Posted on 01/26/2007 5:18:49 PM PST by BenLurkin
"Wierd fiery lights in the sky were reported in North and South Carolina."
Video report at link: http://cbs2.com/video/?cid=71
Sounds like "space junk" to me.
Will Smith from Independence Day: "I HAVE GOT TO GET ME ONE OF THESE!!"
One that flies - yes indeed!
Maybe the Chinese are shooting stuff in space again?
911 callers report lights in sky
Unknown Freaky Orb drew eyes, imaginations across area
MARK WASHBURN
mwashburn@charlotteobserver.com
About 8 p.m. Wednesday, something peculiar flashed in the sky -- something twinkly, something colorful, something eye-catching.
Something strange. And blue. Or green. Or blue-green.
"Bright blue-green ball with a white tail," says Jim Neal of Shelby, who spotted it just west of Blacksburg, S.C., after dinner at Kelly's Steak House.
"A greenish-like light low in the sky," says Julie Bigham, driving home from church with her kids near Matthews. "We thought a small plane or helicopter was going to crash."
"A slow-moving bluish glow," says David Whitesides who works in Polkton and who watched it while soaking in his hot tub.
"Large, bright green ball," says Brett Lay, who was headed to Chick-fil-A in Gastonia with his wife and four children after church. "Had a haze about it."
"Almost looked like a flare," reports Amy Bromberg, who was on Interstate 485. "Kind of creepy."
Venus, perhaps? It's often a suspect in UFO sightings, particularly when it's as bright as it is right now.
Not Venus. It vanished beneath the horizon about 7 p.m.
Stricken plane?
Nope. All aircraft accounted for.
Space junk? Errant satellite?
Negative, says NORAD. No re-entries of the sizable man-made objects they track.
OK. So ... alien object?
Bingo. But not the E.T. variety.
"A fireball," says Daniel Caton, observatory director and astronomy professor at Appalachian State University in Boone.
Based on the reports, Caton believes it was an unusually bright meteor that burned up about 30 miles high in the atmosphere somewhere above Charlotte. Sightings came from more than 100 miles away.
Many witnesses say the light appeared to fizzle at the end and break into pieces, making it a special kind of fireball called a bolide. In the universe of meteors, they're A-List entertainers, known for their splashy finales.
Each day, an estimated 4 billion meteors burn up in Earth's atmosphere. Most are the size of sand grains, but rocks tumble in, too. NASA estimates that the Earth packs on several tons a day in meteors.
Some witnesses who contacted the Observer on Thursday wondered whether it could be debris from the recent anti-satellite test by China.
Probably not -- but maybe, says Michael Kucharek, spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command near Colorado Springs, Colo., which tracks satellites and space junk -- everything from lost screwdrivers to astronaut gloves. He says he's been getting an unusually high number of calls this week about things spotted in the sky.
China's satellite-zapping exercise has probably increased space litter by about a million pieces, making it nearly as untidy as Interstate 77 in Charlotte.
"It's anybody's guess," Kucharek says, "what direction this stuff has gone."
PHOTO BY CHARLES MILLER; cropped and lightened by Charlotte.com for clarity" His account: Last night just after 8:30, I was in the backyard smoking a cig and saw a light coming in toward Kings Mountain from the south-southeast. ... I went in the house and got my camera and came back out in the front yard to shoot it."
Thanks.
Sounds pretty reasonable, to me.
Did we ping the list yet?
DID ANYONE ELSE CATCH C2C LAST NIGHT?
Here's the earthfiles link:
http://www.earthfiles.com/
C2C had Linda Moulton Howe on for 2 hours last night.
I think it was with a ND farmer family . . . one of whom shot one of several ET's who'd killed a big sow and were dragging it somehwere. An ET grabbed the son from behind who'd shot one of them and the son's T-shirt was clawed seriously as the photo shows. Didn't break his skin that much.
I didn't listen all that closely being sleepy. But in one incident some or all the ET's in a situation bowed or kneeled toward the family member.
Linda reported one other report--I think of someone being on a craft where the ET's bowed or kneeled to them.
Was quite an extensive report on the family's extensive experiences--some as recently as Dec and another nearby family's experiences this January.
