FAA says Texas fireball was meteor, not a UFO
DALLAS – The fireball that streaked across the sky and alarmed numerous Texas residents was likely just a big meteor and not wreckage from colliding satellites, experts said Monday.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig said the fireball seen across a wide stretch of the state Sunday morning probably was a natural phenomenon and not debris from last week's collision between an Iridium communications satellite and a Russian military space vehicle.
And Preston Starr, observatory manager at the University of North Texas, said it probably was a meteor about the size of a pickup truck with the consistency of a chunk of concrete.
The Williamson County sheriff's office in central Texas said it received so many emergency calls about the light in the sky that it sent deputies out in a helicopter to look for a plane crash.
The FAA had said during the weekend that the fireball possibly was caused by falling debris from the satellites. It also posted a weekend warning telling pilots to watch out for satellite debris but rescinded the warning Sunday, Herwig said.
Anyone got a pic of this meteor?
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Thanks for clearing that up FAA
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i think the meteor was
left over plane parts from 9-11 and the terrorists and alien are in collusion to overthrow the American people!!!
Oh Jesus...if you do exist...now is the time to come back with all your star wars collectibles and take it to these extra-terrestrial commie jihadists!!!
Special Chem Trail Meteor
Dumping mind control chemicals all over Texas to persuade Texans to drink more beer, watch more teevee, and vote for Demoblicans.
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Have you seen the video of this?
Very slow speed for a meteor.
Here's what I think..
The media kept pushing "commercial" satellite yesterday. Lot's of citizens went to area to find debris. None was found. So now they can ease citizens minds with the fact that it was a meteor. But what I truly feel is..
that it was a satellite, not commercial but military and just like we shot China's from the sky late last year, someone (Russia, China..) has shot ours down as a warning of military strength.
Tell me all the astronomers looking into the skies and no one saw this meteor coming?
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Lynn,
As far as "no one saw it coming" that happens daily. The earth gets hit by a meteor a day at least. Some skip off the upper atmosphere and continue on, some burn up in an instant, and a few make it almost to ground.
There are only a small handful of observatories (countable on two hands) that dedicate all of their time to hunting and cataloging them.
There are hundreds of thousands of rock hunks floating around out there.
We don't see the majority of them that hit us until they have already hit us.
Why would 'our' satellite be hovering over 'our' country?
Why would anyone go through the expense of trying to shoot down a non-invasive satellite?
I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...
I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...
And how do they explain the
And how do they explain the sonic booms? This story stinks of something.
http://federalfallacy.com
http://federalfallacy.com
Meteors always cause sonic booms
Anything moving faster than the speed of sound causes a sonic boom.
Depending on the meteor's angle of approach the shock wave may never reach you, but it is always created.
EXCUSE ME?!!!!
Thats the biggest load of BULL I have heard in a long time. Since when do shooting stars make SONIC BOOMS! I've seen hundreds of shooting stars and been witness to many many meteor showers and NEVER one SONIC BOOM!
That thing that crashed was something TOTALLY different. It was not a meteor and it was not a fragment of a satelite. It was something TOTALLY out of the ordinary. It's speed and pitch was very odd.
I would guess there is a war going on up there and it is coming down here real real soon. And I don't mean these little wars against punk@ss warlords and tinpot dictators. Something BIG is just around the corner. Stock up!
Does my burka make my butt look fatwa?
Does my burka make my butt look fatwa?
Research Tunguska.
Half of eurasia heard that boom and it was big enough that when it went boom, it took out hundreds of acres of siberian forest.
When the entry angle is that steep they most often vaporize before hitting the ground. When they vaporize instantaneously, they do indeed go boom. Big boom.