[meteorite-list] Nebraska Man Says...

From: Sterling K. Webb <kelly_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Jul 1 19:24:48 2005
Message-ID: <42C5D09E.29520350_at_bhil.com>

Everybody!

    Once again, I do mock prostration's while chanting "I'm not worthy; I'm not worthy."
    I took the Mexican village story from John C. Lewis' RAIN OF IRON AND ICE, an older book
(but excellent), which was probably the source that first put that Mexican village story
forward, where it could be investigated and discredited...
    As Johnny Carson used to say and somehow make it funny, "I did not know that." It's off
my list.
    I do recall that his citation was The New York Times from the period (1946). One tends to
trust The New York Times, or one did...
    There are commercial services that search an immense database of newspapers from many
countries stretching back a couple centuries for anything you want to pay them for.
    In the 1970's (?), Lewis paid one such service to search 100,000's of newspaper/years for
possible meteorite related key words and assembled a cluster of the top "hits."
    The Swedish man and his poor arm was extensively researched and published in Sky And
Telescope some years back.
    Charles Fort LIVED in the Periodical Room of the New York Public Library.
    Ninninger did newspaper searches, too, looking for new falls.
    Then, there's Mark!


Sterling K. Webb
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MexicoDoug_at_aol.com wrote:

> Sterling wrote:
>
> >While most incidents are of a meteorite strike to a single person,
> >there are accounts of multiple human hits. In 1949, a shower
> >in a remote Mexican village "wounded" 28 people, one of whom
> >later died. (And we on the List make a big fuss over one lousy dog...)
>
> Sterling, You can confidently remove this event from your database of
> meteorite hits. That never happened, send it to the wacko file - the
> disinformation is being propagated by popular researchers who can't read Spanish, didn't
> check sources and wanted to write shocking books that sell - and now has come
> back to haunt even the Mexican Roswell contingent, too. Your references
> didn't do their homework or just wanted badly enough to believe it. Sorry, that
> dog still burns brightly as ever...even if she never did...Saludos, Doug
Received on Fri 01 Jul 2005 07:24:14 PM PDT