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Massive fireball reported across Midwestern sky
CNN ^ | 04/14/2010 | CNN Wire Staff

Posted on 04/15/2010 12:15:13 PM PDT by autumnraine

Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said.

The fireball was visible for about 15 minutes beginning about 10 p.m., said the National Weather Service in Sullivan, Wisconsin, just west of Milwaukee.

"The fireball was seen over the northern sky, moving from west to east," said the NWS in the Quad Cities area, which includes parts of Iowa and Illinois.

"Well before it reached the horizon, it broke up into smaller pieces and was lost from sight," the service said. "Several reports of a prolonged sonic boom were received from areas north of Highway 20, along with shaking of homes, trees and various other objects including wind chimes," it said.

It said the fireball was seen across parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. CNN affiliate WISN-TV said that people in Ohio also saw it.

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KEYWORDS: catastrophism; fireball; madison; meteor; meteorite; wisconsin
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To: autumnraine
There was a "live" thread about it last night but apparently no one put any keywords in so I can't find it. Here is another thread about it from this morning though.

Meteor streaks across the (Midwest)region's sky (Video too!)

21 posted on 04/15/2010 12:35:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
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To: camerongood210
The ash is from the Iceland Volcanoe/....see this thread:

Iceland evacuates hundreds as volcano erupts again

22 posted on 04/15/2010 12:35:49 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: nagdt
That’s pretty cool. Looks like a giant meteor.

Like a direct outtake from Close Encounters. Yeah, pretty cool.

23 posted on 04/15/2010 12:37:26 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: screaminsunshine

Has anyone seen Dennis Kucinich?


24 posted on 04/15/2010 12:39:07 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
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To: Ladysmith

From a sherrif’s dashcam. Sitting in the dark was he on a stake out or enjoying some fresh coffee and donuts.


25 posted on 04/15/2010 12:39:10 PM PDT by Bruinator (God is Great.... Beer is good.... people are?)
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To: autumnraine
On a different note, perhaps an A-flat, "sonic booms scare minority groups in Sectors R and S" (and there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut)...
26 posted on 04/15/2010 12:40:17 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Don't waste your vote on a 'Rat wearing an Elephant suit.)
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To: autumnraine

It’s obvious what this was: it was one of the bi-planes that Obama has ordered to protect us from Iranian missiles, going down in flames.


27 posted on 04/15/2010 12:41:34 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Is Obama an Irish, Italian or Japanese name?)
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To: autumnraine
My husband and I saw the fireball as we were coming home from church. It looked like a bright star; then it got larger and very bright before it exploded! The whole sky lit up.

It was a magificant sight.

28 posted on 04/15/2010 12:42:49 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever ( Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness)
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To: tatsinfla

Either that or he had the Taco/ Enchilada platter with extra hot sauce like me last night!! LOL


29 posted on 04/15/2010 12:46:00 PM PDT by jakerobins
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To: tuckrdout
And you just said, “huh?” and went to bed? Is that right?

Pretty much. I think I said "That was cool" and then stuck my head outside to listen for a boom but didn't hear one. Then off to bed.

30 posted on 04/15/2010 12:48:02 PM PDT by trad_anglican
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To: autumnraine

I was fishing last night up near the Wisconsin/Illinois border. At first I thought somebody was shining a spotlight from my right side and looked to the Northwest to see a yellow/orange fireball streaking by. It lit up the sky for about 3 or 4 seconds then it disappeared. What a show.


31 posted on 04/15/2010 12:48:11 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: autumnraine

32 posted on 04/15/2010 12:49:01 PM PDT by ScottinVA (RIP to the country I love...)
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To: autumnraine
HOME ELIOT.....
33 posted on 04/15/2010 12:55:33 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: autumnraine

I was driving over this small bridge one night with my GF when all of a sudden this screaming fast roaring fireball flew right across the front of my car.
We were both like WTF!!!

The next day me and a bud searched the park alongside the bridge but found nothing.
It probably landed in the river.


34 posted on 04/15/2010 12:55:56 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: autumnraine
Ben Nelson's political career flaming out?
35 posted on 04/15/2010 1:00:52 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (ClimateScandal.org)
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To: autumnraine

Swamp Gas!


36 posted on 04/15/2010 1:02:58 PM PDT by occamrzr06
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To: autumnraine
a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky

Ted Kennedy's burial capsule re-entering the atmosphere.

37 posted on 04/15/2010 1:05:08 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Conservative Bostonian, atheist pro-lifer, mocker of the clueless)
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To: Moonman62
No it doesn't. Even 15 seconds would be a long time for a bolide to be visible.
38 posted on 04/15/2010 1:05:38 PM PDT by stormer
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To: autumnraine

I may be wrong, but I don’t ever remember a meteor shower that moved from West to East.
Because of the rotation of the earth, when the earth is passing through a debris field, after nightfall, any meteor appears to move east to west.

I’d bet this was a piece of space junk falling out of a west to east orbit.


39 posted on 04/15/2010 1:06:41 PM PDT by Big Otto
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To: autumnraine
"The fireball was seen over the northern sky, moving from west to east," --- broke up into smaller pieces and was lost from sight," the service said. "Several reports of a prolonged sonic boom were received from areas north of Highway 20, along with shaking of homes, trees---."

That was Barak Hussein Obama's approval rating soaring to Hell in a handbasket.

40 posted on 04/15/2010 1:22:24 PM PDT by jiminycricket000
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