same thing, just that the picture from the BBC was posted to the WBIR site regarding a similar sighting.

Is that better?

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Is that better? Tess, no

Submitted by JaHu on Mon, 2007/02/19 - 6:02pm.

Is that better?

Tess, no explanation needed, I was just kidding. Wish I had gotten a glimpse of it myself.

Adrift in the Sea of Humility

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Tess, speaking of 'Morning

Submitted by JaHu on Mon, 2007/02/19 - 7:36pm.

Tess, speaking of 'Morning has Broken' I don't know if you were, in a round about way, referring to the old Cat Stevens song of the same title or not, but I received an email from my brother, who lives in Panama this morning and he sent me a YouTube link to a video about Panama. The singer in the video sounds and even looks somewhat similar to the Cat. Are we allowed to mention his name anymore in this country?

Well anyway, here's the link.

Going Down to Panama

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Tess's picture

True dat

Submitted by Tess on Tue, 2007/02/20 - 10:00am.

That guy does look like Cat/Yusaf! And, I am persuaded to come down to Panama from the video. :)

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It seems very strange to me

Submitted by R. Neal on Mon, 2007/02/19 - 6:09pm.

It seems very strange to me that such a widely reported sighting just disappeared off the radar, so to speak. Isn't there usually a follow up of some kind with some sort of scientific explanation?

I saw a couple of reports around the interwebs of a seismic event in Virgina around the same time, suggesting the object, whatever it was, made impact.

There was other speculation that it could be space junk making reentry, and more specific suggestions that it might have been a piece of the Chinese weather satellite that the Chinese destroyed with their new ant-satellite weapon just a few days before.

The U.S. Government owes us an explanation! Even if it's just a made up explanation.

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