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Space Junk or a Meteor? Fireball Lit Up Midwestern Skies
The Space Reporter has this to say about a fireball witnessed by many midwesterners on Thursday night:
"The massive fireball was seen in the early morning hours in Iowa on Thursday night. At least 700 people have reported a sighting and the fireball was reported by people across the Midwest, including Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska. However, astronomers say they are still unsure whether the fireball was the result of space debris or a meteor. Officials at the National Weather Service say they are working to determine the source of the fireball, although the leading theory seems to support a meteor was the source." CCTV footage of the fireball is great, though it doesn't stack up to the world of Russian dashcams.
IT was an UFO we shot down but we are calling it some kind of weather equipment
If you read the trail dots it leaves, and translate into morse code, it would be like .. .- (dot dot (space) dot stripe)
if you translate that i reads:
I ET
One error is excusable, but three or more glaring errors are absolutely unacceptable.
Absolutely. You should ask for your money back.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
That's the federal government for you, trigger happy assholes. You NEVER get elerium out of a shoot-down. They can't do anything right.
Drunken Santa miscalculated and burned up on reentry.
Silence is a state of mime.
Did any news agencies bother to ask them if they even detected something?
They did - And even released footage of the incident, including footage from a fighter jet -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNeMNXQBzd8