[meteorite-list] Burning Object Seen Over Kentucky

From: Rosemary Hackney <ltcrose_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:00:07 2004
Message-ID: <003e01c22d00$ac769e20$8a77d6d1_at_default>

Well.. hmm.. there have been notable sitings in Kentucky and Tennessee
lately. As I remember "something" crashed not too long ago and the place was
cordoned off and a lot of clean up activity was seen ..for a bogey. I
remember seeing something that looked like an aircraft falling out of the
sky in the general direction at the time.. Do not know if it is related. As
a member of Civil Air Patrol I called headquarters to see if there were any
missing craft. This was odd looking for sure.

Also A crop circle was found near the Ky/Tn border in White House , TN.
Several UFOs have been seen around Memphis area.

So know knows.

Rosie ( TN mufon )
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Burning Object Seen Over Kentucky


>
>
> http://www.cknj.com/cknj/myarticles.asp?P=374108&S=496&PubID=7014&EC=0
>
> County averages one sighting per year
> James Roberts
> Central Kentucky News-Journal
> July 16, 2002
>
> An unidentified flying object sighting near the Nally & Gibson rock quarry
> was probably a meteor or unusually bright star.
>
> On June 21, an anonymous caller reported a UFO near the quarry at 11:23
p.m.
>
> According to the 911 report, the caller described the object as "some type
> of space debris." The caller also said that the object "burned up as it
> entered the atmosphere."
>
> Taylor County Sheriff's Deputy Aaron Walters investigated the report but
> found nothing, according to Campbellsville Police Chief Bill Cassell.
>
> "It could have been a crank call. It could have been real. We don't know,"
> Cassell said.
>
> Walters could not be reached for comment but, Chief Deputy Allen Newton,
who
> was on duty that night, said it was just a bright star. Nothing fell to
the
> ground.
>
> "This may have been the same person that called [a UFO sighting] in two or
> three years ago," he said.
>
> That sighting was also just a bright star, Newton said.
>
> Kenny Young, an investigator with the Kentucky chapter of the Mutual UFO
> Network, said that it is unlikely that the sighting was UFO related.
>
> "That an officer responding to the call would make note of a bright star
> does not suggest anything unusual unless he made specific note that this
was
> something other than a star," Young said.
>
> The caller's description of burning space debris does not alert Young to
> anything unusual either.
>
> "I see no immediate reason to equate this with a UFO-related event," he
> said. "That being said, it is quite unusual for someone to notify local
law
> enforcement regarding their observation of incoming meteoric debris or
> re-entry of space debris."
>
> However, Young admits that he is interested in the sighting.
>
> "I have been following a number of unusual UFO sighting reports around
> Kentucky in the last few months," he said. "In the past two months there
> have been a number of UFO claims from some residents in Louisa, Ky., and
> other areas in east-central Kentucky that were reported to the National
UFO
> reporting center."
>
> A sighting caught on tape by a Lexington TV crew was likely an
> unusually-shape balloon, Young said. A report of an object landing near
Fort
> Knox was unverified.
>
> According to Dr. Anthony K. Grafton, a chemistry professor at
Campbellsville
> University, the caller's description and what the police observed may not
be
> the same thing.
>
> "A bright star could certainly catch someone's attention, but would not
> likely appear to burn up as the caller stated," Grafton said. "Bright
> planets, particularly Venus, have often been the objects of UFO reports."
>
> Grafton said that what the caller saw was likely just man-made debris.
>
> "Thousands of pieces of man-made debris are orbiting the Earth, and the
> re-entry of any one of these objects would account for the caller's
> observations," he said.
>
> Grafton said that the debris could "fracture as they burn up, producing
> spectacular, though brief, displays."
>
> The object could also have been a meteor, Grafton said, although it would
> had to have been large to produce a noticeable burning effect.
>
> "We are near the usual dates for two regular meteor showers: the Delta
> Aqaurids and the Perseids, although both peak several days to a few weeks
> from now," Grafton said.
>
> "Man-made debris and meteors enter the atmosphere and burn up every day,"
> Grafton said. "Much of it goes unnoticed and very rarely does any part of
> the object survive atmospheric entry and reach the ground."
>
> According to Taylor County Emergency Management Public Information Officer
> Ronnie Dooley, "nothing hit the ground so we have no way of verifying
> anything. I feel like it's probably a meteor. That is just my theory."
>
> Dooley said that the county averages about one UFO sighting a year.
>
> Grafton doesn't doubt that people are seeing things that are difficult to
> identify, but he believes there is a reasonable explanation to the
> sightings.
>
> "It is extremely unlikely that what people describe as UFOs are anything
> more than natural or man-made occurrences such as meteors, balloons or
> aircraft."
>
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