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Flaming object seen over Minn. sky may have been meteor
KSTP.com ^ | 10/03/07 | KSTP.com/AP

Posted on 10/03/2007 6:48:28 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

A flaming object over Minnesota skies this afternoon may have been a meteor.

Shortly after 2 p.m., people across the Twin Cities reported seeing a "metallic" object or "flaming ball" falling from the sky.

Broadcasters and emergency dispatchers got hundreds of calls from people who saw the object traveling from the northeast to the southwest.

The FAA received no reports of anything falling from any airplanes in the area, leading to speculation that it was a meteor that burned up in the atmosphere, since no crash site has been identified.

Residents of Lyon County in far southwestern Minnesota reported a loud boom that might have been connected with the sightings in the Twin Cities.

Navy reservist Greg Devereaux, who lives near the town of Amiret, says it shook his house and sounded like a sonic boom from an F-14 breaking the sound barrier at close range.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Local News; Science
KEYWORDS: meteor
Listening to a local talker on the way home, this afternoon. Calls were coming in from all over the state as well as South Dakota. Lots of people saw this.
1 posted on 10/03/2007 6:48:33 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

beebers in stune position.


2 posted on 10/03/2007 6:52:38 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (life is like "a bad Saturday Night Live skit that is done in extremely bad taste.")
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I just hope his big brother didn’t come with him.


3 posted on 10/03/2007 6:53:36 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Darn, I missed it!

No mention of it on the 5 or 6 news.


4 posted on 10/03/2007 6:55:55 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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One guy called in on KSTP, said he lived in SW Minn. Something went bang not too far from his position and he was reporting that there was a major fire in a farm field with lots of firefighters headed that way.

Area 52??

;-)


5 posted on 10/03/2007 6:59:08 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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...leading to speculation that it was a meteor that burned up in the atmosphere...

Believe what you will, but I'm pretty sure it was this guy.

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6 posted on 10/03/2007 6:59:12 PM PDT by txroadkill ( http://iraqstar.org)
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Flaming object seen over Minn. sky may have been meteor

Flaming? Are they sure it's not just Al Franken's boyfriend taking off?

7 posted on 10/03/2007 7:04:02 PM PDT by jdm
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Wow, you’d think someone would have pics of that fire...or would at least write about it in the local town paper.


8 posted on 10/03/2007 7:04:49 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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I’m sure all of the locals met with MIB’s with flashy-things.


9 posted on 10/03/2007 7:06:38 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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This is HUGH.


10 posted on 10/03/2007 8:00:47 PM PDT by SIDENET (I don't want to find "common ground" with a bunch of damn leftists.)
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It was Al Franken’s career.


11 posted on 10/03/2007 8:04:34 PM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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it's a bird! It's a a plane! No! It's.....SuperBetch


12 posted on 10/03/2007 11:47:55 PM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been Cowboys)
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13 posted on 10/04/2007 3:20:56 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (There are NO gays in Iran)
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Edwards and Kerry?


14 posted on 10/04/2007 6:17:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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The Flying Faggots


15 posted on 10/04/2007 8:04:53 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Socialism, thy name is Woman)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

16 posted on 10/04/2007 1:49:59 PM PDT by mowowie
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Flaming object seen over Minn. sky

Larry Craig flying back to Idaho again?

17 posted on 10/04/2007 1:51:54 PM PDT by r9etb
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