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Hundreds Spot Fireballs In Colorado, Nearby States
pingpong writes "Hundreds of people in Colorado and 7 surrounding states have reported seeing "fireballs" in the night sky. They are described as being 10 to 15 times larger than a normal shooting star and bluish in color. Two people even claimed to see one land, but it has yet to be found. The Daily Camera is reporting it online here."
Field reports invited.
I think this guy owes us an explanation. Does he know something we should know?
Have you been stalked by Seth today?
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And i was really really looking forward to being probed.
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Keep salt water handy...it's your only defense! It melts them.
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
All we need now are signs in random fields and we can start to panic.
Arm those water guns!
It's gotta be weather balloons. It's always weatherballoons. Big, fiery, exploding weatherballoons
Be wary of any facts that confirm your opinion.
one of those ships from Quaoar ..
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Could it have anything to do with the three and a half pounds of sodium in the other story I just saw?
Quick! A giant meteor is speeding towards the earth! Send Bruce Willis and a couple of Oil drillers to save the world!!
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...fragments from the damaged space shuttle cam?
Over at the Denver Post
There was a time in my life when I would have been excited by this. ...but then I saw 'Signs'.
I'm going to go home and start filling up water glasses.
A speech...
I had the time to: understand (maybe) what it was, wake up my wife, stop the car, get out an look. Total time maybe 20 seconds. The 'object' was moving slowly, spewing green flames and eaving a long lasting orange trail behind. Trajectory was more or less horizontal. It disapeared in a flash. I tried to listen but there wasn't any noise besides the cooling car engine.
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On the "astronomical" chance of anything being discovered, Sgt. Byfield said, police would have contacted officials from the University of Colorado to determine what to do.
Dude, I'd be mad as hell if some whack journalist put my name in the same goddamn PARAGRAPH as that pun.
"Ask me about Loom"
Well it had to happen folks, THEY are landing! Let's hope they mean to share this planet with our race!
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
I saw the most beautiful "shooting star" in Virginia Beach, VA Saturday night. It was a very cloudy night, so we were JOKING about the possibility of seeing a shooting star...and this one was probably the brightest I've seen in my life.
I wonder what's going on...
(if you recall the Heaven's Gate mass exodus to join the "companion" of Hale-Bopp, it was Art Bell's program that reported the possibility of the companion to the comet)
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Other than:
- When they arrived
- Where they were seen
- Why they were in this vicinity
- Color
- Speed
- Size
- Origin
- Composition [Class III Fireball - Do not handle without proper training and protection. Consult your handbook.]
Reach for the sky, hombre!"LUNCH, NOT LAUNCH!" I yelled as he absent-mindedly pushed the button that freed the living quarters from the rest of the station.
Ok. I'm looking out the window. Hey! I see clouds! Cool. That looks like mountains over there... I wonder if 3pojjaet8rj['[545$YW#$#..
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Ok. I seem to have crashed. I can't move my legs. Could someone please get me an asprin? I'll try to walk. Oh God! The pain... it's excruciating! Ow. I think my leg just snapped. Ow. Ow. Ow.
A bunch of geeks saw the slashdot story, went out and got a bunch of metallic sodium, and the rest is in the story.
Many years ago, my family was driving from El Paso, TX to Albuquerque, NM, when we saw a number of fireballs. The first occurred just after sunset, was visually a large, bright green glowing object leaving a smoke trail. It traveled east to west and lasted about 10 seconds, then broke up into two pieces and disappeared. We were just north of El Paso, and were listening to KOMA in Oklahoma, City - there were many reports called in to them from many states.
As the drive continued, we saw about 6 more fireballs, all red, all running east to west, through the rest of the evening.
Quite a show. The clear and thin high altitude air of the rockies, along with the lack of city lights, makes these sitings a lot more common in those areas.
We didn't see any LGM, however.
The only good weather is bad weather.
D00d! take your meds... now.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
There are many people that believe in the year 2003, another planet is going to enter our solar system from either outside the solar system or another dimension. It's known either as Planet X, or a name that starts with N, which escapes me at the moment... I do find it an interesting coincidence that a story was just posted about the discovery of a new planet, and now to hear of these bizarre fireballs. I'm sure they're having a field day with this on the Art Bell show tonight. I'm a skeptic on all things "extraterrestrial" and paranormal, but it's still really interesting to listen to. :)
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The sodium-in-the-pool experiment must be a go-code for them. ("Go go go! Our undercovers have turned all the water into acid!")
This is the funniest signature I could ever think of.
My favourite quote: "in the Gunbarrel area...". Americans! You're so damn steeped in gun culture you name neighbourhoods after weapons' parts.
True true, but as a previous resident of Colorado I can tell you that these names are at least 120 years old. They were so-named during the frontier era when the only thing that kept you alive was your gun. Mountain men relied on thier weapon for food and for protection. That's just the way it was in the West during the 1800s, and that's why they named stuff the way they did.
It just makes a canajen boy shake his head and celebrate the difference.
Maybe you should study your countries' history a bit more.
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is the planet's name, for anyone who wants to do a Google search or look on Art's site about it. I should also mention that they expect highly evolved alien races to accompany this giant planet/spaceship. :)
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"rash of fireballs" Reading that line made me snort milk.
From the Denver Post article:
"It's probably a 1 or 2 on a scale of 10"
I wonder: what is considered a "10"?
