[meteorite-list] Strange Light Over Tennessee May Have Been Exploding Meteor

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/13266.asp

Strange Light May Have Been Exploding Meteorite
News Channel 5 (Nashville, Tennessee)
July 27, 2005

If you think you spotted something unusual in the sky Monday 
night, you're not alone. People all across Middle Tennessee 
called in reports of a streak in the sky followed by a loud 
boom, and experts now think it may have been a meteorite.

Sightings were reported throughout Tennessee and Kentucky, 
and Rocky Alvey at Vanderbilt's Dyer Observatory said he 
believes it was a meteorite called a bolide. Alvey said a 
bolide is a fireball that explodes in the air.

Astronomers who track reports of fireballs in the sky have 
received reports about what happened Monday night.

Emergency dispatchers in Perry County said they took 60 calls 
from people who saw the event.

One man even said the sound was so loud it shook his house, 
and a woman reported seeing what looked like a shooting star 
20 feet above her house in Wilson County.