[meteorite-list] Mysterious Flash Of Light Reported in Detroit Sky

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/3774616/detail.html

Drivers Report Mysterious Flash Of Light In Sky
Radio Show Host Receives Dozens Of Calls

Click On Detroit
September 30, 2004

A local radio station's phone lines lit up Thursday morning 
after motorists reported seeing a mysterious flash of light 
in the sky, Local 4 reported. 
 
Several drivers in the area of Interstate 275 and Interstate 94 
called into WOMC radio at about 5:45 a.m. to report an 
unidentified light flashing in the sky. 

"It was a bright flash, almost like a huge flashlight, almost 
like a generator going off," said one caller.  

The host of the radio station's morning show, Dick Purtan, said 
he had no answer to what people had witnessed in the sky. 

"The first thing that I thought of was that this was possibly 
the asteroid, this big rock that's about 3 miles long and a 
mile-and-a-half wide that actually came within a million miles 
of earth this morning, but the trouble is they say that it's 
not visible," Purtan said. 

Officials at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base reported no 
flying this morning, so there were no records or photographs 
taken that may have identified the flash of light. 

Metro airport also had no trace of the light flash because the 
airport's radar readings only cover a 40-mile radius, Local 4 
reported. 

The National Weather Service in Cleveland told Local 4 that the 
mysterious light may have been moonbeams poking through the clouds. 

Local 4 attempted to contact the North American Aerospace Defense 
Command, which protects the airspace over the United States and 
Canada. NORAD had yet to return calls concerning the mysterious 
light.