[meteorite-list] Re: Burning Object Seen Over Kentucky

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:00:07 2004
Message-ID: <20020718190629.88504.qmail_at_web11602.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello Rosemary, all -

The best explanation for this phenomena which I have
heard comes from guitar goddess Cathy Horner -

It seems that the signals which broadcast all of those
old television shows are finally reaching far away
star systems. The result is that the inhabitants of
those star systems have developed a powerful craving
for popcorn to eat while watching those shows -

Now every so often they send over a ship to gather up
popcorn from fields - but seeing the ships, the locals
get curious and decide to investigate - with the
result that they get sucked up into the popcorn
gathering mechanisms -

Now as this generally makes a mess of things, the
visitors have decided that to discourage this activity
by subjecting to probes those curious earthlings who
get sucked up in their harvestors -

:p)
ep







--- Rosemary Hackney <ltcrose_at_bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 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 )
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
> To: "Meteorite Mailing List"
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:01 AM
> 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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