There was also a mutilated cow and I think the neighbor had a prized sire ram killed and mutilated. And the preditors wouldn't touch the carcasses at all--even many months afterwards. A carass on the first family's farm not that far from the mutilated cow was devoured almost totally by preditors within 72 hours or so.
ping
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater.
Some excerpts:
There have been many unusual animal deaths and disappearances in the region. Not far to the northeast is the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge where 29,000 American White Pelicans disappeared from the refuge in May 2004. The next spring in 2005, about 18,000 adult pelicans returned, but eight thousand White Pelican baby chicks mysteriously died - perhaps from West Nile virus. Further south of Chase Lake is the Roestler Lake Waterfowl Protection Area. For six straight years between 1999 to 2004, thousands of ring-billed gulls and double-crested cormorants died - challenging the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to understand why the die-offs should be so persistent year after year.
Farmers in Tappen, with a current population of about 200 people, have also been challenged by mysterious deaths and disappearances of livestock. One of those families is Myra and Torrey Briese, both in their late forties, who have lived in Tappen all their life. Their five children are Tessa 23, Trista 20, Evan 16, Tia 11 and Marshel 3.
The Briese farm has 1200 acres and 100 head of cattle, the family's main source of income. For fun, 16-year-old Evan Briese and his 11-year-old sister, Tia, have raised six hogs in a corral not far from the house.
Evan Briese, 16, standing next to two pet hogs in the corral about 250 feet north of Briese home behind trees. Image © 2006 by Richard Moss and Lorna Hunter.
A half mile beyond the pig corral, Torrey Briese found one of his cattle dead in October 2005, just over a small embankment at the edge of a dug out water pond.
Torrey Briese, Cattle Rancher, Tappen, North Dakota: "The predators never ate on her. That is something I just don’t understand. In fact, I can tell you that up the gully from where that dead cow was (in October 2005), I had lost a big sucking calf - about a 900-pounder. I had some feed out there and one over-ate and bloated. And the coyotes devoured that thing in about five days. It was gone - just a little bit of hide and a couple of bones. That's it. So, that's the contrast. These two critters were that close together. That cow was never bothered. But this other calf was eaten within the matter of a few days. "
. . .
But what happened before the family found the odd pattern and triangular punctures on the long-dead cow is what 16-year-old Evan Briese saw near the water pond at 12:30 a.m. on April 6, 2006. Evan had left the farm house around midnight to go check the cows that were ready to calve. With him was his cattle dog, Buster. The cows seemed fine and Evan and Buster were heading back to the farm house when Evan saw a light flash that seemed to curve over a hill to the east of them. He started walking toward the pond and said he could see blue beams flashing repeatedly.
The UFO looked triangular-shaped to me and had like oval-shaped lights on it that were real pale blue – with beams shining out. They were real big from what I could see and it looked like they (blue beams) could bend over hills. When they would shine over them embankments down there, it looked like they could bend right over them.
IT WAS AS IF THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING?
Yeah.
HOW BIG DO YOU THINK THIS TRIANGLE WAS?
About 40 feet long, I suppose. . . .
HOW HIGH WOULD IT BE FROM THE GROUND UP?
Probably 6 or 7 feet.
[The rest of that interview dialogue is at Linda's site in the free section]
. . .
August 2006 - Strange Lights Move in Grid Pattern Over Farm
Then in August about 2.5 miles northeast of the farm house, Torrey was moving cattle out of his bull pasture. Myra and the kids were about a mile away. Torrey was on his motorcycle that had a broken headlight. So, there was no light on the ground. But suddenly in the sky, lights appeared that moved around in odd searching patterns for at least an hour.
. . .
Naw.
Most of those are Dracos and live underground.
Most interesting site. Thanks for the link.
Thanks for your kind reply.
Linda is the real deal. Have talked with her for significant periods of time in person.
The website and her books etc. are the only way she makes a living. She started in documentary film. And has been harrassed so extensively by the big boys and has been so busy researching stories folks bring to her, that she's had to pull back from her film production stuff and concentrated on the "high strangeness" stories and post such on her website etc.
I encourage folks to read that whole link. It's quite a story.
Interesting that there are in fact cell phone images of the O'Hare object.
I heard the show and that two hours. Interesting story. Would like to check out more on it. I will visit earthfiles later to follow up.
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