Mushroom Cloud [in Utah?]

Coast to Coast AM ^ | Friday, September 24, 2004 | Brian Justice

[Momaw Nadon]

On our way back home from a family drive on 8/29/04 my wife and I noticed a peculiar mushroom cloud just east of our home in Wellington, UT. We ran into the house and brought our both of our digital cameras and started snapping pictures. Within 2 hours there were three different “explosions” resulting in mushroom clouds.

We emailed a local news station; they looked into the pictures but to no avail. There were truck drivers parked at the gas station just down from our home, the drivers did not dare drive the road for fear of whatever was happening out there. Pretty scary afternoon, especially during this time of heightened alert in our nation.

--Brian Justice

[Momaw Nadon]

FYI and discussion

[nuconvert]

Something blew up.

[KantianBurke]

u get checked for radiation exposure?

[Fierce Allegiance]

Just blasting for dam construction. /sarc

[scooter2]

Looks like smoke from a brush/forest fire to me. Seen this same type of smoke plume many times at forest fire sites.

[Lil'freeper]

There's gotta be a Michael Moore joke in this somewhere....

[netmilsmom]

Isn't this the UFO show on overnights?

Do we have any weather people here that can explain the clouds in this picture?

[small voice in the wilderness]

blowed up good.

[mhking]

Paging Art Bell....

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Somebody tried to start a fire by rubbing two Osmonds together?

[Jet Jaguar]

Could it have been a forest fire? I'm serious. I saw the same type of smoke cloud develop south of Fairbanks, Alaska a few years ago. It was a raging forest fire.

But, in Utah? Weird stuff.

[Gefreiter]

Look into the red light, please:

Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

[evolved_rage]

Its Kerry, burning his Vietname records.

[Momaw Nadon]

u get checked for radiation exposure?

I live in MA.

The pictures were taken in UT according to the author.

[gimme1ibertee]

It's just Kerry bloviating again at some distant rally.

[Hatteras]

Dang, must have been series, you didn't even take the time to close your door!

[Fierce Allegiance]

[babble-on]

swamp gas

[PokeyJoe]

Tree's devoid of vegetation - picture taken well over a year ago during Winter, or late Fall.

Looks like a fire in the Wasatch, or on the Rockies range. I've seen these types of plumes many times. Esp. when the wind is light during the early hours...

[July 4th]

Looks like smoke from a brush/forest fire to me. Seen this same type of smoke plume many times at forest fire sites.

Ditto. Seen the same thing from brushfires in California.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Check to see whether Mikey Moore or Clinton were in town. They may have gotten together to hold a fart lighting party. Liberals wrestling with issues and fixated in a troubled adolescence are known to do that on occasion.

"You're traveling through another dimension,
a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind;
a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are
that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead-
- your next stop . . .
The Twilight Zone!"

[Red Badger]

From the home of MOAB, I'd say they were testing some. That cloud looks just like the ones we had here in the FL panhandle after the Eglin AFB MOAB testing....maybe a bigger version?......mo MOAB!....

[RGSpincich]

The paint on the roof of Astro Vans always deteriorates in an atomic blast. Missing any paint?

I have an Astro and know the answer. ; )

[Rhetorical pi2]

Just part of the North Korean "hydro-electric" program.

:o)

Please move on...nothing happening here...

[Rebelbase]

My mom and sis visted Arizona a couple or few years ago and took a similar photo of a smoke cloud from a huge forest fire about 20+ miles away.

[CurlyBill]

There's gotta be a Michael Moore joke in this somewhere....

Well, I heard he ate Mexican the night before this happened.

[docman57]

Eeeeeewwwwwww.....who farted??!!

[4everontheRight]

The cloud looks too "clean" to be smoke from a fire. Plus, the "ring" in the middle seems to indicate an implosion of some type.

Just my Friday morning theory...glad I got that out of my system.

[WakeUpAndVote]

MOAB. Just lifts them up a little higher so G-D can see what he should let fall back down.

Kerry said there are no go zones. There soon will be. Evacuate the law abiding populous. The MOAB do the rest.

[Crazieman]

I don't think the cloud is tall enough to be a nuke. If you look at most photographs, nuke clouds are thinner and higher before they have the fallout stem develop.

Probably a forest fire. Though I wouldn't rule out MOAB tests.

[Hatteras]

"Plus, the "ring" in the middle seems to indicate an implosion of some type."

A campaign implosion by chance?....

[blackdog]

Michael Moore used the trampoline in the forground. The mushroom cloud is the impact zone.

Seriously though, it looks like a typical explosion from a mining operation. They blow away entire sides of mountains/hills/canyon walls, etc....

[InvisibleChurch]

I think it's one of those "Paul is dead" pictures

[roaddog727]

Did you hear (or more likely feel) anything afterwards? specifically shock-wave from detonation? If not, most likley fire as indicated in several previous posts.

[Hot Tabasco]

Could it have been a forest fire?

Possibly but I don't see anything in that picture that is combustible with the exception of the shed. Sand don't burn to good....

[N. Theknow]

NO! NO! Mohammed - When the pin is pulled Mr. Suitcase Nuke is not our friend!

[mc5cents]

He blowed up good. Yea, he blowed up REAL good.

[t1b8zs]

looks more like a Toadstool...........

[crz]

OH Brother! Look chum. Thats a cloud from a fire. If it was what you are thinking, you'd a heard about it over the news as well as felt the shock waves being as flat as it looks.

[Rick.Donaldson]

Nothing to see here. move along. (That's an explosion, as sure as I'm typing on this keyboard. I've seen those before. Looks like it was rather large, too).

[Momaw Nadon]

See post #14.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Did one of your .38 Special +++++++P+++++++ handloads make it to Utah?

[ThirstyMan]

Gefreiter: Look into the red light, please:

Ha ha! Getting out the nuralator? Good idea. But how do you explain the alien entrails all over the photographer's cap?

[LowOiL]

Looks like there was probable a fire along that mountain area. There looks to be lingering smoke along the horizon of the mountain from left to right. If there was three of these clouds he need to picture them. Also note that the photos have obstruction of trees ect.. right at the base orgin of the fire. Disingenuous in my opinion.

Last but not least, the site that hosted these pictures seems to be a tin-foil site IMHO... just checking the root home page out.

[Lockbar]

Hey small voice, this pic is obligatory when the term "Blowed up real good" is used on F.R.! ;-)

[Harpo Speaks]

Those are classic wildfire clouds -- I should know, I've lived in southern California for 30 years.

[roaddog727]

Doh!

Well, had you felt a shock-wave in MA, I could say with certainty that it was in fact a nuke.

BOOM

[steveegg]

Hmmm. The base seems to be too wide for any type of explosion (nuke/non-nuke/MOAB). There's no forest fires listed in Utah, though there is one on the border of Nevada and Utah (nowhere near Wellingon).

Glock, anything you heard?

[Vision]

hehehe

[Professional Engineer]

Been in Utah lately?