[meteorite-list] Strange Object Over Waterloo Region Canada

From: tett <tett_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:51:46 -0400
Message-ID: <016201c76512$29319340$0401a8c0_at_tett>

List and Roman in particular,

Our own Roman Jirasek lives just a few miles from Guelph.

Roman, have you driven out there yet? Let me know if there are any little
green meteorites to be picked up.

Mike Tettenborn


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Subject: [meteorite-list] Strange Object Over Waterloo Region Canada


And another colorful story rolls in (don't think the picture is of the
event, but who knows nowadays:)

Strange Object Over Waterloo Region Canada
by Greg Mercer

Was it a planet? A plane? A meteorite? Little green men? Whatever it was,
residents across Waterloo Region saw something unusual in the night?s sky
yesterday. Around 8 p.m., the calls started coming into police stations,
describing a fiery display streaking across the horizon.

Some, worried they were witnessing a falling airplane, phoned authorities,
who set off on a search and rescue that turned up nothing. Local airports
reported no downed planes last night.

In the span of a few minutes, multiple calls came in from St. Clements to
Cambridge, said Sgt. Sharon Havill of the Waterloo regional police.

?We did some searching around,? she said. ?We don?t have an answer for sure
as to what they were. There were definitely multiple callers, saying they
saw a flash in the sky. They weren?t sure whether it was a helicopter or
whether it crashed.?

At one point, the calls had some police officers joking about searching for
?little green men.?

Police in Guelph had calls about the sightings, too. They promptly phoned
the OPP to go check it out, said Sgt. Neal Young.

?It was on the west side of town, something like flames falling from the
sky.?

Marie Keyes was driving home along Weber Street with her husband when she
saw what she initially thought was a shooting star or fireworks. When she
looked closer, she saw an object with a trail of sparks arching toward the
ground.

?I screamed ?look at that!?? she said. ?It was amazing. It was such a shock
when it came into view in my windshield. It kind of like dropped.

?It was too low to the horizon, and too large, to be a shooting star. I saw
a blue flame coming out the end, and it had a tail, with sparks. It was
moving very fast, it was a huge ball. And then it just sort of burned out.?

About 15 minutes earlier, in the parking lot of a Victoria Street
restaurant, Keyes and her husband saw bright moving lights that passed
overhead.

These rectangular-shaped objects moved ?unusually? and didn?t look like ?a
typical airplane,? she said.

Darryl Archer, an amateur astronomer and a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo
Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, said he didn?t see
anything unusual from his observatory last night.

But on such clear winter nights, it?s not uncommon for people to mistake the
planet Venus for something far more exciting, he said.

?It?s the brightest object in the sky next to the sun and moon, so some
people mistake it for a UFO,? he said from his home in Baden.

He said no meteorite showers were expected last night. [link]


Gonzo on 12 Mar 2007 |

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