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Reports: 'Fireball' Crashes into Water Off New Jersey
1010 WINS ^
| September 2, 2007
| 1010 WINS
Posted on 09/02/2007 7:41:36 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
TOMS RIVER (1010 WINS) -- A fiery streak across the sky got the attention of the Coast Guard Saturday night, after the reported fireball crashed into the waters off the Jersey Shore.
Concerned calls started coming in from South Carolina to Long Island about 9 p.m.
Coast Guard boats were searching near the site of the reported impact, off Normandy Beach in Toms River, about 10 miles off shore. No debris has been found in the water.
The Toms River Fire Department says it also got some calls and there were at least 20 people on the beach with the same story.
The FAA has not reported any missing planes and they doubt it was part of an aircraft. Even NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) chimed in, saying it probably wasn't space junk.
A Coast Guard spokesman suggested the sightings could be the result of the Aurigid meteor shower.
Astronomers had predicted a possible light show over the western parts of North America Saturday.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; coastguard; meteor; meteorite; norad; space; uscg
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To: neverendinghunt
we dont see fireballs daily. Perhaps. OTOH others do. They are detected every day by other means than your eyes. What is unusual is that this one was seen by several people who have no way to describe what they saw.
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posted on
09/02/2007 8:42:54 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: LurkedLongEnough
Concerned calls started coming in from South Carolina to Long Island about 9 p.m. SOUTH CAROLINA? They could see something land in the water in NJ from SC??
If they could see it in SC, I'm guessing meteor. Or then again, maybe it's a typo.
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posted on
09/02/2007 8:47:39 AM PDT
by
Amelia
To: LurkedLongEnough
43
posted on
09/02/2007 8:49:31 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Westlander
Because they're cousins, identical cousins~~~~
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posted on
09/02/2007 8:54:07 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Did you know that everyday mexican gays sneak into this country and unplug our brain dead ladies HJS)
To: dragonblustar
OH MY GAWD, MY EYES, MY EYES!
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posted on
09/02/2007 8:58:51 AM PDT
by
missnry
(The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
To: neverendinghunt
Call me an alarmist
OK! You are an alarmist. :),
this is almost weird. we dont see fireballs daily.
Actually it is rather common.
Meteor showers occur all throughout the year but only some of them are strong enough for us to take notice like the Leonids that occur every November and the Perseids that occur every August.
Meteors or shooting stars burn up in our atmosphere. Very large and bright meteors are called Fire Balls. Sometimes they are so bright they can be seen in daylight. Ive seen many shooting stars but only one fire ball.
Fire Balls may also be a Meteorite that makes Earth impact and while rarer, hundreds of meteorites hit Earth every year. Many of them land in the ocean or in remote areas or by the time they hit, they are so small (smaller than a baseball) and dont make a large crater and so they often cant be found.
Ive been fascinated by meteors and meteorites ever since I had a close encounter with one. I was about 7 years old and was playing with a friend in my back yard one summer evening. We were playing something and pretending we were Cat Women from Outer Space. My mother was sitting on the back porch keeping an eye on us when all of a sudden the whole ground lit up like it was daytime and as we looked up we all saw this object fly directly overhead. It was a fire ball with a long tail. I remember distinctly that it had a bluish-greenish glow about it and the tail looked like hundreds of sparklers and it was close enough to us that we all heard it; it made a whistling- whooshing sound sort of like a big bottle rocket.
Needless to say my friend and I were terrified and ran to my mother who was a bit shaken her self.
Just as she was taking us back to the house, my big brother was coming out to see what happened. He had seen the light from inside the house and was listening to a baseball game on the radio when the local news broke in about reports of a mysterious object in the sky, a UFO, a Soviet rocket, etc. This was the late sixties and the height of both the cold war and the Apollo missions to the Moon.
As it turned out it wasnt little green men or those nasty Ruskies, but a meteorite that disappeared into a high hill top called Peters Mountain.
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posted on
09/02/2007 9:15:46 AM PDT
by
Caramelgal
(Rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words or superficial interpretations)
To: EGPWS
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posted on
09/02/2007 9:24:57 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Caramelgal
OK! You are an alarmist. :),... No wonder I don't partake in the pleasures of sugar much anymore to please my palate.
FR gives me an overdose of sugar coating. LOL!
Pragmatic and to the point Caramelgal!
I like that. : D
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posted on
09/02/2007 9:41:17 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Dont run we are your freinds AFLACK!!! LOL!
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posted on
09/02/2007 9:42:28 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: missnry
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posted on
09/02/2007 9:44:19 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: humblegunner
I'll call you semi-literate. Now that wasn't very nice humblegunner.
Accurate, but not very nice. /snicker
Good morning my FRiend.
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posted on
09/02/2007 9:44:52 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: EGPWS
Good morning my FRiend. Good morning right back atcha!
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posted on
09/02/2007 9:50:32 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Me wise magic)
To: Caramelgal
Would you be willing to expound a bit on the subject of “Cat Women from Outer Space” ?
:)
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posted on
09/02/2007 10:10:46 AM PDT
by
WireAndWood
(I had a pet frog, but he croaked.)
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Ack, Ack, Ack back at ya!
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posted on
09/02/2007 10:13:19 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: Caramelgal
We were playing something and pretending we were Cat Women from Outer Space. Cat women for outer space, I love it! I grew up in the 50s(graduated HS in 1959 at 17)and we used to play stuff like that all the time except of course we were boys(we did let our sisters play too, but only if they were the heroins who needed saving). The 1950s and 60s were science fiction heaven, you could imagine anything then before science ruined it:).
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posted on
09/02/2007 10:21:23 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
I can’t watch that movie with the dogs in the house: They go absolutely buggy when the Martians start “talking”. That “Ack ack, ack ack ack-ack” sends them right off the deep end. I can’t hear the soundtrack for their barking, and my laughing.
I agree that it was probably a small meteorite. Space junk, for whomever was incredulous that NASA would say anything about it, is stuff that people put up there. NASA is tracking over 4000 pieces of such junk, so they would probably know if it was manmade.
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posted on
09/02/2007 10:22:39 AM PDT
by
Don W
(I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.)
To: LurkedLongEnough
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posted on
09/02/2007 10:24:52 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(That's just what I need - some two-bit, washed up, loser politician giving me weather forecasts...)
To: Westlander
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posted on
09/02/2007 10:37:20 AM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
To: Westlander
A scary idea from one of my other boards.
Mr. Reeves is going to play Klatuu in the new re-imaging of
The Day The Earth Stood Still.
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posted on
09/02/2007 11:14:31 AM PDT
by
Talking_Mouse
(O Lord, destroy Islam by converting the Muslims to Christianity.)
To: abb
have not seen this one yet, very funny.
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posted on
09/02/2007 11:28:05 AM PDT
by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate tag lines but I don't know how...)
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