Reports: Giant Fireball Streaks Over Colorado Sky....

Denver Channel ^ | Nov 10th, 2009

[TaraP]

DENVER -- Dozens of Denver's 7News viewers called the newsroom Thursday evening to report a giant fireball seen streaking across the Colorado night sky. Many of the callers all said the fireball looked as thought it crashed into the earth somewhere on the Front Range.

It was spectacular," said Keith Cabaniss of Longmont. "I was sitting on the porch and saw it come from the east headed west to southwest. I was at the right place at the right time."

A research scientist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science confirmed that the fireball seen by many people was a meteor, according to Julia Taylor, spokeswoman for the museum. It was not immediately known if, or where, the fireball crashed into the earth.

The meteor was seen around 6:30 p.m. as far away as Fort Collins, Colorado Springs and Wyoming, according to eyewitness accounts passed to 7News.

It appeared so large that one Ken Carl resident said that she could even see the flames from the fireball.

The Poudre Fire Authority dispatch center said that the first calls about the meteor came in at 6:35 p.m. from eyewitnesses who thought that they saw a plane crash.

The Federal Aviation Administration investigated but concluded that there were no overdue planes, according to a dispatcher. A plane crash was ruled out by the FAA.

Many viewers who called 7News claimed the fireball was one of the most spectacular sights they had ever witnessed.

The flight control tower operators at Jefferson County Airport said that they saw the fireball at 6:21 p.m. and it "lit up the entire control tower." It was then seen streaking across the Continental Divide, according to an airport manager.

KRDO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Colorado Springs, said they got calls from viewers who say the meteor looked as though it touched down near Pikes Peak.

While the sightings were far and wide, the researchers at the Museum of Nature and Science would not be able to get confirmation on the meteor until Friday morning when data could be analyzed, according to Taylor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD1PL8ruvEo&feature=player_embedded

[rdl6989]

The Leonid meteor shower is happening.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1783822/the_2009_leonid_meteor_shower/

[SkyDancer]

Barack Insane Obama’s ego crashing to earth?????

[TaraP]

Saturday: San Francisco had a huge Fireball

SUNSET FIREBALL: If only photographers had faster reflexes.... On Saturday, Nov. 7th, around 5 p.m. Pacific time, a brilliant fireball raced4 across the sky of California’s San Francisco Bay, where tens of thousands of people saw it. So far, however, not a single photo of the fireball has emerged. The meteor disappeared into the sunset before anyone could raise his or her camera. When shutters finally started clicking, all that remained was a trail of debris:

[mitchbert]

Bush’s fault!
Sorry, just had to :-)

[listenhillary]

It would rock if someone got video of this.

[Richard Kimball]

[2harddrive]

Perhaps it was an alien spaceship, coming to pay homage to Hussein Obama?

[Red_Devil 232]

Did you happen to see this meteor?

[TaraP]

Maybe that is what caused the huge blackout in Brazil?

[TaraP]

They did I posted the Youtube of it...

[Fiddlstix]

Good question. lol

[jiggyboy]

[B-Chan]

GIANT FIREBALL CRASHES INTO EARTH

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WOMEN, MINORITIES HARDEST HIT

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Damn! I gave them the wrong address! Now I’m stuck here for another 1.37 million tears.

[TaraP]

Plus Blackouts in Brazil tonight!

[Flavius]

all these 1oo/mo cell ;phone plans and not one photo

how 1980’s

[gaijin]

I don’t know that THIS particular incident was a US weapons test, but I do know that we’re working on it pretty hard.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/334

[gaijin]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070122-ball-lightning.html

[sten]

next week we’ll find out that it was a mile across, made of iron, and luckily just bounced off the atmosphere

[woofie]

2012 is starting early ! dam that GW Bush

[adorno]

I was at the right place at the right time.

If the "fireball" had landed near him or on him, then "he would've been at the wrong place at the wrong time".

[MES401067]

I saw it in Albuquerque N.M on the way home tonight.Very cool to see.

[MES401067]

I saw it in Albuquerque N.M on the way home tonight very cool to see.

[adorno]

Looks like you saw it twice.

[upchuck]

I wonder if something that large crashing into the earth would be recorded seismically? If so, the impact point should be easy to figure.

[DHSMostWanted]

His approval numbers are crashing.

[Migraine]

I saw it in Albuquerque N.M on the way home tonight very cool to see.

It would be instructive to know whether you saw it in the north, or the western sky?

[patriot preacher]

The original source lists the post date as November 2002..?? Ok, what gives? Just now getting around to posting this?

[DHSMostWanted]

He would bow to them too!

[IYAS9YAS]

Then there's this - www.freerepublic.com

[TaraP]

No tonight...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD1PL8ruvEo&feature=player_embedded

[IYAS9YAS]

The original source lists the post date as November 2002..?? Ok, what gives? Just now getting around to posting this?

Yeah, late November 2002.

However, see my post 31.

[TaraP]

We are seeing quite a few of these fireballs lately...

Scarry...

[MES401067]

To the west.

[MES401067]

lol

[fellowpatriot]

Barack Insane Obama’s ego crashing to earth?????

We can only wish. LOL

[ReneeLynn]

Uh oh! Couldn't we turn it loose in Congress?

[Naspino]

The worldwide blackouts (ie Brazil) is how Was of the Worlds started (newest version). The Catholic Church is investigating alien life... Uh Oh

[A.A. Cunningham]

It appeared so large that one Ken Carl(sic) resident said that she could even see the flames from the fireball.

Caryl as in Ken Caryl Ranch.

The flight control tower operators at Jefferson County Airport(sic)

Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport

[Myrddin]

On Sunday night there was a TV program discussing cyber terrorism. Brazil was cited as an "easy" target to bring down the power grid. Perhaps we've seen a demonstration that it can be done.

[NRA2BFree]

[Don W]

No, both his eyes were working!

[MtnClimber]

Did not see or hear a thing.

[texpat72]

Here....is this better?

[Publius6961]

It would have been very useful had you added the headline to that link...

Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning

[TigersEye]

I saw one here in CO a couple of months ago. It was huge and green and falling south to north. From where I sit in the mtns it would have been over or beyond Ft. Collins. When I say huge I mean it looked like it was the size of a quarter held at arms length.

[TigersEye]

The article says “seen on Thursday evening” so the one MES401067 tonight isn’t the same one unless that was an editorial error.

[2harddrive]

LOL!

[2harddrive]

He would force the entire PLANET into a posture of abject supplication before the Aliens! By the way, is the new V TV series any good? LOL.