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

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:34:58 -0500
Message-ID: <87C6095FF2BC49BA8ECAD576EB100101_at_ATARIENGINE2>

http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Aspiring+Calgary+filmmaker+created+satellite+hoax/5456974/story.html

Sterllng K. Webb
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> 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?
>
>
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