[meteorite-list] Bright Light Spotted in Missouri Sky

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:00:22 -0600
Message-ID: <002a01c7494f$81fd65a0$28e38c46_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi,

    It was widely seen: Missouri, Illinois, Iowa,
and Wisconsin. No indication or mention of
direction so far.

Sterling K. Webb
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http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6037565

MILWAUKEE (AP) - From southeastern Wisconsin
to as far as Des Moines, Iowa and St. Louis, people
reported seeing balls of fire, possibly meteors, streaking
across the sky Sunday night.
    No major meteor showers were expected in the
northern hemisphere on Sunday night, said Jim Lattis,
director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
astronomy department's Space Place. But he said
it was possible that a minor shower may have been
what prompted calls to authorities.
    The National Weather Service's Sullivan office
said reports were called in from Iowa, northern
Illinois and on up to Green Bay.
    Dozens of people throughout the St. Louis region
and Illinois reported small objects that looked like
bright lights or something burning, with flaming tails
behind some of them, said Ken Tretter, with the
Missouri State Highway Patrol in St. Louis.
    In Wisconsin, a Waukesha County dispatch
supervisor said two callers reported a sighting
around 8:15 p.m.
    The Winnebago County Sheriff's Department
said it received calls from Oshkosh, Ripon, Appleton,
Neenah, and Pulaski, among others.
    A preliminary report Sunday indicated that the
lights were from a meteor, said Maj. April Cunningham,
a spokeswoman for North American Aerospace
Defense Command, or NORAD, which watches
for airborne threats to the United States and Canada.
    "We had a pilot reporting seeing a meteor and
that's really all the information we have tonight,"
Cunningham said.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:19 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Bright Light Spotted in Missouri Sky

http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=2275136&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

Bright Light Spotted in the Sky
MyFox (St. Louis, Missouri)
February 4, 2007

We've had several reports Sunday night of a big ball of green
light that was seen in the sky heading towards the north.

Several area police agencies also received calls from people 9
who saw the strange light.

It was seen just before 8 pm local time.

The Missouri Highway Patrol reported sightings from as far
south as Cape Girardeau, and as far west as Jefferson City.

The St. Francois County Sheriff's Departments tells FOX 2 News
that have a report indicating the light is being investigated
by FEMA, NORAD, and the FAA, and it might have been either a
meteorite shower or space debris burning in the atmosphere.
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