[meteorite-list] Manitoba Museum Flooded With Calls about Strange Object in Canadian Sky

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jun 7 22:46:02 2006
Message-ID: <200606071620.JAA13269_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://winnipegsun.com/News/Manitoba/2006/06/07/1618758-sun.html

Object in sky nets 100 calls
By ADAM CLAYTON
Winnipeg Sun (Canada)
June 7, 2006

The Manitoba Museum has been flooded with phone calls from people who
spotted a strange object in the sky.

Resident astronomer Scott Young said the museum has received at least
100 calls about an eerie green light that appeared in the sky on Friday
night. Young believes the object was either a small asteroid or a chunk
of comet that shattered into several pieces after burning up in the
Earth's atmosphere.

"The receptionist is doing nothing but answering calls and taking
numbers right now and I think I'm up to 180 e-mails," he said. "Lots of
people saw it."

Eyewitnesses from Dryden to Brandon and as far south as Duluth, Minn.,
have reported seeing the object.

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS SOUGHT

Ufology Research of Manitoba, a Winnipeg-based independent centre that
collects data on Canadian UFO reports, is assisting the museum in
gathering eyewitness accounts to determine the object's flight path.
Spokesman Chris Rutkowski said he's received more than a dozen calls so
far.

"They all report seeing a brilliant blue or green light moving through
the sky with a long tail," he said. "There may have been somebody who
captured it on a cellphone camera."

Young said the end point of the object's flight path is somewhere in
northwestern Ontario. It's not known whether any pieces reached the ground.

"The first step is to figure out the trajectory and where pieces might
come down," he said. "If it's a reasonable place to go looking, then
we'll look for pieces," he said.

People can send an e-mail to skyinfo_at_manitobamuseum.ca or call 956-2830.
Received on Wed 07 Jun 2006 12:20:06 PM PDT