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These big, slow green fireballs happen from time to time. The only difference this time is that there were two different consecutive fireballs in two days. Its probably two chunks of the same rock...
Just like shoemaker-levy did when it smashed an earth sized crater in Jupiter. No worries.
I note that the reports are of the fireballs landing near Boulder. Does this mean that Mork from Ork has arrived?
Nanoo Nanoo!
[For those young whippersnappers who don't watch TV land, the popular TV show Mork and Mindy, starring Robin Williams, was set in Boulder]
Several /. readers e-mailed their concerns over a sharp increase in one-liners today, fueling speculation that these one-liners are not just a random occurance, but perhaps the first ungodly signs of the oncoming apocolypse.
..." Taco then gurgled and sputtered and dropped to a heap on the patio.
"usually we'll see a few, maybe even a bunch, of one-liners for certain stories we've posted," said CmdrTaco, languishing in a drunken hallucinagenic stupor on the steps of his villa in the south of france. "but christ, its like henny youngman possessed the populace on a scale rivaling that of
"certainly one-liners are a common, almost obligatory, form of logical reponse," said one reader, "but this many makes me want to get in a white van and shoot people at random. do these people think they're funny? its really just in bad taste."
one-liner watchers are unconcerned however. "we've seen this before - like the article about the giant Bart Simpson doll copulating with a penguin - and no substantial harm was done on the long term." some, however, are still reliving the nightmare.
with no end in sight to this barrage, Micro$oft engineers have released a worm to tack on at least 3 sentences promoting WindowsS.Ux, Ballmer Edition to each post to space out the green bars just a little further.
I don't know if this is related or simply a coincidence. I was driving north on I-55 very early on Monday morning. I was somewhere around Springfield, IL, when a flash in front of me and slightly to my left and slightly above, maybe at 30 degrees, caught my attention. I didn't see the original event very well, since it was just in my peripheral vision, but I saw a very bright green tail that stayed lit for about two seconds. Unfortunately, since I was driving all night I don't remember now exactly where I was or what time it was, but it should have been around 2:00 am +/- 1 hour.
It was much more spectacular than anything I'd seen before. And this includes last year's Leonid meteor shower, which I watched in New Mexico, at 7,000 feet of elevation, and far away from city lights (and not behind a dirty windshield!). So this one was really something. It broke a very boring drive and helped keep me awake, thinking about it.
How typically Canadian. Instilling Canadian gun culture in 4 year old children. Digusting!
Dragonball Z characters have heard about Quaoar and are fighting over who gets to blow it up first. The fireballs are just strays from the combat. Nothing to be concerned about I'm sure.
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the movie Signs [imdb.com]
I mean really similar to the plot lines.
Maybe it was a warning... or maybe they really ARE coming back to take over since they've already turned our president into town fool (I mean national).
WOuld it be Orson Welles, by anyc hance?
Jay (=
The first conlusion we should all jump to is that this is unequivocable evidence of an extra-terrestrial encounter.
All those who say otherwise are cynical naysayers.
By the time they are convinced it could well be too late. The time for action is now.
I for one support the military action that George W. Bush is planning for these alien enemies of state. So grab a gun and head for Colorado! Time is a-wasting.
I saw one the other night in southern Arizona.
It was bright white/blue and left a greeenish trail. It left an vapor trail that lasted approx 3 minutes. It appeared directly above me and heading southwest.
54 comments, and only one triffid reference??? and that one made reference to the _stupid_ movie where salt water killed them.
what's wrong with you people!
maybe there's just nothing funny about plants that eat people...
Yeah, well I was hanging out in the Sears on Bolt Street, when I heard about this party happening down on Breach Avenue. I got into my Colt and hammered my way down the street, with my hair-trigger reflexes in my fingers. I scoped out the target and got a grip on the situation. I squeezed my way into the crowd and set my sights on this girl. I locked and loaded my line, and came up to her and told her I could clean her bore. Needless to say, she slapped me with a magazine, and clipped my fun for the evening. Fortunately, I had the caliber to move on to the next range the day after, and soon I was rifling my way through the lanes. The alley was pretty cool, but I wasn't cocked until I saw the one of my dreams! The hunt was over, all I needed to do was hit the bullseye here. I saw her go into the powder room, and strategically positioned myself for her return. When she came out, I got a grip on my nervousness, and asked her to join me for some evening shooting. We played all night, then went back to my place. She asked me to show her the double-barrel. She chambered my round just fine, and I shot a load. I now knew the meaning of what it was like to be a sex pistol.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
If you're like me, you *want* to see some pictures.
http://www.cloudbait.com/science/fireballs.html
Quite a bit of extra information is on this site as well.
To make a pun demonstrates the highest understanding of a language
might i remind you the probability of successfully navigating an asteroid field is 3720 to 1?
You wrote: "How typically Canadian. Instilling Canadian gun culture in 4 year old children. Digusting!" Perhaps my perspective stems more from the value and education placed upon a gun. Seeing gun ownership as an extention of your Constitutional Rights and a necessary control upon your elected officials seems to play into the the perennial fascination Americans have with the wild mythos of the 'True West', not to mention the ultimate political extension in the form of the Monroe Doctrine.A gun to me is utilitarian object but potentially dangerous and is to be treated as such. Perhaps where my first introduction to gun lore was by way of two injunctions: (1) Treat every gun as if it were loaded; (2) Never point a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot, perhaps the 'merican ethos is more akin to threaten to shoot as a matter of foreign policy.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
... great balls of fire!
