[meteorite-list] Mysterious Flash Of Light Reported in Detroit Sky

From: GERALD FLAHERTY <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Oct 3 08:47:47 2004
Message-ID: <003a01c4a946$f94881e0$6501a8c0_at_dawnjerry>

Ron,
Gee! We've got to get the word out! The public has to be apprised of the
potential such phenomenon imply.
Of course, as a former elementary school teacher, I certainly dropped the
ball for 31 years.
Who would have known???!!!
It's a definite curriculum add on national and world wide!!
Jerry Flaherty

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 1:52 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Mysterious Flash Of Light Reported in Detroit Sky


>
>
> http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/3774616/detail.html
>
> Drivers Report Mysterious Flash Of Light In Sky
> Radio Show Host Receives Dozens Of Calls
>
> Click On Detroit
> September 30, 2004
>
> A local radio station's phone lines lit up Thursday morning
> after motorists reported seeing a mysterious flash of light
> in the sky, Local 4 reported.
>
> Several drivers in the area of Interstate 275 and Interstate 94
> called into WOMC radio at about 5:45 a.m. to report an
> unidentified light flashing in the sky.
>
> "It was a bright flash, almost like a huge flashlight, almost
> like a generator going off," said one caller.
>
> The host of the radio station's morning show, Dick Purtan, said
> he had no answer to what people had witnessed in the sky.
>
> "The first thing that I thought of was that this was possibly
> the asteroid, this big rock that's about 3 miles long and a
> mile-and-a-half wide that actually came within a million miles
> of earth this morning, but the trouble is they say that it's
> not visible," Purtan said.
>
> Officials at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base reported no
> flying this morning, so there were no records or photographs
> taken that may have identified the flash of light.
>
> Metro airport also had no trace of the light flash because the
> airport's radar readings only cover a 40-mile radius, Local 4
> reported.
>
> The National Weather Service in Cleveland told Local 4 that the
> mysterious light may have been moonbeams poking through the clouds.
>
> Local 4 attempted to contact the North American Aerospace Defense
> Command, which protects the airspace over the United States and
> Canada. NORAD had yet to return calls concerning the mysterious
> light.
>
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