[meteorite-list] UARS -- Alberta or Pacific fall?

From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:43:30 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <8CE4A265AD9E287-1AD8-FC5EC_at_webmail-m134.sysops.aol.com>

Listees, with kindest wishes, Doug:

One more comment on Okotoks, Alberta, Canada for those of you who who
can find a lighter side of this:

The tweet that started making the rounds claiming debris was found in
Okotoks, supposedly a local reporter accompanied by a professor:

Here is the text of the Friday night tweets that started the hoax,
originally by "imnotgonnalie2u":

"Reporter Carl Phillips on the scene near Okotoks, AB, #UARS debris
found at the Wilmuth Farm.
24 Sep
Carl Phillips Reporting - Professor Pierson and myself made the eleven
miles from Calgary in ten minutes. #UARS #okotoks
24 Sep
Carl Phillips, reporter on scene, "half buried in a vast pit. Must have
struck with terrific force." #UARS #okotoks
24 Sep
Carl Phillips reporting, "The ground is covered with splinters of a
tree it must have struck on its way down." #UARS #Okotoks
24 Sep"

And, here are excerps from the "War of the Worlds" radio story when the
Martians invaded, from 1938:

ANNOUNCER TWO: We are now ready to take you to the Princeton
Observatory at Princeton where Carl Phillips, our commentator, will
interview Professor Richard Pierson, famous astronomer. We take you now
to Princeton, New Jersey.

(CROWD NOISES . . . POLICE SIRENS)

PHILLIPS: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Carl Phillips again, at the
Wilmuth farm, Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Professor Pierson and myself
made the eleven miles from Princeton in ten minutes. Well, I . . . I
hardly know where to begin, to paint for you a word picture of the
strange scene before my eyes, like something out of a modern "Arabian
Nights." Well, I just got here. I haven't had a chance to look around
yet. I guess that's it. Yes, I guess that's the . . . thing, directly
in front of me, half buried in a vast pit. Must have struck with
terrific force. The ground is covered with splinters of a tree it must
have struck on its way down. What I can see of the . . . object itself
doesn't look very much like a meteor, at least not the meteors I've
seen. It looks more like a huge cylinder. It has a diameter of . . .
what would you say, Professor Pierson?
Received on Mon 26 Sep 2011 01:43:30 AM PDT