What a concept! It simply shakes my nerves and it rattles my brains.
"My knowledge of guns started at the age of four when my first .22 calibre single shot rifle was purchased for me."
.22 when you were four?
You got a
I live in Texas and I never shot anything but a BB gun until I was 12.
How can you even make a comment about Americans and guns? =P
~Dalcius
Rome wasn't burnt in a day.
reentering our atmosphere and burining up like...FISHY FIREBALLS!
Not to be confused with the local Szechuan restaurant's seafood special, FIERY FISHBALLS!
I read a few days ago that near Irkutsk, Russia a big meteorite seem to have fallen in a remote location. The thing seemed to be huge and it seems to have landed as there was a small quake after getting out of view.
Besides, if I don't miss things it looks like that there is one more account about a similar phenomena out of the USA. Unfortunately I don't remember the place.
So, it seems that we are inside some fresh new cloud of cosmical debris. The events we see are probably the result of Earth crossing the trajectory of Kuiper belt newcomer. Usually, when this happens, we get some spectacular phenomena on the skies, usually presented as meteorite showers. However this fireball show is surely less usual to see. The fact that this lasts for a few days is probably the result that the newcomer crumbled to pieces while approaching the Sun.
I found it odd that they said it happened at almost the exact same time on both nights and each night it was heading in a different direction.
Being in Colorado, if on the chance it was our government playing with a new toy, I wouldn't be surprised. IIRC, Nevada, offshore California and the Rocky Mountains and parts of Colorado are prime testing areas.
There are some pretty crazy ideas out there for propulsion, however I know of none that would create anything this big in such a shape (tail only 2-3x longer than width one person stated in the Denver Post article). This also doesn't explain descriptions of "chunks falling off" of the fireball.
I have yet to see "Signs." I suppose in this case that's a good thing. =)
~Dalcius
Rome wasn't burnt in a day.
Would somebody please shoot this guy?
I too am Canadian,
I too was taught RESPECT for firearms.
I too heard the words "Treat every gun as if it were loaded"
Perhaps it's something in the water up here.
*grin*
About that same time, I saw one from Fukuoka, Japan. The tail looked just a bit green with some orange. But other than being a big, pretty shooting star with a green tinge, it looked pretty much exactly like every other shooting star I've ever seen. I forgot to even mention it to my wife when I got home.
I mean, it's not like it slowed down or reversed direction.
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
I find it amazing that my paper, the Daily Camera could actually merit a post on slashdot.. wow..
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Having had guns pointed at me by cops I can tell you that it gets your attention real quick. Not pointing the gun at someone until you actually intend to put a bullet in them overlooks the secondary purpose of guns, which is to make the blood run like icewater in your veins.
Incidentally all I was guilty of was speeding (10 mph over) and not pulling over when they put the lights on me (my back window was iced over and there are lots of streetlights on mission street in santa cruz.) The minute they bleeped the siren I pulled over, and I rolled down my window to find two guns pointed at my head. Scary as fuck.
Also, your bit about foreign policy is just trolling. Fish elsewhere.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
yeah right.
It's very odd that the CNN article said the second fireball was going the other way from the first one. If they were both from a debris cloud and occurred at the same time in the same place they should have been going in exaclty the same direction since they would be travelling in more or less the same direction and the orientation of the Earth in relation to their path would be more or less the same...
If the article is correct, one or both of the fireballs must have been something else, such as a sattelite reentering the atmosphere, despite all the quotes from experts saying that they were meteorites...
"Intercourse, PA". Amish! Pennsylvanian Dutch! You're so damned steeped in sex culture you name towns after sexual acts.
Sure, maybe you should lay off the cultural anthropology classes and stick to hockey.
(how many canadian street, town, city names have 'moose' in them?)
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heh. word up ;] my crenshaw homies r on it.
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O.K. aka Izzak Walton... right you are I was trolling.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Well I'm about 7 miles away from Gunbarrel in Lafayette. It's just a few miles to the east of Boulder. Gunbarrel is a nothing town between Boulder and Longmont. Nothing happens there.
To stay on topic, however, these "fireballs" are causing the most brilliant members of the Denver area to make their opinions known. Several people, went interviewed on 9 News, were convinced that an airplane had flown into a building...
Riiighht.
"I either want less corruption, or more chance
to participate in it." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
We have guns in Canada???
Yeah. all those canadians. they're out to warp our fragile little miiiiinds.
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No doubt this is the beginning of the end for Colorado as the ALiens are probably kidnaping thousands of people and implanting them with mind control computers that will turn them into mindless Microsoft users. Who Cares.
It was a Cooey long rifle single shot, simple bolt action; I grew up with it as I grew up hunting. If you find my father's serious intent to teach his hunting and wilderness skills to his only son incredible, then you'll be dumbfounded to know I was born having inherited my great grandfathers 1894 44/40 Winchester. I no longer own it although I had a strong attachement to it. My dad's people trapped the tiaga for generations and hunting and wilderness lore were passed on almost like training for a trade.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
It wasn't one of the most recent fireballs, but the one on September 6th.
