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20 Feb 08 - 02:45 PM (#2267673) Subject: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Alice Yesterday morning in the dark sky over Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, people saw a huge ball of colored light come down and crash to earth. People close enough to the impact heard a sonic boom and felt the impact. It hit south of Spokane, Washington, which is in the eastern part of the state near northern Idaho. I posted some black and white video links to a security camera in a Boise parking lot when we were discussing it in chat last night. Here is a color video from CNN. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/02/20/am.hotshots.meteor.cnn Alice |
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20 Feb 08 - 03:23 PM (#2267727) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Rapparee That's just Larry Craig's balloon bursting. |
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20 Feb 08 - 03:34 PM (#2267744) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Alice Do you think it hit at Cheney, WA, Rapaire? |
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20 Feb 08 - 03:48 PM (#2267755) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Alice Comments from those who viewed it in my area Meteor sighting |
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20 Feb 08 - 03:57 PM (#2267767) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Amos IT is highly improbable that the area where it landed was scoured and no sign of impact was found. C'mon, now---if a fireball or meteor hits from black space, you know its gotte be moving at a serious clip. So they didn't cross-correlate the landing site well, or else it was some kind of miracle... A |
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20 Feb 08 - 04:31 PM (#2267806) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: GUEST,mg Could it have been the satellite they were going to shoot down? Perhaps they did. mg |
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20 Feb 08 - 04:46 PM (#2267817) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Rapparee The USAF has secured the entires states of Idaho and Washington as well as parts of Alberta and British Columbia. It's another Roswell! Only this time all they've found is a partially burned door with a name plate on it reading "Shatn" and a above the "t". Nobody yet knows what it means. |
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20 Feb 08 - 04:59 PM (#2267828) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Bill D those things always look like they are landing 'just over the hill'. I saw one in Kansas about 1954 that I gather actually hit somewhere near N. Mexico. (I was a paperboy, and it lit up the sky enough that I could read a book on a dark street) |
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20 Feb 08 - 06:55 PM (#2267982) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Don Firth Denver, spring of 1956. I was staying there off and on for about a year and a half. One evening, just a bit after sundown, a friend and I were sitting outside on a couple of lawn chairs, talking and just generally loafing on a pleasant spring evening when suddenly everything lit up. A meteor streaked across the sky. Big sucker! I saw it split into three parts and continue toward the horizon. "Did you see that!?" I asked my friend. "Yes!" she said. Then, many seconds later, we heard what sounded like distant thunder echoing across the sky. I don't know if we were hearing a sonic boom or the sound of an impact somewhere. Oddly enough, nothing on the news. Nothing in the papers. Were Mary Anne and I the only people to see it? I would hardly think so. Anyone outside at the time couldn't possibly have missed it. I've seen a lot of meteors since then (during meteor showers and such) but I've never seen anything quite as impressive as that. Don Firth P. S. No, I don't think it was an alien mothership and two shuttles. P. P. S. As far as the satellite is concerned, I don't think they've taken a shot at it yet. The navy was going to try it today as it passed over the north Pacific, but I understand it's been postponed due to bad weather. |
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20 Feb 08 - 07:45 PM (#2268041) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Donuel The Shuttle landed today,,, you don't think they dumped their toilet before re entry do you? |
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20 Feb 08 - 07:49 PM (#2268045) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Donuel This last fall China demonstrated that they could blow up a satllite from the ground...this caused a terrible added space junk problem and more cold war jitters. You don't think this is our military way of saying "oh yeah, watch this?" The sattilite never made a stable orbit to start with and we never blew up sattilites when they were about to crash before - even when it was sky lab. |
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20 Feb 08 - 07:50 PM (#2268046) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Sorcha Be damned if I can even remember the year, but mid 60's I'm sure. I was young, and I can't remember if my sister was born, but I think she was, which would make it after May 59. Winfield, Kansas. It was late, we were all in bed. My brothers room had eye level windows all around, and suddenly the entire house, but most especially his room (because of the windows) was lit with a very red light. Loud whooshing sound....and a ball with a red trail of 'fire'. It 'looked' like it landed in the next block...but of course not. Never a word from anyone else, neighbors, etc, or any 'news' about it. I still wonder what it was. |
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20 Feb 08 - 08:00 PM (#2268052) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: The Fooles Troupe Well, it came outta the sky... |
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20 Feb 08 - 09:09 PM (#2268116) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Rapparee ...it had one long horn and one big eye... |
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20 Feb 08 - 11:34 PM (#2268225) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: Don Firth Keep THIS phrase in mind. Don Firth |
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21 Feb 08 - 01:28 PM (#2268705) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks for posting, Alice. It's so rare to see any footage of a meteor, even if it is mere surveillance footage. I wish I could have seen it. Before doing anything else, we should check to see if Bobert is still in space. He might have been behind all this. |
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21 Feb 08 - 11:40 PM (#2269222) Subject: RE: BS: Meteor, NWest USA, video From: GUEST,crazy little woman Funny you should say that, leeneia. Here's the whole story, which you will never see on CNN. A while ago, Bobert posted that he was coming to us from space, and Leeneia asked him to throw a nice meteorite into her yard in Missouri. A carbonara condra, or something like that, although that sounds like Italian food more than anything else. Bobert had reservations at first, but after a while he decided to try it. He looked up the co-ordinates for Missouri, but his eyes skipped a line and he wound up shoving the meteorite toward Missoula instead. Unfortunately, Bobert doesn't know his own strength, and he overshot Missoula with the result that the meteorite was seen in Washington. All clear now? |