Uh oh! Couldn't we turn it loose in Congress?
Posted on 11/10/2009 7:49:44 PM PST by TaraP
DENVER -- Dozens of Denver's 7News viewers called the newsroom Thursday evening to report a giant fireball seen streaking across the Colorado night sky. Many of the callers all said the fireball looked as thought it crashed into the earth somewhere on the Front Range.
It was spectacular," said Keith Cabaniss of Longmont. "I was sitting on the porch and saw it come from the east headed west to southwest. I was at the right place at the right time."
A research scientist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science confirmed that the fireball seen by many people was a meteor, according to Julia Taylor, spokeswoman for the museum. It was not immediately known if, or where, the fireball crashed into the earth.
The meteor was seen around 6:30 p.m. as far away as Fort Collins, Colorado Springs and Wyoming, according to eyewitness accounts passed to 7News.
It appeared so large that one Ken Carl resident said that she could even see the flames from the fireball.
The Poudre Fire Authority dispatch center said that the first calls about the meteor came in at 6:35 p.m. from eyewitnesses who thought that they saw a plane crash.
The Federal Aviation Administration investigated but concluded that there were no overdue planes, according to a dispatcher. A plane crash was ruled out by the FAA.
Many viewers who called 7News claimed the fireball was one of the most spectacular sights they had ever witnessed.
The flight control tower operators at Jefferson County Airport said that they saw the fireball at 6:21 p.m. and it "lit up the entire control tower." It was then seen streaking across the Continental Divide, according to an airport manager.
KRDO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Colorado Springs, said they got calls from viewers who say the meteor looked as though it touched down near Pikes Peak.
While the sightings were far and wide, the researchers at the Museum of Nature and Science would not be able to get confirmation on the meteor until Friday morning when data could be analyzed, according to Taylor.
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2012 is starting early ! dam that GW Bush
I saw it in Albuquerque N.M on the way home tonight.Very cool to see.
I saw it in Albuquerque N.M on the way home tonight very cool to see.
Looks like you saw it twice.
I wonder if something that large crashing into the earth would be recorded seismically? If so, the impact point should be easy to figure.
His approval numbers are crashing.
It would be instructive to know whether you saw it in the north, or the western sky?
The original source lists the post date as November 2002..?? Ok, what gives? Just now getting around to posting this?
He would bow to them too!
Yeah, late November 2002.
However, see my post 31.
We are seeing quite a few of these fireballs lately...
Scarry...
To the west.
lol
We can only wish. LOL
Uh oh! Couldn't we turn it loose in Congress?
The worldwide blackouts (ie Brazil) is how Was of the Worlds started (newest version). The Catholic Church is investigating alien life... Uh Oh
Caryl as in Ken Caryl Ranch.
The flight control tower operators at Jefferson County Airport(sic)
Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport
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