It was probably around 8 at night and I was walking back to my dorm room (Univ of Colorado at Colorado Springs) from work. I was almost back to the campus when I saw a bright but small fireball in the northeast sky. Mostly white with a bluish tinge it moved pretty slowly (for a metor/shooting star) across the sky, parallel to the ground, and leaving behind little particles that glowed briefly before fading away. After about 30 seconds, the fireball itself faded away.
Since there was a plane in the sky near where I saw it first, I thought it was a firework or something shot from the plane. Maybe the military testing something (who doesn't like a good mystery?). For some reason, a metor never occured to me.
I've always wanted to see one of these, cool.
I would think that your that your post validates his original point that:
1) you shouldn't point a gun at what you don't intend to shoot.
if required, I am sure that the cops were prepared to shoot. Not without provocation, but prepared... fer sur
There's just so many ways to reply... but to stay with the ambience... how 'bout we've already kicked your ass at hockey, now we're just trying to help you see things a little more multilaterally. :0
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
The test firing/flight of a new, top-secret weapon/aircraft was explained as an incredibly co-incidental pair of meteor entries occuring at roughly the same time and in roughly the same area of the sky.
Coincidence. Yeah. Right.
Vaya con huevos, my darling.
Dood! William Empson's "Seven Types of Ambiguity" and N.O.Brown's "Life Against Death", wherein he advocated 'polymorphous perversity', informed my posts. I made a lighthearted jibe at a random bit in the newsbyte. When I got some robust replys I decided to play push the button labelled 'American Gun Culture', but I threw in the Monroe Doctrine to see if it would hit a nerve, the 'foreign policy' stuff was mostly a troll.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Canadian Fireballs ... and other Astronomy information can be had from this website. It is part of my Astronomy professor's site, and he specializes in fireballs.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
I wonder if govt experts know more about this crossing. Maybe this is coincidence, but I remember recently there were some reports with the concern for unsophisticated countries not being able distinguish meteor impacts from a nuclear attack. Also, what is the Kuiper belt?
just wait till they find the landed cylinders and the fighting machines climbout and start laying waste. Then I guess we'll have to run to Saddam to get some of his biological weapons to fight them. ;-)
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done on the people who are still alive.
Sept 20th at 0415 in the morning I was locking up the office to go home and as I turned away from the door I saw one go tearing across the sky from high in the southern sky to low in the north. It was amazing... almost the size of a dime in my field of view, bright white/blue with chunks breaking off that flamed orange and maybe a flash of other colors but it was over pretty quickly. :)
I thought the Northern Lights were spectacular but this thing blew my mind
I just never want to see one coming right for me.
Was I the only one that was expecting some photos at the daily *camera*?
Anyway, for those of you jealous of Colorado residents, take out your geeked out keychain and stare into the bright blue light. Now step outside and look at the sky. Yeah... it was a lot like that...
And don't worry, they should go away in a few hours.
aTek
Its called Ball lightning, you can often see it in places with dry weather conditions due to static building up in the atmosphere. http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html
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I live about two miles from the Gunbarrel area, and I this story is the first I've heard about it. The area here consists of a lot of bored hicks, and we all know the sorts of things bored hicks try to generate a ruckus about. Take two Coors Lights and call me in the morning.
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Clearly the work of Aum Shinryiko and the Scalar Interferometry Machines leased from the KGB. See here
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That is because *they* don't want you to...
I kinda remember it being called an area lager than 42 or something...
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No one seems to be linking these in any way, but they are quite rare events. There's a fair chance the UK one was also the russian one, but that's at least 3 fireballs within a week. Is that a coincidence?
The news claimed that it was an optical illustion of the sun playing with the upper atmosphere. Ya, right, like I didn't hear that in MIB.
;)
You know it was the replicator controled Tok'ra ship falling to earth.
If you read the article you'll notice an utter and complete lack of any facts.
This reminds me of Orson Well's war of the worlds, but boys, isn't this about 3 weeks early to start this kind of story?
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
Hey, I'm not the only one to have seen this!!
I live in France, in Choisy-le-Roi, at 12 km of Paris.
At about 20:00 UTC (22:00 localtime) with (+-10 minutes of error), I've seen one fireball falling. I don't know the size and the distance at which it falled. But the direction was 170 degrees from my position. It didn't falled directly from up to down but with a small deviation from east to west.
I've called the local autorithy (Gendarmerie Nationale) at about 23:40 (localtime) but they said they had no other report.
Am I the only one to have seen this in France ?
There is no George W jr.
George H Bush is the Father
George W Bush is the son. you have to have the same full name to be a jr.
Appropiate slights on him are: Shrub and Dubya.
I'm sure there are others.
His alchoholic daughters are hot.
I'd poke 'em.
Who run Barter Town?
... the first Martians arriving to Earth. I guess after their failure in London, they are now trying their luck in the US...
remember the guy with the sodium, yeah I think that's him...
"I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense" J Watson, Sci Am 288:(4)51
Hundreds of people in Colorado and 7 surrounding states have reported seeing "fireballs" in the night sky. They are described as being 10 to 15 times larger than a normal shooting star and bluish in color. Two people even claimed to see one land, but it has yet to be found.
Jim, have you been near the Kool-Aid again?
Another witness reported seeing a bluish object about 10 to 15 times the size of a typical shooting star streak across the southwestern sky Monday night south of Boulder.
Wasn't that the guy who asked Kevin Kostner to call him "Mr. X" in the JFK movie?
