Meteor Shower Sparks Flurry of Phone Calls to Police

Tampa Bay Online and AP News ^ | 4/24/2005

[Selene]

BOSTON (AP) - A meteor shower Sunday night sparked a flurry of frantic phone calls to police departments across New England from people who saw bright lights moving in the sky, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration said.

[cherry_bomb88]

I just spit lemonade on my monitor!!!

[Marie]

Meteor fireballs can be a very alarming sight if you don't know what they are.

I saw one last summer here in Arizona. Unbelievable sight.

[Army Air Corps]

It takes a fellow Texan to appreciate that one. :-)

[rdcorso]

During the 2008 election Thereza will be telling stories about Johhny Nam having flashbacks during a meteor storm.She might say that he jumped up out of bed sweating with a broken lamp next to him and screaming please don't take my allowance away momma.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

If they came looking to create pod people, the Bostonians already beat them to it.

[Selene]

thanks for the eyewitness report!

[piasa]

I hear John Kerry's already put in for another purple heart - says he was hit in the butt by a meteor fragment.

[Army Air Corps]

I could see Hanoi Hannah crafting a message specifically For Johnny "married money" Kerry.

Hannah: "Give up, GI. While you are fighting glorious revolutionaries, men are dating heiresses. You cannot date them, GI, because you are fighting for the Yankee puppets. While you fight in Vietnam, siblings are trying to get access to your capitalist trust fund. Gome home, GI, and find a saucy heiress to marry."

[oceanperch]

About 20 yrs ago in the worst part of my Graves disease mixed with no sleep due to being with my son in a serious hosp. stay I chose to go home and get some sleep.

It was storming' and could not see through the rain and then a few transmitters blew on the side of the highway and I in my state of mine saw fireballs heading straight on towards the car. Thanks God I was not driving as I ducked under the dash board.

A surgeon told me that my illness mixed with the stress level and lack of sleep is what it is like for someone to be smoking meth or crack so maybe some of these callers were "tweaked". If true that doing drugs is like having severe Graves disease then I just can't fathom the fun in it.

I got so bad that I could not speak at times due to the high levels of thyroid pumping through my brain. Horrible illness and widely misdiagnosed as a psychiatric illness.

[oceanperch]

Shoot we missed the fun of seeing a sky show.

[taxesareforever]

All I can say is that I wish I could see a meteor shower like this. Makes me wonder why we don't hear reports like this during other meteor showers.

[Erasmus]

Dang! I just got out of the meteor shower. What'd I miss?

[Axenolith]

Yea, but it makes a great cover story for the destruction of several alien stealth penetration craft by the HAARP planetary defense array...

[Petruchio]

What is the proper soap to use during a A meteor shower?

[fivekid]

HEY!!!!!!! long time no type..LOL

Here is one...... Was training pups (as usual) but have

another shep that is staying with us. We have those 6 or

8ft. window wells.... they all 3 came a charging at me

and knocked me over into the well broke my ribs.....

I thought i was seeing a black sky with green fireballs

Been 3 wks and still hurts like ..... well you know .....

Sorry all did not mean to be off topic:)

[Salamander]

Nah...it's merely the construction workers arriving to install the new Inter-Galactic Highway.


[Don't panic!]....;)

[Strategerist]

All I can say is that I wish I could see a meteor shower like this. Makes me wonder why we don't hear reports like this during other meteor showers.

This wasn't a meteor shower; it was a lone erratic bolide. They're basically random.

[oceanperch]

Ouch. God I bet everytime the kids come a running now you get that wierd auro don't TOUCH ME PLEASE feeling.

Glad you are back on the mend.

The weather and all has allowed me to get back to off leash playing but with only one pup at a time the two together they duck out through the wild berry bushes and off for a run.

They come home withen 20min but not cool I don't want them getting into ANY trouble.

Hope the ribs heal well, not much one can do when the kids are being dogs.

[fivekid]

Not to mention my other five needy spawn....LOL!!!

And yes I cringe when they come running.

Hope all is well with you and yours:)

[oceanperch]

Their is a show coming up in 10min on the history channel called

Meteors

FYI