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To: Happy2BMe; Ludicrous
Fireball Near Grover´s Mill, N.J.

Startled New Jersey residents tied-up the phone lines late this evening calling authorities to report a large orange fireball that passed over the town and apparently hit the ground several miles west of Grover´s MIll. . . . .

"I thought a jet was coming down right in the street," said Betty Ocker, a housewife in Grover´s Mill, "it was loud, and I mean really loud."

Police have asked residents to clear up the telephone lines and use them only for emergency purposes until things get worked out, said a town spokesperson. Apparently the local districts received so many calls after the meteor passed overhead that the lines jammed and they have been unable to handle normal calls for police assistance.

Local fire teams were dispatched to the woods west of town to make sure that no fires were started by the space rock, but none of them have reported finding anything as yet.

Grover´s Mill? LOL. You gotta be kidding. Grover´s Mill was the site radomly chosen for the first Martian landings by the 1938 Orson Welles broadcast of "War of the Worlds."

150 posted on 06/03/2004 3:03:14 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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Ping to myself for light reading later tonight.


151 posted on 06/03/2004 3:44:48 PM PDT by Judith Anne (HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO CLEAN UP ALL THIS MESS?)
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