From what I understand this is the same guy that also saw that indestructable "tin-foil" laying around in Maricopa by Roswell after that big bang one night. And he once had a Job on Area 51 and had this bumb-in with a small greyish green bug-eyed humanoid in a silver spandex jumpsuit.
I know that guy. He's absolutely trustworthy.
Really.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Tuesday night around 9:00PM EST I saw a fairly large "shooting star", it took a few seconds to cross the sky. I saw it through quite a bit of light pollution too, but I've actually seen a fireball while I was in Badlands National Park a few years back. This was no fireball, but definetly not the norm.
You have witnessed a bit of the terrible secret of space. Let me push you, to prevent any more from being revealed to you....
Apparently another one landed in Russia - there is a fresh impact crater reported at wired.com
Okay, here's my wild speculation to add to the bunch: These fireballs remarkably coincide with a space shuttle launch. I think they were caused by either debris or other "stuff" originating from the craft.
When I was a teenager we were on vacation in the Wisconsin Dells around my birthday in early August, which just happens to coincide with one of the biggest and best annual meteor showers. I saw quite a few 'normal' shooting stars that night, but I also saw one weird, slow, silent, huge orange fireball. Though I've looked for years, I've never found an explanation of just what I saw.
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I'm not a big fan of seafood, but my girlfriend insisted I try one of her favorite childhood foods. It tasted about like shoving a live bass in your mouth and licking it as furiously as possible.
My girlfriend's aunt told me, "We Chinese people, for many years we do not have many things to eat, so we learn to eat anything!" and laughed and laughed. I just said, "No shit, but the frog ovaries aren't half bad."
I was driving my friend home in eastern minnesoata after a concert and saw it streaking down the sky. I have been wondering what it could have been to set off that blue color. Well at least now I know I am not crazy and did see it.
yes... but only the government and criminals...
its a secret... we have lost our rights!
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Carmack and his merry band got more than the advertised 6 secs of flight. Where exactly is Armadillo Aerospace located?
And shook me like a dog.
I am a Karma Library.
The Quaoarian people know that we have spotted their planet, and now they are attacking us with their fireball launchers before we realize their hostile intentions!
Too bad X-Files has been cancelled, now we're all screwed!
Burning down Hemos' house wasn't enough. Now he's trying to burn down Colorado.
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Quite often, coincidence is the only explanation you need. We just tend to notice coincidences and dismiss the randomness - our brains are well adapted to do that. Spotting correlations is critical to survival. Coincident data points are necessary, but not sufficient for corelation.
Helium balloons want to be free.
I can't be the only one who noticed the "Liquor Mart" banner ad across the top of this article and down the right side. Why there's even a $5 off coupon. Perhaps that could have something to do with the "sightings." Man, I'm cynical today.
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Last year, while sitting on a dock in Northern Ontario (nice beer drinkin' summer night), my friends and I saw a blue meteor streak across the sky. Now, we weren't sure if it was the pot or the beer...but out of nowhere, we saw this meteor streak from East to West, clear across the horizon. Beautiful, really. The front was blue, and the tail was a light orange color. The really cool thing about it was that you could actually *hear* it.
We weren't sure if we were actually seeing what we were seeing (remember - pot and beer) until we heard a kid from about 10 cottages down yell: "MOM!!! LOOK!!!" Lasted about 10 seconds. (or six minutes, depending on your state of mind)
Needless to say, our wives didn't believe us. (one look at the bong, and all we got was "uh huh. Sure you did...".)
I was driving east on I-70 just east of DeBeque on Sunday evening. I saw a HUGE flash, and leaned forward to be able to see up out of the windshield. I saw the most incredible fireball heading from my right to my left and back a little. Generally north, but the highway twists around so much in that stretch I couldn't tell for sure. Man, was that cool. I honestly thought some kid had shot a roman candle at us. It was huge, intense, and leaving an orange and green tail. As it went, little sparks fell off of it. I only saw it for an instant, as it was really moving. Just awesome.
I'm here at the crash scene... there is a glow and a deep hum and a glow coming from the crater... a door is opening... oh my god... they're coming towards me... this is the most incredible thing i've ever trererewwerw
They're not actually fireballs. They're the emergency escape shuttles for the RIAA members. They know that Peer-to-Peer sharing is here to stay, and that customers are getting pissed, so they're hightailing it off the planet and going home to Alpha Copyrightiapissathelistenersoffa 5.
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Well, I happen to work in the Gunbarrel area, and I just happened to be near the airport the article mentions at about the time (extreme coincidence, I won't go into details here).
The only bright light I saw was an airplane landing at said airport. Personally, I think what was going on was a lot of drug use. (Yes, there is enough drug use in the Boulder area to have 60 people mystified by an airplane landing.)
I live in northcentral Wisconsin, and I happened to have been driving last night at about 2am (*ahem* ....) when I saw something extremely similar to these fireballs. The one I saw was relatively slow-moving (about a 2-second display,) and appeared in the eastern sky. Extremely large (approx 10x usual meteorite size) and blueish in color, it traveled in a nearly vertical line from about 70 degrees to below the tree line. (15 degrees?) I never saw it burn out. It left no vapor trail, and I immediately slowed my vehicle & rolled down my window, but heard no sound.
Perhaps these things are happening over a larger range than previously thought?
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I followed the link from the Daily Camera to a site that was collecting info. Since most sightings indicated the meteor to the west, and I saw it to the east, maybe they can triangulate. I saw it near the horizon, so it may have been large enough to hit the ground.
