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Callers report flashing lights, loud 'boom'
Daily Press ^ | March 30 2009 | Mike Holtzclaw

Posted on 03/30/2009 4:33:57 AM PDT by DYngbld

Meteorolgists are investigating and trying to explain widespread reports on the Eastern Seaboard of flashing lights and a noise that sounded like a loud explosion in the sky last night. A spokesman for Virginia Beach police said the city's emergency call center received dozens of calls shortly after 9:30 p.m. Sunday reporting "a loud explosion, like a 'boom,' that rattled their windows." He said several of the callers also described a bright flash of light accompanying the sound. The National Weather Service received similar reports along the East Coast along the Eastern Shore and into Maryland around the same time. There have been no reports of damage, and meteorologists from the National Weather Service office in Wakefield said there was no immediate explanation for the reports.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bigboom; ufo; virginiabeach
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To: DYngbld
I'm in Newport News. My son saw it last night and rushed inside to ask me about it. He didn't report any sounds, but he did say it was orange in hue trailing sparks, heading from southwest to northeast, and appeared to move towards the local horizon.

I didn't see it myself but, based on his report, I would tend to think this was a fireball i.e. a brighter than usual meteor.

41 posted on 03/30/2009 6:03:20 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
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To: DYngbld

Afterburner > sonic boom.


42 posted on 03/30/2009 6:13:06 AM PDT by CPOSharky (Zero: I don't care about the country as long as I'm in charge. Forever.)
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To: cripplecreek

It was 0bama’s NCAA basketball bracket.


43 posted on 03/30/2009 6:13:50 AM PDT by Perdogg (Go Tarheels)
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To: poobear
It must be those Amish practicing surface to air missiles again.

Nah. It was the delayed sonic booms from the space shuttle returning from the ISS.

44 posted on 03/30/2009 6:15:20 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It took almost 250 years to make the USA great and 30 days for "The Failure" BO to tear it down.)
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To: Humal

similar reports more local happened before

http://wjz.com/local/baltimore.county.mystery.2.710503.html


45 posted on 03/30/2009 6:16:07 AM PDT by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: John W

The Cylons have finally had enough of us.


46 posted on 03/30/2009 6:16:20 AM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: cripplecreek

Locally we call the flashes “lightning” and the loud booming noise “thunder”.


47 posted on 03/30/2009 6:20:59 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: DYngbld

I heard a double boom Saturday and wondered what it was, before I realized it was the shuttle coming in to land at the Kennedy Space Center.


48 posted on 03/30/2009 6:30:24 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Rich Curry, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s office in Wakefield, said reports from last night have been reviewed and showed “nothing meteorological we can find that would explain this.”


49 posted on 03/30/2009 6:41:50 AM PDT by John W
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To: DYngbld

Was this around the time we learned the President of the United States had fired the CEO of General Motors? Maybe someone is trying to tell us something.


50 posted on 03/30/2009 6:56:07 AM PDT by John W
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To: silverleaf
If there was something bad in the known future, certain powers in the world might cause a lot of its economy to “disappear” as they cached for their own survival, and leave the govts to spend money like “there was no tomorrow!”

Exactly. It's not that difficult to shoehorn what's been happening with the world economy into this scenario. Maybe nutty BUT...

hmmm. Wonder if anyone has physically inventoried the world’s govt-held gold lately.

Wasn't there just a story about Fort Knox and how nobody is really sure IF there really is any gold left in there?

51 posted on 03/30/2009 7:03:57 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DYngbld

WAVY.com Emails about the mystery in the sky

Updated: Monday, 30 Mar 2009, 9:31 AM EDT

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_wavy_emails_about_the_mystery_in_the_sky_20090330


52 posted on 03/30/2009 7:26:47 AM PDT by John W
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To: silverleaf

If the strange lights and sounds have been going on for “months”, as the article says, no, it probably wouldn’t be from the satellite.


53 posted on 03/30/2009 7:38:56 AM PDT by Humal
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To: John W
Thanks for posting that link.

Sounds like a meteor?

Keep us informed, ok?

Thanks!

54 posted on 03/30/2009 7:43:26 AM PDT by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: Humal
To burn that long I would think it would have to be a big piece.

I heard nothing or saw nothing last night, The Direct TV reception was disrupted a bit around that time, but nothing out of the ordinary. I am leaning toward a meteor from the reports I have read it sound like it might have been. It may have been large enough to produce a "sonic boom" that could be heard for some distance.

55 posted on 03/30/2009 7:44:09 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: Hatteras
In all seriesness, yesterday afternoon was clear but very windy in the Raleigh area. Doing yard work, I kept hearing what sounded like rolling thunder.

This morning around 3:30 AM, I was lying in bed after having woken and having trouble getting back to sleep, when I heard this prolonged low-frequency rumbling outside. There was no weather in the area.

It was pretty weird.

56 posted on 03/30/2009 7:48:35 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: WVKayaker

LOL, I heard this, saw the flash and thought “cool, thunder is starting early this year”.

It did rattle the house more than a normal thunderclap, but was still pretty thunder-like.


57 posted on 03/30/2009 7:56:22 AM PDT by Betis70 (Go UConn)
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To: DYngbld

Project Xylophone has gotten out of control.


58 posted on 03/30/2009 8:11:33 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Obama had to destroy the economy in order to save it.)
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To: DYngbld

59 posted on 03/30/2009 8:25:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (And oh, Hey! I've been travelin' on this road too long)
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To: Old Sarge
There is a third possiblity as well.


60 posted on 03/30/2009 8:31:52 AM PDT by Carling ("We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down," - Warwick Spooner)
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