Posted on 06/03/2004 2:20:33 PM PDT by Truth666
Rattled outdoor furniture, frightened cats. We heard reports from several readers about the mysterious booms and flashes of light early this morning over Puget Sound:
"I was watching late night TV when at exactly 2:42 p.m. I saw the sky light up like a nuclear bomb had exploded. The entire sky and my whole yard glowed a luminous red color. I went outside to investigate and could hear a loud rumbling noise."
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Ping!
I thought it might be the first sign of an earthquake, and I waited for the shaking to begin, but nothing else happened. (I didn't wake up quickly enough to see the light.)
Hey Seattle wake up. Don't you know that George Bush has been dropping atomic bombs on all areas of the country and Europe that don't agree with him? You really better tune into Air America to hear what's really going on out there.
Anything you are aware of, bro?
Never saw the light. In my sleep I thought the neighbor was out shooting late at night, or found some coyote bugging his animals.
Interesting. I will have to email my friends that live on Bainbridge to see if they saw/heard anything.
Must have been that Meteor Crash AP says didn't happen.
Bright flashes and sharp booms were reported in the skies over the Puget Sound area early Thursday, and aviation officials said a meteor may have been the source.
Nothing unusual was detected on National Weather Service radar, and authorities also ruled out aircraft problems or military flight tests.
Toby Smith, a University of Washington astronomy lecturer who specializes in meteorites, told The Associated Press that scientists were looking into the cause of the skybursts reported over a wide area about 2:40 a.m.
Witnesses along a 60-mile swath of the sound from near Tacoma to Whidbey Island and as far as 260 miles to the east said the sky lit up brilliantly, and many reported booming sounds as if from one or more explosions.
Weather service officials at Sand Point in north Seattle said there was no storm or other meteorological activity that could have produced the skybursts.
Jay Neher, a weather service meteorologist, said the agency's radar on Whidbey Island showed nothing unusual but added that the dish could have been pointed at another part of the sky at the time and could not detect objects above about 20,000 feet.
Duty officers at the Federal Aviation Administration and the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station said they knew of no civilian or military airplane problems.
Civilian pilots reported seeing the flash from Ellensburg, east of the Cascade Range, said an FAA duty officer who did not give her name. She also said one or more meteorites - meteors that hit the Earth - could be responsible.
At Whidbey Island, Petty Officer Andrew Davis said he and others on the base about 40 miles north of Seattle saw the skyburst.
"It made a pretty big bang," Davis said. "We thought it could maybe be a meteorite or something."
In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, about 260 miles to the east, Dick Haugen said he was driving to work at KVMI Radio when he saw a flash that he took to be lightning about 2:40 a.m. - then learned there were no lightning storms anywhere in the region.
Ralph Gaume, head of astronometry at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., said he knew of no likely source from outer space, such as a passing comet or meteor cluster or shower, but added that meteors commonly appear at random. Another possibility, he said, would be "space junk" such as spent rocket engines or satellites falling from Earth orbit.
Hmmmph.
Hope it didn't blush their pricey Bainbridge wine.
Question: Has Mr. Shanks ever actually seen an aerial detonation of an atomic bomb against which he can make such a comparison?
Well no reason to worry - it was just a computer monitor kind of thing.
Meteor flashes across Northwest sky
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/06/03/meteorite.washington.ap/index.html
I slept right through it. That wouldn't surprise anyone who knows me, of course. I sleep though anything.
Lord please don't let this person vote!
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