There are two kinds of societies: sustainable and doomed.
No shit, I saw one the other morning here in Medford, OR! It was cool as hell.
Other than when I was a child, I never really gave much thought to UFOs. However, I did have an experience with *unidentified flying objects*(for you have literates, this means I saw objects that I could not identify flying, not that I saw alien spacecraft, UFO != alien spacecraft).
I was at Clearlake with some friends about 4 years back, it was a new moon and you could see satelites with the naked eye. My friend had tried to tell me about "ufos" he saw, but I laughed at him as he was a Sightings fan and well, believed the things that Sightings fans believed...
Eventually, we all began to see what looked like satellites, except they moved all throughout the night sky. They were tiny points of light, so they could have been just about anything, but they moved across the sky at very fast speeds, to get to one end of the sky from the other took them about 15 to 20 seconds. If that's all they did, I'd say "satellite" but then the little buggers would do right angle turns and contine towards a different section of the sky altogether, sometimes pausing, other times simply turning to a different direction. They would occasionally go to the same section of the sky, seem to meet up, pause for a moment or two, and then continue to move around the sky. It went on for hours, and was still occuring when we finally packed it in and went to sleep. We saw them on every subsequent night after that.
Personally, I believe that they are experimental aircraft of some type, probably unmanned, but that's pure speculation on my part. I only know I saw these wierd points of light doing things that I had previously thought was impossible. I didn't get abducted or probed or anything like that, but I did see those lights, and all my friends saw them. I personally believe that anyone will see them if they go to a remote location(away from light pollution) on a new moon and just watch the sky. If you can see satellites with the naked eye, I believe you will see those lights, as a few of my friends have seen them on subsequent trips.
Show me an effect without cause and then I'll believe in chaos.
United States, Britain, New Zealand, all seeing similar fireballs within a week of each other? A report of one coming down in Siberia? Is this some elaborate worldwide hoax? Sounds much too suspiciously like "War of the Worlds"! Even the time of year is right! This is definitely weird!
If it is a relatively new debris stream from a comet or something, I hope nothing really big is coming!
VASIMR to Mars!
Did the goatse.cx guy start trying to ignite his farts again!?!
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I once saw what I thought was a satellite or a high-flying aircraft passing through the night sky roughly from south to north -- until it made a 90-degree turn almost directly overhead and accelerated so fast it was out of sight in about 1/2 second. (If you know how slow high-flying aircraft and satellites appear from the ground, you'll know that to cover 50% of the sky in almost no time at all is fast.) I didn't hear anything either.
When I mentioned it to my dad, who's a pilot and can identify almost every man-made flying thing in existence from minimal cues, he said he had no idea what it was either. My guess is an experimental unmanned aircraft, but it seems unusual that someone would be testing such a thing over London, Ontario.
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
This is one case where "loosing" would be better (at least funnier).
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Oh no! Fireballs have HMIS information?! I already have to find the rest of those 10 000 Material Safety Data Sheets for work; where oh where am I going to find contact information for "Fireball Manufacturers"?
As if my job weren't tough enough...
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I saw one last January. It did indeed look like a very large and green shooting star. This sighting was in northern Ontario Canada at about 8:30pm.
True genius is grasping a situation like a peice of fruit, and peircing it just right so that it drains dry.
There were a number of rumors of certain advanced aircraft being developed during the Reagan and elder Bush administrations. These dried up during the Clinton years (well, the DNC -did- sell our nuclear secrets to the People's Liberation Army in exchange for campaign contributions)
Now Bush jr. is in office for perhaps long enough for these to have been removed from mothballs and are again being tested, perhaps on an accelerated schedule.
These may include the diamond shaped craft and the boomerang shaped craft seen in Canada last week.
Pulse jets with orbital capability, plasma emissions to lower air resistance and increase lift, etc, could plausibly all be in testing at present.
Recall the UFO sightings prior to the unveiling of the late 70s technology B-2 bombers?
If they all had the same radiant, with random arrival times and locations, I'd be inclined to think a cometary debris field (though I'd expect lots of non-fireballs as well). But this is not the case.
One such object apparently crashed in northern Russia last week.
It was 54 years ago in central Italy, driving at night on a desert mountain road. I saw a fiery fireball in the sky, moving slowly from left to right.
I had the time to: understand (maybe) what it was, wake up my wife, stop the car, get out an look. Total time maybe 20 seconds. The 'object' was moving slowly, spewing green flames and eaving a long lasting orange trail behind. Trajectory was more or less horizontal. It disapeared in a flash.
I (and a bunch of other people) saw something similar at Lake Tahoe a few years back. Distinctly purple, slow moving, leaving trail, no sound, no flash.
Turned out to be a space shuttle re-entering on its way to Cape Canaveral. The purple is due to the composition of the tiles. The final orbit and upper-atmosphere reentry is visible over Tahoe due to the inclination. (I think that's a side-effect of chosing an inclination that lets them switch to Vandenberg [on the next pass?] if the weather at Canaveral is too crummy.)
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Hats off to you, sir. You have a good mind.
BTW, people who are actively reaching for their higher selves do tend to be more aware of the fucked up stuff going on in the skies these days. Most of the brain damaged posters who responded to your story would most likely not even be able to recall witnessing such an event at all.
