[chigung]

Id say that would qualify as an "act of god" on my insurance policy.

[Timesink]

What?!

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

Well there's something else to worry about now. I thought the Patriot would shoot these down.

[error99]

No chit?

[Z-28]

chit ...

[Dog]

What is chitting??

[Non-Sequitur]

Maybe it was an Iraqi Scud? I understand those things are not very accurate.

[A. Morgan]

http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=13&ID=91586&r=0

[Brasky]

Park forest was the location. No kidding last night I was laying on my couch and I happened to glance out the backyard window and I saw what I thought was maybe lightning. Flash in the sky. The window faces south, as per I live in Elmhurst.

[Timesink]

Well, I found this...

Possible meteorite seen streaking across night skyThursday, March 27, 2003

By The Associated Press

People throughout the Midwest called police after seeing a flash of bright blue light in the midnight sky.

The National Weather Service said it was likely that either a meteorite or piece of space debris broke up.

People in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio called police agencies about 1 a.m. EST Thursday to report seeing a bright blue light in the sky. Sgt. Jeff Mangiaracina with the Sheriff's Department in Will County, Ill., said he received calls from as far away as Wisconsin.

National Weather Service offices in Indianapolis, Chicago and Wilmington, Ohio, reported receiving calls about the object.

Jim Kaplan with the Romeoville, Ill., office of the Weather Service said he was outside checking a rain gauge when he saw a flash of light in the sky.

"First, it got very bright and the sky lit up," Kaplan said. "You could see something streaking across the sky and breaking up into glowing chunks as it went from west to east."

"We've got no official classification as to what it was," Weather Service meteorologist Casey Sullivan said.

In a suburb south of Chicago several homes were struck by what appeared to be chunks of meteorite. The falling objects pierced the roofs of two homes and the Park Forest fire station, but no one was injured, said Park Forest Police Capt. Francis DioGuardi.

"We have recovered several fallen objects," he said. "They look like rocks. One of them is the size of a shot put."

He said one chunk slightly damaged a home after landing on a residential street and breaking apart.

Meteorologist Greg Tipton in the Wilmington, Ohio, weather service office, said he had heard reports that some debris hit the ground north of Cincinnati.

"But we haven't nailed that down," he said.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

A meteroite has hit outside of Chicago, chitting an apartment complex...

It was the residents of the apartment complex who were "chitting".

[ArneFufkin]

I'm putting the blame on Mrs. O'Malley's cow.

[IncPen]

Only one explanantion.

Al Queda!

[uglybiker]

...chitting an apartment complex ...

I've heard of chitting a brick, but chitting an apartment complex? ;-)

[Fifth Business]

I saw it too. Last night my wife and I were watching war coverage when the sky outside our windows lit up for a second or two. We knew it wasn't lightning because the color was wrong. We live in-town and have windows facing east, so I thought it was coming from out over the lake.

[Peach]

So sorry for doubting you!

[XHogPilot]

Probably just a stray/faulty DPRK (North Korean) missile shot. Nothing to worry about.

[Illbay]

Weekly World News says it's the first salvo of the war with an alien race in parking orbit around the moon.

[edwin hubble]

This may be the first time in recorded history that a meteorite has caused direct injury to a human.
(Hasn't happened in the past.)

The closest yet was a small one hitting an unoccupied parked car.

[12B]

It could be....it might be.....it's outta here!!!!