[meteorite-list] Burning Object Over Thailand May Have Been a Meteor

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Mar 14 10:30:58 2006
Message-ID: <200603130539.k2D5dOE06502_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/13Mar2006_news12.php

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT / EXPERTS BAFFLED

UFO may have been a meteor
MANIT SANABBOON
Bangkok Post
March 13, 2006

The sighting of what appeared to be an unidentified flying object (UFO)
over Ayutthaya recently has left experts scratching their heads over
exactly what it might have been.

Morakot Areeya, head of Uttaradit's astronomy learning centre and the
chairman of the People's Network for Elections (P-Net), said he saw a
burning object speeding across the sky at about 6.20pm on March 4 in
Ayutthaya's Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district. He took a photograph of the
object, which he first thought was an airplane that had burst into
flames. However, he was surprised to see the object continue to streak
across the sky in an easterly direction before disappearing from sight.
Mr Morakot said it did not appear that the object had struck the earth,
rather it had travelled almost horizontally. He said some locals felt
the object may have been some form of UFO.

"It is strange because after contacting a number of local amateur radio
hams, none had learned of any air crashes in the area," Mr Morakot said.

Worawit Thanwuttibandit, a cosmic adviser to the Thai Astronomical
Society, said the object might have been a large meteor.

Dr Sarun Posayajinda, deputy director-general of the National
Astronomical Research Institute, said it was possible that the object
was some kind of space debris which had burst into flames on entering
the earth's atmosphere.
Received on Mon 13 Mar 2006 12:39:24 AM PST