--And not just because the bulk of zombie nation are ill-inclined to do any sort of hiking in the wilderness, (hiking and star gazing on top of old caves is a true sign of coolness!), but because they have that amazing ability to re-boot their brains at the first sign of trouble. Perhaps you know what I'm talking about. --I've witnessed numerous times where people have been shown 'impossible' things point-blank, which they actually cannot remember as little as half a day later, or which they radically warp and re-write in their own memories so that it may be quickly dismissed.
Both small and great minds think alike, but the small ones only do so because they all watched the last episode of 'Friends'.
BTW, have you been watching? Didja catch the last 5 big-assed meteors over the last month and half? I tend to think it's just the beginning. Should be interesting, regardless!
Take care!
-Fantastic Lad
Last week i was riding my bike to work around 4:30-5:00 AM PST (I live in BC, Canada) And i saw this white-blueish fireball.. it had sparks and the like flying off of it, sorta like how it's desribed in the article. It was really cold and really clear out, when those are the conditions you can see lots of things you usually can't see here, like the Northern Lights that i think i saw too :)
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But don't let this affect your consumerist activities, citizen. The government is already throwing up some "don't panic" propaganda.
Oh really? 30 times a year? This is the first I've ever heard about it.
Meanwhile, the powerbrokers in the know are quietly preparing to withdraw, (after killing all the jews and arabs), into their Shadow Government strongholds beneath whatever mountain range they think will save their asses from the end of the world. Silly rabbits!
Okay, that's my two cents. You may now return to Quake or whatever. Cheers!
-Fantastic Lad
I bet that somewhere there's a list that looks like this:
... and so on.
Poodle: Cooked meat.
Goldfish: Popped.
Cat: Incomplete, hard to catch.
Pickle: Glows. (?!)
Beer: No way.
Cousin Ellie: Incomplete, won't talk to me now.
Bug: Zap.
I commented on this a few posts down. Here's the link if you're interested. .
-Fantastic Lad
I got my first rifle when I was six. On the other hand I didn't have unsupervised access to ammunition until I was 14.
I seem to recall there was an alternate theory for the apparent patterns in mass extinctions, having to do IIRC with the solar system's periodic crossing of the galactic plane (and the associated greater number of chunks of things big enough to cause climate-altering impacts, etc.).
"Biped! Good cranial development. Evidently considerable human ancestry."
Yes, it is the Martians, or Zhti Ti Kofft as they call themselves. The fireballs were warning shots. If they really fired the death ray, the oceans would have vaporized, covering the earth with a killing hot steam. Let us be thankful we haven't made them angry enough to really attack.
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here's a story from last year about the ark twin star, (a big ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite, but which is more than large enough to send some planet killing debris from the Kuiper belt, thank you very much!)
So there ain't no aliens living in Planet X coming to resuce everybody who's been good and loving. That and all the other CIA induced New-Age crapola regarding "Nibiru" is, IMHO, pure & stinking bunk.
However, I tend to be of the thinking that the dark-star came and went about a year and a half ago; there were several half-assed "Do Not Panic, Citizen", plant stories circulating regarding this phenomenon around that time, (put there in the event that anybody on this globe might wake up and realized what was happening. That obviously didn't happen. --Or at least not with anybody who had access to a decent telescope at the time. .
In any case, the Dark Star has most likely done its work. There have been 5 other big-assed meteor strikes over the last month and a half alone. .
Check my post on this story for links to stories of those events.
-Fantastic Lad
Blizzard tried to warn us, but nooooooooooooooo. We were busy crushing newbies online. Now the Burning Legion is upon us, and I don't think our hero, George W., has leveled up yet.
We at least need more time to creep.
"Follow your Bliss." -- Joseph Campbell
> The Kurds, who were gassed, are not "his people."
He has also killed killed people in Southern Iraq. IIRC it's some shite vs. sunni thing.
> Hussain invaded Kuwait because George Bush gave it the go ahead first.
Source please, something other then bedwettingliberals.com
> his chemical weapons came from the United States
wrong, while we did send him samples and technology (which I will not defend) his chem weapons were homemade.
> Oh, you mean Enron?
I didn't know Enron is Iraqi. I'll tell you who is over there Russia, France, and China.
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Millions of slashdot'ers have electrocuted themselves today...
Here's an interesting thing to try-- Stick a couple of old forks in a pickle with the handles pointing away from each other. Split a power cord down the middle and attach some alligator clips to the cut off part. Attach the clips to the forks and put the plug in the wall. After a few seconds, you'll see the pickel glow yellow between where the forks are stuck in the pickle. It's pretty neat to watch.
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I'll say there is no way to determine the odds of him cheating; there is no relevant statistical information provided.
Say you've driven up into the hills to find the meteorite, thinking you could maybe sell it to some them scientist fellers upta college. If it has broken open and is pulsing greenly, DO NOT poke it with a stick.
It means a geek finally got a date (with an actual woman)
Table-ized A.I.
Hm. An 'AC'? What a surprise.
Get a name, get informed, or go buzz around somebody else's ears, you silly gnat.
-Fantastic Lad
You should get a nice Powerbook, so you can upload a virus to the main computer of the mothership.
But let them blow up the White House first, okay? (I'm just KIDDING, Echelon analysts!!!)
nicklott wrote:
> strange, there was one in the UK last week
> (several comments link to it so I won't), and
> one that landed [bbc.co.uk] in russia
> [cosmiverse.com] too.
