[meteorite-list] Satellite Reentry Witness

From: Martin Horejsi <accretiondesk_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jun 3 13:44:18 2006
Message-ID: <9c2f96d20606022046o2f468ba8l26bddd6844bf5aa4_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I too have seen a Soviet satellite (Cosmos 1457) launching-rocket burn
its way across the evening Missoula, Montana sky on April 23, 1983.

I also saw the great Teton Fireball of August 10, 1972.

Oh, and I also saw a UFO while I was at a outdoor Neil Young concert
in Aspen, Colorado a couple summers ago.

Cheers,

Martin

On 6/2/06, Larry Lebofsky <lebofsky_at_lpl.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Make that 2!
>
> Sorry for the delayed response, but weeks behind reading all of my email.
>
> Long ago, when I was a graduagte student (early 1970s), two of us were driving
> up Mt. Wilson (north of Pasadena, CA) to observe. We saw something out of the
> window and actually had time to stop. I loked like a bolide, but was moving
> relatively slowly. At first we thought it could have been a plane or something.
>
> When we got to the top of the mountain, we happened to mention it to some of
> the other astronomers up there. Ten minutes later, I was live on a local (Loos
> Angeles) radio station as an expert on things falling from the sky!
>
> I had no idea what the heck it was, but given that it was too slow for a
> bolide (I thought) I took a chance and said that maybe it was a satellite.
>
> Sure enough, the next day, the newspaper quoted me, but said that it had been
> identified by "government officials" as a Russian booster!
>
> At least I got one thing right as a graduate student.
>
> Larry
>
> Quoting Kevin Fly Hill <khill_at_cpsmedical.com>:
>
> > "How many on this list have ever seen a satellite
> > reentry? I'd be surprised if the answer is more than one."
> >
> > You might want to start with at least a startled look.
> >
> > March 25, 1988. Big'un -- Discarded Soviet cargo vessel came in over Texas
> > (on it's way to Canada). Wildest thing I've ever seen in the sky.
> > Witnessed by about two hundred people in Tyler, Texas at public gathering.
> > This thing had reports in from all over the country. It was everything that
> >
> > the Space Shuttle was except at night - A major piece with multiple chunks
> > giving off red, green and blue streaks. It moved South to North straight
> > overhead going down to the horizon. I had just turned to wave goodbye to
> > some friends as I was leaving a tour of historic homes -- The McClendon
> > Home, when I spotted the fireball. I began shouting to alert the other
> > folks and we all watched it slowly move off.
> >
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Received on Fri 02 Jun 2006 11:46:23 PM PDT