[meteorite-list] Meteor Spotted Over Utah

From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:31 2004
Message-ID: <008601c3946d$51bc58f0$0200a8c0_at_S0031628003>

Good god, this has got to be the busiest fall month on record! Where are we,
7 or 8 massive fireballs in the last month, 2 recovered falls so far.
Mike Farmer
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From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteor Spotted Over Utah


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http://www.4utah.com/local_news/local_headlines/story.aspx?content_id=8005564E-D251-4525-B2C7-0C8AEE9B923F
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> Meteorite Spotted Over Salt Lake Valley
> ABC 4 News
> October 16, 2003
>
> If you think you saw a UFO over the Salt Lake valley
> Thursday morning, you may not have been too far off.
>
> NORAD is saying they think the unidentified object
> was a meteor but they have yet to confirm their
> findings.
>
> ABC 4's Andrew Stack has been close on the tail of
> this meteor all day and has more.
>
> Thursday morning, a soldier on the firing range at
> Camp Williams looked up to see a blinding flash, and
> then a long con trail. It was a tail many others would
> see over the next few minutes.
>
> "All of a sudden, my eyes saw something fantastic,"
> describes one.
>
> "NORAD right now is researching all their records,"
> explains another.
>
> Around 10:30 Thursday morning, some caught a
> glimpse of a bright, white light.
>
> "I thought, you know, I'm sitting out here taking UFO
> pictures," says Brad Gygi, an eyewitness.
>
> "At the present time, they figure this is the high time of
> the season for meteor showers and that's what one of
> the suggestions has been, but right now, it is
> undetermined to exactly what it is," says one.
>
> First it flew over Camp Williams.
>
> "...saw an airplane going over and then he saw a white
> trail that appeared to be coming from the south about
> two o'clock and heading to the north at about eight
> o'clock," describes LTC Rick West, Camp Williams
> Training Site.
>
> Then it was seen over downtown Salt Lake.
>
> "It looked like it was heading for downtown Bountiful,"
> says Richard Law, another eyewitness.
>
> But it never made it that far.
>
> "Naturally, with the war going on, I thought, 'oh, oh,
> what do we got here?' And then I recognized it
> immediately as a comet or a meteor because of its
> shape and the way it was going and then when it
> exploded and just disappeared, I figured it just burned
> out in the atmoshpere."
>
> "I was lucky to get a couple that did turn out," says
> Gygi, of his pictures.
>
> Brad Gygi was on his way to work and was lucky
> enough to snap a few photos before 'it' exploded.
>
> "It looked really big, a lot bigger than when you see a
> plane flying across or something and it was pretty
> bright and it looked like a pretty long tail," says Gygi.
>
> "I just feel like anybody who didn't see it, missed out.
> It was beautiful. It was just wonderful to see it."
>
> The soldier who first saw this meteor reported it
> through his chain of command because he feared the
> meteor might hit one of the commuter flights preparing
> to land at Salt Lake International.
>
> As it turns out, air traffic controllers at Salt Lake
> International took immediate action to ensure safety
> as soon as they heard about this explosion in the sky.
>
> They changed incoming landing approaches for a
> couple of flights to avoid the area.
>
> There were no close calls, all planes landed safely and
> everything shortly returned to normal.
>
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