[meteorite-list] Nebraska Man Says...

[Sterling K. Webb]

Everybody!

    Once again, I do mock prostration's while chanting  "I'm not worthy; I'm not worthy."
    I took the Mexican village story from John C. Lewis' RAIN OF IRON AND ICE, an older book
(but excellent), which was probably the source that first put that Mexican village story
forward, where it could be investigated and discredited...
    As Johnny Carson used to say and somehow make it funny, "I did not know that." It's off
my list.
    I do recall that his citation was The New York Times from the period (1946). One tends to
trust The New York Times, or one did...
    There are commercial services that search an immense database of newspapers from many
countries stretching back a couple centuries for anything you want to pay them for.
    In the 1970's (?), Lewis paid one such service to search 100,000's of newspaper/years for
possible meteorite related key words and assembled a cluster of the top "hits."
    The Swedish man and his poor arm was extensively researched and published in Sky And
Telescope some years back.
    Charles Fort LIVED in the Periodical Room of the New York Public Library.
    Ninninger did newspaper searches, too, looking for new falls.
    Then, there's Mark!


Sterling K. Webb
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MexicoDoug at aol.com wrote:

> Sterling wrote:
>
> >While most incidents are of a meteorite strike to a single person,
> >there are accounts of multiple human hits. In 1949, a shower
> >in a remote Mexican village "wounded" 28 people, one of whom
> >later died. (And we on the List make a big fuss over one lousy  dog...)
>
> Sterling, You can confidently remove this event from your  database of
> meteorite hits.  That never happened, send it to the wacko  file - the
> disinformation is being propagated by popular  researchers who can't read Spanish, didn't
> check sources and wanted to  write shocking books that sell - and now has come
> back to haunt even the Mexican  Roswell contingent, too.  Your references
> didn't do their homework or just  wanted badly enough to believe it.  Sorry, that
> dog still burns  brightly as ever...even if she never did...Saludos,  Doug