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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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61 posted on 09/02/2007 11:36:59 AM PDT by No Blue States
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To: calex59
we did let our sisters play too, but only if they were the heroins who needed saving)

That’s funny! Back in my day, in the late sixties in my neighborhood, there were many more boys than girls. Some of us girls wanted to play, not with baby dolls and Babies, but to play war with the boys with cool stuff like toy guns because that was a lot more fun.

The boys would play WWII and only let us girls play if we agreed to be nurses treating the wounded behind enemy lines. But that was no fun.

We would agree to get into the game by “pretending” to be mere nurses then we’d devise our strategy as being secret double-double agents. We’d take the guns from the wounded and ambush the Nazis with our inside information and save the Americans!

We were wily and devious and imaginative. The boys cried foul and said we cheated and wouldn’t let us girls play any more.

This is a true story and I actually remember telling one boy, “We didn’t cheat: All’s fair in love and war”.

Alas, we girls were kicked out anyway so instead we stole the boys GI Joes and paired them up with our more intellectually superior Barbies. Barbie would devise the espionage plots and GI Joe was the muscle to carry out our plans.
62 posted on 09/02/2007 1:10:15 PM PDT by Caramelgal (Rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words or superficial interpretations)
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63 posted on 09/02/2007 3:41:08 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough (I love fireballs.)
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To: Caramelgal
We were wily and devious and imaginative. The boys cried foul and said we cheated and wouldn’t let us girls play any more.

I think kids had more fun then. We played games by the hour and never got tired of it, of course boys were a little on the chauvinistic side then, but we grew out of it when we found out what treasures girls really were! I feel sorry today for kids who don't use their immaginations but rely on computer games, tv, etc.

64 posted on 09/02/2007 4:07:28 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Westlander

Cool pic of two barking moonbats.


65 posted on 09/02/2007 4:30:42 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Fight the illegal Mexican colonizers & imperialist conquistadors! Long live the resistance!)
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66 posted on 09/02/2007 4:42:35 PM PDT by dfwddr (Duncan Hunter '08 -- the real thing.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

take me to your leader


67 posted on 09/02/2007 5:09:00 PM PDT by Coleus (Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: Coleus
If something like this starts wading ashore on the New Jersey coast, RUN.


68 posted on 09/02/2007 11:46:22 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

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69 posted on 09/15/2009 8:12:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Probably didn’t land anywhere near where witnesses claim to have seen it land. Meteors deceptively fall out of the sky and seem to land nearby, but bright falling objects tend to seem much closer than they really are, especially when they’re moving so fast as to be impossible for the eye to track.


70 posted on 09/15/2009 8:15:16 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Caramelgal

“As it turned out it wasn’t little green men or those nasty Ruskies, but a meteorite that disappeared into a high hill top called Peter’s Mountain.”

I wish I’d been roasting marshmallows at a campire when you told that story. You left out the last line - “Then the Aliens appeared!”


71 posted on 09/15/2009 8:29:28 PM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: Caramelgal

Probably about the same age - 7 or 8 back in 67 - 68. Was out one evening skating on the pond. I was tired and laid back to rest in a snow bank. Thought FOR SURE I saw a HUGE fireball - larger than a full moon. And of course it looked like it landed in the next neighborhood. I ran home and made mom call the TV station but they had no reports.

It is such a vague memory that now I wonder if I didn’t fall asleep on that snowbank and dreamt it!? But obviously I didn’t think so at the time.


72 posted on 09/15/2009 8:54:46 PM PDT by 21twelve (Drive Reality out with a pitchfork if you want , it always comes back.)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

It was the night of June 14, 1967.


73 posted on 09/15/2009 9:08:15 PM PDT by TaMoDee
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To: SunkenCiv

What....I thought I saw something tonight.


74 posted on 09/15/2009 9:18:11 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
We were camping last summer just west of Abiquiu, NM.

Between the lightening in the distance and the array of incoming celestial objects, it was hard to sleep.

People at lower altitudes miss out on a lot.

75 posted on 09/16/2009 4:08:26 AM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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It was Obama’s craft coming back to earth. We should have paid more attention when it happened.


76 posted on 09/16/2009 4:48:31 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ein Volk, Ein Riech, Ein Ein.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
"Reports: 'Fireball' Crashes into Water Off New Jersey"

The Space Ship ACORN crashing and burning maybe?

77 posted on 09/16/2009 4:50:02 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: TaMoDee

I was on leave at the time, when I got to the party and told what I saw, I was the official goofball for the nite, LOL......vindicated the next day, tho :) Soon afterward I saw plenty of lights in the sky where I went. It was hundreds of miles east of me, I wish that it hadn’t been overcast....what a sight it must have been without the clouds....


78 posted on 09/16/2009 5:32:24 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: Vermont Lt
It was Obama’s craft coming back to earth. We should have paid more attention when it happened.

Silly Vermont Lt. Obama's not from outer space. He's from Kenya. (His wife however?)

79 posted on 09/16/2009 5:44:51 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Hmmm...
80 posted on 09/16/2009 6:11:49 AM PDT by pabianice
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