[meteorite-list] Streak From Sky Mystifies Many In Ohio

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:05 2004
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Streak From Sky Mystifies Many
By KRISTY FOSTER,
Morning Journal News (Ohio)
February 14, 2002
 
WINONA - Look in the sky ... It's a plane. It's a bird. No it's a meteor
shower. Hanover Township, Guilford Lake, and Winona firefighters were called
to a home on Schneider Road after a giant fireball looked like it landed in
an area near Tower Road and state Route 9.

Jessi Woodall, the resident who made the initial call - one of three from
the Hanover Township area - after witnessing the sight in the sky, said that
the sight scared her because she thought it was a plane coming down.

The Salem Police Department reported being inundated with calls from people
reporting that they saw a ball of fire in the sky.

Woodall was in her family room watching television, the one night of the
week when she gets to sit back and relax because of work and school
commitments, when something caught her eye out of the sliding glass door.

When she got up to look, she saw a ball of fire heading for a tree line at
the edge of her parents' property.

She said she called for her dad, but he couldn't see it. The young lady then
called other relatives to see if they had seen it. All of them reported no.
But she was sure she had witnessed something.

She said that after landing, it sent out shooting blue lights and then
quickly extinguished after lasting a few minutes.

"It looked close, but it was moving so fast," Woodall said.

She described it as being a bright yellow ball with red and orange on the
outside similar to the sun.

After a 45-minute search of the wooded area, area firefighters reported
being unable to find anything and had began to call off the search.

Just when the members of the fire department were frustrated by searching
for the mystery ball ...

The Columbiana County Sheriff's Department told the firefighters via scanner
that the Federal Aviation Administration had reported a meteor shower was
occurring in much of the area between the states of Ohio and Wisconsin.
 
Received on Fri 15 Feb 2002 08:18:26 PM PST