Chevrolet always had that erratic illumination problem. Those of us that fly Fords are everyone else's figments of fertile imaginations.
Posted on 08/22/2006 4:26:52 AM PDT by Kurt_Hectic
Calls streamed in to local police stations during the night after an unidentified flying object darted over the night skies in northern Norway. A top astronomer, though, thinks it was another meteorite. Astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard thinks the object flying though the northern skies Monday night was a meteorite.
Several police districts logged reports from members of the public who observed "something" flying at high speed.
"What they're talking about here is some sort of flying object, and we can't explain what it was," Oddgeir Slettli, operations leader for the Midtre Hålogaland Police District, told dagbladet.no.
Observations were reported from Finnsnes to Trondheim. The main search and rescue station in northern Norway (Hovedredningssentralen Nord-Norge) reported that calls also came from crews on board ships off the northern coast, according to Dagbladet.
"It was colored white, green and gold, and lights seemed to blow off it like it was a sparkler," said one observer, Andre Grønmo. "It looked like it was a comet, and it was around four- to five times larger than a plane, and it flew much faster."
Slettli said others described a "green, lighted ball with a tail" that flew low. He said neither the Defense Department's radar station or its rocket facility at Andøya, nor the tower at Evenes airport, which serves Harstad and Narvik, had picked up the object.Slettli said calls came from people in Narvik, Vesterålen and Lofoten among other places, just before midnight on Monday.
A flurry of reports also came over the Coast Guard radio, and from an SAS flight and a Hurtigruten (Coastal Voyage) passenger ship.
Knut Jørge Røed Ødegaard, one of Norway's most well-known astronomers, said he thinks the UFO was actually another meteorite, a large rock containing a lot of chemical elements. There have been confirmed reports of at least two meteorites hitting Norway since June.
"When they enter the earth's atmosphere and meet the air, they warm up and can light up in a second," he told dagbladet.no.
This one's contents, the astronomer said, could explain why it seemed to change color as it flew through the night sky, which only recently has started getting dark again after the summer's midnight sun.
I took my brand new, anti-grav outfitted Chevy out for a spin over the North Pole. I must've wandered a little too far south while chasing figments of my imagination.
12th Imam alert?
Nanu Nanu.
Norway?
Old Santa's been hitting the bottle pretty hard this year.
Norway? - It wouldn't surprise me. Many of these Imams seem pretty confused.
Why is everyone so quick to discredit a possible UFO sighting? The possibilities are endless when one considers the DRAKE EQUATION. It is a real shame though, that the people of this miraculous PLANET EARTH cannot even take care of this ONE BLUE MARBLE IN SPACE!
The other possibility is that the people of NORWAY are out on the Fjords too long! I prefer to BELIEVE THE SCIENTISTS - WE ARE DEFINITELY NOT ALONE!
Sounds like a meteorite. I've seen two. Probably went in and out of the atomsphere many, many miles above the Earth. Those seeing it would have had just a few seconds to get a camera on it.
Chevrolet always had that erratic illumination problem. Those of us that fly Fords are everyone else's figments of fertile imaginations.
Yep! Its a UFO alright!
UFO pinning for the Fjords ping.
We're Dooooooomed!
SCOFF all you want - your picture looks like a hungry Herbie the Love bug!
It was most probably NOT a meteorite; the most recent meteor shower has been over for quite a while now...did anyone look for pieces on the ground? If it was as large as they said it looked from the ground, it surely would have left fragments! Get out there and look for evidence people.
Good idea. This morning I took out my old army helmet (steel pot) and put a nice 15 micron layer of tinfoil around the outside. I'm going to wear it all day, just in case the Iranians generate a quantum magnetic field in the Northern hemisphere designed to short circuit cerebral synapses. For those who wish to follow my example, please ensure that both aural orifices are completely masked, otherwise the rays will still have a path to enter ones head.
Yesway!..........
A bad barrel of lutefisk.................
It's Calypso Louis' mother ship!
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