Posted on 06/03/2004 5:38:41 AM PDT by Selene
Enterprise going to warp?
Doc Brown's time machine hitting 88 MPH?
Superman and Darkseid coming to blows?
Just swamp gas.
...no, really.
For once, having Puppy Bladder is a good thing.
Very strange.
Why do you have a hard time believing it's a meteor? It fits the profile.
I live on Whidbey, and I thought the "booms" were the usual sonic booms I hear occasionally from fighter planes coming from the Whidbey Is. Naval air base.
It was very, very bright, IMHO too bright for meteor. I have not heard any reports that it was a meteor?
Bump...
I saw what looked like a shooting star last night around 11:30pm eastern time in Jacksonville, FL, but it seperated into multiple fiery streaks while coming down. Looked kind of like the shuttle coming back in pieces, but not as big. It was North - Northeast from here.
Ping!
Large Meteorites have been known to "detonate" in the atmosphere without ever impacting the surface.
That huge area of Siberia that was levelled back in the early 1900s was attributed recently to a large meteor detonation. I don't think that they ever found craters or where anything actually hit the ground.
Fortunately it was all over uninhabited wilderness and no one got hurt by it.
They say that these detonations can be equivalent to a multi - megaton nuclear device, and a big one over an inhabited area could be big trouble for inhabitants.
There was a metorite detonation over the middle East back during the Gulf War, apparently, and for a while there the military thought that some one had popped a nuke in the area. I guess there were a lot of severely puckered sphincters for a while there untill they got it sorted out as an act of God, rather than an act of Allah.
It sounds as if whatever this was happened over Western Canada someplace. Do we have any reports from up thattaway?
For that matter, have we heard ANYTHING from Western Canada this Morning??!! Hello!: Anyone still alive up there??!!
Bremerton AFB-Tacoma?
Things like this occur more often than most people probably think, its just that it is pretty rare when it happens close to a developed, densely populated area that gets media exposure.
I see that all the time when it is lightning here in Eastern Washington. :-)
A meteor entering the earth's atmosphere can be a spectacular sight, unlike the pinpoint streaks that you see from far-off meteor showers.
What are the experts saying it was?
It's a Naval Air Station. The EP-3E that was involved in the collision has been repaired and flown again in US Navy service.
I heard it this morning. Sounded like small explosions going off. Several quick, boom, boom, boom, boom. But, I didn't see the flashes.
"Geoff Chester, a spokesman for the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. said it was a type of meteor called a bolide, one which appears bright like a fireball in the sky."
I didn't do it.
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