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Nothing new here, just another eyewitness of the image that unfolded on TV countless times over the past 2 days:

Father & sons are duck hunting near Texarkana, AR when they saw the trail shooting across the southern horizon. A friend says, "What is THAT?!" Aerospace nerd Father answers, "The shuttle. No, wait, that can't be the shuttle; shuttles don't break apart like that. It must be a meteor." The next generation techno-nerd son insists, "It WAS the shuttle, Dad!" Unfortunately for the families, loved ones, NASA & the Father's ego, he is, of course, right.

An acquaintance saw debris raining down near the Hemphill, TX/Lake Toledo Bend area (human remains were found here) & "yes, he did realize what he was seeing".

Aerospace nerd Father answers, "The shuttle. No, wait, that can't be the shuttle; shuttles don't break apart like that. It must be a meteor." The next generation techno-nerd son insists, "It WAS the shuttle, Dad!"

Thanks, FRiend. This picture was the headline in the Dallas Morning News Sunday. It took up most of the top half of the front page:

ROBERT McCULLOUGH / © 2003, DMN
Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it hurtled
across North Texas shortly before 8 a.m. Saturday.
The image was taken in Flower Mound.
Flower Mound is not far from D/FW Airport...