Posted on 11/26/2019 9:18:57 AM PST by BenLurkin
"The road, trees, houses and even ourselves were bathed in a blinding phosphorescent-like glow which had its center in a bright streak in the sky above us," highway construction superintendent Leroy Milhan of Centerville, Michigan, would recall in a paper published the following year. "It passed over us toward the west.
Immediately came a muffled report or jar that shook houses and the very earth like an earthquake." The following day, the Washington Times reported that "telegraph and telephone communications and electric lighting plants in several cities in southern Michigan and northern Indiana are out of commission" as a result of "a remarkable phenomenon believed by several scientists to have been a gigantic meteor."
The fireball was often described as blue, turning to a mix of blue, red, green, white and yellow as it fragmented and the chunks raced toward the surface.
Property damage was reported in the communities of Battle Creek, Three Oaks and Athens, where "it is said, there was an earthquake, continuing for fully three minutes, accompanied by a heavy rain and wind storm, a loud clap of thunder and a flash of light in the sky of longer duration than lightning," according to the newspaper.
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Boy i remember that day.
I would’t recommend it.
WKRP...The Early Years
gnip
Sonic boom...a phenomenon unknown at that time?
...And THAT, Boys and Girls, is why you NEVER put silverware in your Mom’s microwave, then turn it on!
What?......Oh.....Never mind I was just joking!”
My man... lol
Brian Williams was terrified at the time!.................
Yes, and the impact...................
As God is my witness, I thought meteors could fly.
“telegraph and telephone communications and electric lighting plants in several cities in southern Michigan and northern Indiana are out of commission”
FR was down for 78 years.
LOL
It doesn’t look like any fragments were ever recovered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite_fall
Winner
I’m not saying it was aliens but......
My dad’s aunt wrote a really neat story about seeing that meteor. From her perspective it was both amazing and very scary. Someone in the family was kind enough to make many copies for the family and I ended up with one of them.
[[Gigantic meteor shook Earth on Thanksgiving eve, 100 years ago]]
Unpossible, i don’t remember it!
It was all those turkeys falling out of the sky.
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