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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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SdI7KnLGN8
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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
I was driving east on I-80 in Council Bluffs, IA. At the time I wondered if it was a meteor or something man made. It was bright white but had a green hue as it broke up.
I was also a bit grateful there was no earth shattering kaboom.
And that's because the last time they tried to land in both New York and Los Angeles they were found in an alley naked and beaten with a garden hose up their ass and their spacecraft stripped on cinder blocks. So much for "civilized places"....
This is a sig. This is only a sig. Had this been an actual sig you would have been informed where to tune for more sigs.
Which begs the question: who are you stealing wifi from?
No it doesn't
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
That was the top of my skull reentering orbit after my head exploded at the end of the Chiefs-Chargers game (eliminating the Steelers from the playoffs).
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
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.
IT was an UFO we shot down but we are calling it some kind of weather equipment
Let's not jump to conclusions, yet. We must correlate this with reports of missing persons, anal probings, and the number of cows that have been turned inside-out in the area.
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
Someone explain to me why the strange behavior of the tail before the object seemingly veers off.
Probably just burning up unevenly. Many celestial objects are not uniform in their composition. They are composed of different materials of varying density and some also have gas pockets - or holes, or empty spaces, anyway. I've seen one meteor changing colour as it fell, and when it broke in two, it appeared to suddenly change direction, because one of the two diverging remnants was burning much more brightly than the other.
So, unless its path described a curve, or it turned back on itself, slowed or accelerated quickly... it's probably not what you fear.
Now, if you would kindly direct your eyes to this pen I'm holding in my hand....
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
Security systems that actually have the correct date/time are quite possibly rarer than those that have the date/time wrong. Most often the things get installed by an overworked and undertrained electrician who doesn't have any incentive to set the time, and even if he did it's just a standard PC clock that wanders and no one ever goes back to maintain the thing until it fails.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
It burned up before it hit the ground, so it probably wasn't anything very big or very solid. Ice or rock, probably. Yawn.
Some space junk does make it all the way down. Titanium or stainless steel pressure tanks often make it relatively intact. Less solid stuff rarely does.