[meteorite-list] Mysterious Object Caught On Video Over Kansas City Sky

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:05 2004
Message-ID: <200401211721.JAA08967_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/2780356/detail.html

Mysterious Object Caught On Video Over Kansas City Sky
NORAD Says It Did Not Track Object
NBCSandiego.com
January 21, 2004

A security camera from a downtown energy corporation captured a bizarre
sight in the eastern sky over Kansas City last week.

The video shows an object that appears to be slowly falling in the sky
around 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 14.

Bob Lindsay, a security worker at Trigen Energy Plant, spotted the
object on security monitors and asked a co-worker to zoom in on the
mysterious image.

"It had the appearance of more of a really light yellow -- wasn't quite
white, wasn't quite yellow," Lindsay said.

Lindsay believes he saw a long vessel, like a missile or rocket aircraft
with flames shooting over the nose and up its sides. The staff at Trigen
has come up with several theories about the nature of the strange image.

"We got UFOs, we got experimental airplanes -- a jumbo jet maybe?
There's a lot of guesses going around," Lindsay said.

Kansas City TV station KMBC-TV showed the tape to astronomer Tom
Armstrong, who has worked extensively with NASA.

Armstrong guessed the object could be man-made space debris, but it's
more likely just a meteor skimming across the atmosphere.

"If you've watched a meteor shower and you put this at night against a
star background, you'd probably think meteor," Armstrong said.

He added that meteors often give off what looks like a long tale.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command, known as NORAD, said it
was not tracking any man-made space junk reentering the atmosphere on
Jan. 14.
Received on Wed 21 Jan 2004 12:21:19 PM PST