[meteorite-list] And now for something completely different...

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:04:47 2004
Message-ID: <20020508174233.5744.qmail_at_web10408.mail.yahoo.com>

OT: Bolides - Australia - SoCal - MUFON - and unknown
Seismic Research Laboratory located in Hesperia, CA
USA
??

Seeking reports from any sober observers.
;-)
Bob V.

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Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 11:08:28 -0400
From: Lew Gramer <dedalus_at_latrade.com>
Subject: (meteorobs) [EAMN] Daytime Green Fireball [05
Apr 2002, Coffs Harbour, Australia]

Repost from the East Australian Meteor Network:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EAMN

Not sure about the UFOs and delta-wings, but are there
any confirming reports of daytime fireballs from that
region of Australia that day?

Clear skies,
Lew

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   From: "mikeandmarjo" <mikeandmarjo_at_yahoo.com.au>
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   Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 12:42:23 -0000
   From: "mikeandmarjo" <mikeandmarjo_at_yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Daytime Green Fireball

On the 5th of April at 3PM I observed a medium fast
green fireball with wake in the eastern sky. I
happened to be looking at that part of the sky as it
became visible. It was at least as bright as the full
moon, probably brighter. Half of its flight was
visible behind high cloud. It was from behind this
high cloud that it appeared distinctly green.

My girlfriend and I were atop a 1300 metre high
mountain 70km west of Coffs Harbour at the time,
waiting for the sun to set. The nova V838 MON was to
be the binocular-observation target.

Between 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM we both observed a series
of seemingly unrelated but equally unusual phenomena.
One symmetrical and two asymmetrical halos passing
overhead from west to east (looked very high up, the
ionosphere?) encompassing 1/3rd of the entire sky. A
UFO doing "loop the loops" that subsequently vanished.
And if that wasn't enough .... a very large delta wing
aircraft(Concord?) without proper navigation lights
flew almost straight overhead.

Needless to say by this time we had forgotten about
V838 MON. We both skulked into the car and went to
sleep, not wanting to see anything more.

Cheers, Mike.

BTW, this is a very good halo site:
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/unusual.htm

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Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 13:15:10 EDT
From: LOOKIN4ET_at_aol.com
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) [EAMN] Daytime Green Fireball
[05 Apr 2002, Coffs Harbour, Au...

Hello All,

I don't know if this is a match, but I was going to
ask the [Meteorobs] List if anyone recorded anything
ususual via visual, photographic, or radio signals
for this same day. I received a report (below) from
an associate who has a Seismic Research Laboratory
located in Hesperia, CA, USA [34:25:09N 117:18:09W].
He has picked up bolide signatures in the past, and
asked if I could check on this for him. Does anyone
have more info on if a bolide or reentry had been
logged for the time frame below? This would have been
a daytime
sighting here in So. Cal. Any possibility this could
be somehow connected with the unusual sighting event
in Australia?

Begin quote:
>> While on the subject of bolides, I picked up a very
unusual signal Sunday afternoon (5/5/02) at 22:54:35
UTC that smacks of meteor entry with at least four
electromagnetic shock waves (skips?) and then nothing
at 22:56:28 UTC until 22:57:04 UTC when it starts back
up with an entry burn signature beginning at 22:57:05
UTC which lasted for about 30 seconds. The breakup
looks almost the same as the signature that was
captured for the Whitehorse Yukon bolide except it
appears much larger or closer. Since it was daylight
here, maybe it was dark enough to the east to have
been observed or tracked visually as it entered the
atmosphere. <<

Any help will be much appreciated!

Thank you!

Cinde Costello
MUFON-San Bernardino County
Southern California


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