Posted on 09/18/2007 3:00:16 AM PDT by prisoner6
VILLAGERS in southern Peru have been struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area. Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was a plane crashing near their remote village, in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.
Residents complained of headaches and vomiting...
Farking Excerpt Snippers...
A picture of the crater and a link to an article that makes for fun reading after a Google translation.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Coincidence? Synchronicity? An omen?
Wells described the motion as if a 3 legged milking stool was being violently rolled.
And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder. A flash, and it came out vividly, heeling over one way with two feet in the air, to vanish and reappear almost instantly as it seemed, with the next flash, a hundred yards nearer. Can you imagine a milking stool tilted and bowled violently along the ground? That was the impression those instant flashes gave. But instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand.
Can't remember what they used as the decay material (Strontium-90 sticks in my mind), but NASA crashed a Pu-238 bearing probe into Jupiter, rather than one of the moons, to avoid radioactive contamination.
Red Lectoids from Planet 10.
Does it resemble “The Lochnar?” Calling Hanover Fist!
No, Buckaroo, H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds...
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