>
> No one seems to be linking these in any way, but
> they are quite rare events. There's a fair
> chance the UK one was also the russian one, but
> that's at least 3 fireballs within a week. Is
> that a coincidence?
Probably not. The Draconid meteor shower is expected for yesterday and today. The Draconids are known to storm on occasion. Fireballs are kinda rare, but two recent Leonid storms featured fireballs (1998 and 2001). Draco is a very northern constellation, so I would think the northern hemisphere sightings you give could be connected.
Hopefully, it is nothing to worry about. King Ghidora appeared the cover (upper right corner) and the back of the centerfold of Gamepro Magazine, and will be in two games enjoying global release at the end of the month. He's probably just showing off. Enjoy the fireworks and pray he doesn't make an appearance as the King of Terror or Mr. Mass Extinction Event!
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Actually the self organizing stars probably means that you were watching one of the Grateful Dead movies. I forget which movie it is but one of them begins with a formless Fantasia like light show as the band is making "warm up" sounds. Then the light show morphs into the band itself onstage and Jerry G. says "Are we rolling?" {Then me and six other housemates busted out in laughter and frisbee playing that lasted for the next seven hours...}
The socks turning into meat probably means you were hungry. Be careful out there though --> only let your {ostensibly sober} trip master operate the fiery grill device; fire hot, fire very hot!!
--Richard
Since the last ridicule post you threw at me 40 lines down in this story. Did I hit a sore spot, hmmm? (Unless you're a brand new AC. -I swear, you kids are like fruit flies!)
-Fantastic Lad
Here is a picture of a 1998 Draconid fireball:
r ac onids98.html
http://www.comet-track.com/meteor/draconids98/d
1998 was also the year of the Leonid storm (with fireballs) and the coming of the King of Terror in "Mothra 3: King Ghidora Attacks".
Movie (December 1998): "The great devil will come from the sky!"
Video Subtitle (Summer 1999): "The King of Terror is coming!"
Moll, "Mothra 3: King Ghidora Attacks"
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The fireballs were reported to have been traveling different directions at the same time of day, so it would stand to reason that they didn't come from the same rock.
Still, many people are misinterpretting the CU Professor's words. He said simply that the occurance of a fireball is rare when we are not in a meteor storm. We happen to be in the middle of two, the Leonids and the G-something (I forget the name; it's a wierd one). Therefore the probability is much greater that there will be fireballs.
What I find strange is that they were so proximal nearly 24 hours apart and from different sources without tons of other sitings elsewhere at night. I'd say it was chance, though. After all, there was a siting in the Netherlands.
I thought it was fairly common knowledge that the super secret pet flight project of the government is the "Aurora". They use external combustion, essentially igniting the fuel on the wings of the plane to provide thrust. I'm not an aeronautics engineer, so I have no idea how or why that's any better than current technology, but they've been testing them for years, causing many a "UFO" sighting.
Considering that there's a couple of Air Force bases around here (Colorado), not to mention being within flight distance to Nevada, Utah, and other desolate places used for testing, it doesn't surprise me that they were seen.
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This one has a photo
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Found it on diepunyhumans.com
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Offtopic??
Jerry Lee Lewis = Great Balls of Fire!!
How is that Offtopic?
Lucy....you got some 'splainin' to do....
They did not intend to shoot me; They were thinking about it. It is inappropriate to point a gun at something which you do not want to perforate, but they did so to keep me cowed, which was hardly necessary as I was just a kid on his way home.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Urm... how is that offtopic?
/properly/ reproduced in the lab there are several anecdotal accounts of people being either killed or shocked by balls of what appears to be ionised and charged gas. My godmother even saw one float straight through a closed window, but luckily it turned and dissipated itself in the wall.
They could be weather balloons ignited by alien discharge-weapon fire after all.
Surely ball lightning is another candidate? Although it's never been
It's still a really contentious area, but not much research is being done on it (except for the wacko free-energy guys on Keelynet who wouldn't recognise peer review even if it hit them squarely in the bollocks). I have a tesla coil mind you - just need a few more Amps on my mains supply to try my hand!
-- Sig Sig Sputnik
Out for a walk late last week in Southern California with some friends, a big blue streak shot across the sky...FAST, before disappearing just two seconds later. This one seemed very low and VERY bright; I'd guess maybe 10x brighter than a star. I don't go watching meteor showers or anything, so I don't have anything to gauge it against, but I have seen the Space Shuttle/ISS with the naked eye. This definitely looked much brighter, lower, and faster.
I saw it from the colorado springs area
I saw both from the colorado springs area, both were more green than blue, fairly big tail, the 1st night it was almost directly west, the next night it was more south west direction from teh Springs. Both seemed to last about a full second from when I noticed them.
I would've suggested this company as a manufacturer of Highly Rated Fireballs, but they've switched business models. Will Atomic Fireballs do?
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Experience comes from bad judgment.
Last night 2 gentlemen smelling of marajuana said they witnessed a shower of great balls of fire in the sky. They also mentioned that the sky was raining hot dogs and the ground was made of cantolopes.
About two years ago, a friend of mine was on Wreck beach late one night when there was an absolutely spectacular northern lights display that almost covered the sky. As she was watching it, she said aloud "Oh, man, I can just imagine watching this on LSD".
3 guys (strangers) who were just behind her chimed up in unison.
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