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Reports: 'Fireball' Crashes into Water Off New Jersey
1010 WINS ^ | September 2, 2007 | 1010 WINS

Posted on 09/02/2007 7:41:36 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough

TOMS RIVER (1010 WINS) -- A fiery streak across the sky got the attention of the Coast Guard Saturday night, after the reported fireball crashed into the waters off the Jersey Shore.

Concerned calls started coming in from South Carolina to Long Island about 9 p.m.

Coast Guard boats were searching near the site of the reported impact, off Normandy Beach in Toms River, about 10 miles off shore. No debris has been found in the water.

The Toms River Fire Department says it also got some calls and there were at least 20 people on the beach with the same story.

The FAA has not reported any missing planes and they doubt it was part of an aircraft. Even NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) chimed in, saying it probably wasn't space junk.

A Coast Guard spokesman suggested the sightings could be the result of the Aurigid meteor shower.

Astronomers had predicted a possible light show over the western parts of North America Saturday.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; coastguard; meteor; meteorite; norad; space; uscg
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Just another alien fishing expedition.


21 posted on 09/02/2007 8:06:40 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: MarkL

Call me an alarmist, call me an a**hole, call me whatever you want.

Paying attn to AQ’s chatter forever and perhaps seeing 1/10th of it. they’ve mentioned the skies/orbit/cosmos a lot. and they keep on praising the scientists.

yknow i don’t think i have a real point here but this is unusual, a fireball and they have an obsession with manhattan for the record.

it’s beyond my recognition what this could mean, but...the ping to cindy was well placed.

i’m simply looking for anything out of the ordinary, and this month, this city- this is almost weird. we don’t see fireballs daily.

-h


22 posted on 09/02/2007 8:07:47 AM PDT by neverendinghunt
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To: dragonblustar

Is that you, Rosie?


23 posted on 09/02/2007 8:08:22 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea
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To: LurkedLongEnough

24 posted on 09/02/2007 8:08:34 AM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

The interviewee has so many gaps in his self-taught singularity knowledge base that Ian, the interviewer, did well to keep the conversation going. Callers were highly critical, not even playing along this time.


25 posted on 09/02/2007 8:08:57 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: Westlander

If we had Gort the Clinton Administration would have been vaporized; along with .79 of the politicians!


26 posted on 09/02/2007 8:13:45 AM PDT by Loud Mime (The Democrats next target for "resignation" is General David Petraeus! Air America started 8-28)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
I wasn't anywhere near Grover's Mill last night. All I remember is a red flashy...

... sorry, what were we talking about?

27 posted on 09/02/2007 8:19:59 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("How'd you get that scar, mister?" "Nicked myself shaving.")
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To: databoss
Look up in the sky it’s the NifongVickCraig comet (careers)crashing to earth....

So big that the heat of atmosphere entrance failed to dissipate it. /s

28 posted on 09/02/2007 8:20:34 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Several years ago I was out for a walk at night, and suddenly this long green streak appeared in the sky to the east, almost horizontal to the horizon. It ended in a bright green flash. Just at that moment a police officer happened to be cruising along in his car - he pulled up next to me and said, "Did you see that?" I said, "Yep, I sure did!" He nodded and said, "OK, good enough." It was probably just some large chunk o'stuff that burned up before it got too close.

But I live near the area where this "fireball" was sighted, and I guess that explains the helicopters and the sirens and the traffic. And I'll guess it was probably some chunk o'stuff that did make it through, and I sure hope it didn't blast a hole through someone's boat!

29 posted on 09/02/2007 8:23:07 AM PDT by dbwz
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To: Westlander

It was a message from aliens, protesting the casting of Keanu Reeves as the new Klaatu in the remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (coming Fall 2008!).

Yes, I’m serious.


30 posted on 09/02/2007 8:24:32 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Happily watching the Left go full-goose bozo.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
NORAD chimed in to say it wasn't space junk? WTH? "We are here to say it was not, repeat, NOT space junk"
31 posted on 09/02/2007 8:24:55 AM PDT by ZinGirl
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To: LurkedLongEnough

32 posted on 09/02/2007 8:25:46 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

I’ll be in the basement with my tinfoil hat on, in case there are any calls.


33 posted on 09/02/2007 8:28:28 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: LurkedLongEnough


Dont run we are your freinds
34 posted on 09/02/2007 8:31:01 AM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: jiggyboy
Did it emanate from Grover’s Mill?
35 posted on 09/02/2007 8:32:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

John McCain’s and John Edward’s Presidential campaigns maybe...


36 posted on 09/02/2007 8:33:12 AM PDT by jgilbert63
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To: dragonblustar

Ya know ya really should warn people before they scroll ... ROFLOL


37 posted on 09/02/2007 8:34:16 AM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: EGPWS

overcast night in late June of 1967 while driving eastbound late at night near Detroit the sky suddenly became greenish, peaked in its greenish brightness, then diminished to what it had been.....all of this took less than ten seconds. It was so astonishing to me that I stopped the car. The next morning the news was that it was a huge meteor arriving through the atmosphere on a south to north trajectory and it had actually landed waaaay north in a sparsely populated area of northernmost Canada.


38 posted on 09/02/2007 8:35:10 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: neverendinghunt
Call me an alarmist, call me an a**hole, call me whatever you want.

I'll call you semi-literate.

There are ten capitalization errors in your post.

39 posted on 09/02/2007 8:37:22 AM PDT by humblegunner (Me wise magic)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Blue Oyster Cult concert?


40 posted on 09/02/2007 8:40:45 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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