[meteorite-list] Massachusetts Residents Report Hearing Sonic Boom, Seeing Fireball

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:03 2004
Message-ID: <200202110609.WAA13318_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>
> Hi Ron,
>
> I was at the Arunah Hill Natural Science Center in Cummington,
> MA when I heard the sonic booms. At the time I didn't know what caused
> them. Since there was a plane visible in the sky at the time I assumed
> that it had broken the sound barrier. However when I went to work this
> morning I saw that the front page of the Springfield Republican had a
> story about a fireball being sighted. The quotes in the paper are the
> typical "it landed in the woods over there" type (see link
> http://www.masslive.com/springfield/unionnews/index.ssf?/news/pstories/a
> e210sky.html).

Thanks for the report. Thus far, this fireball sounds similar to the
one from last summer, also over Northeastern USA.

>There was also similar coverage in the Berkshire Eagle.

Here's the link to the Berkshire Eagle article:

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/S-ASP-Bin/Ref/Index.asp?PUID=2182&Indx=1354810

Ron Baalke
Received on Mon 11 Feb 2002 01:09:15 AM PST