[Ben Ficklin]

NASA's Mission Status Center is reporting witness reports mentioning parts disassociationg from the shuttle as it crossed California.

Mission Status Center

[NonValueAdded]

gov Huckabee reports debris in 3 counties in Arkansas. Search now moved west into New Mexico. Belief is breakup started before over Texas. Per Tony Snow et al on Fox.

[Gracey]

THANK YOU so very much for the wonderful link. I've passed it around to my NASA peers.

[snopercod]

1620 GMT (11:20 a.m. EST)

We are getting reports from Central California from photographers
are telling us that they saw a couple small objects flying free of the
shuttle's streak across the sky.