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This is a copy of the E Mail I sent to Fox yesterday an hour after the shuttle went overhead.
I observed the re-entry of the Columbia from my location in California (38,120lat) at 5.55 AM PST. Here is what I observed; when the shuttle was directly overhead there was a bright flash with an expanding circular field of small objects. A few seconds later there was a brighter flash visable through binoculars which appeared to originate from the left wing area on the shuttle. Most of northern California was cloudy at this time but there was a temporary hole above us when the shuttle flew overhead. There were more flashes as the shuttle approached the eastern horizon at which point the shuttle could no longer be ovserved. Both myself and my son observed the same events described. He was 10 miles east-southest of my location at the time.