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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ah, Fred the bomb maker! I wonder if he’s been busy again all over the world?
Mysterious East Coast Boom Was Falling Russian Rocket
http://www.space.com/news/090330-rocket-debris.html
The mysterious boom and flash of light seen over parts of Virginia Sunday night was not a meteor, but actually exploding space junk from the second stage of a Russian Soyuz rocket falling back to Earth, according to an official with the U.S. Naval Observatory.
New thread on the topic.
Wow, thanks so much John......I guess I’m out of touch, didn’t even hear about the rocket going off last week.
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