[meteorite-list] fireball over midwest

[Chris Peterson]

Contrary to the article posted by Ron, the fireball was traveling mainly 
north to south, and it looks like most of the action was over west 
central Illinois. It was west of Champaign. I have independent reports 
from Beardstown and Lewistown (30 miles apart) of sonic booms after the 
fireball passed overhead, with short enough time delays to suggest that 
the object was fairly low at that point (15-20 miles). One witness also 
reported electrophonic noise. Termination was probably somewhere between 
Beardstown and St Louis.

I'm not investigating this fireball myself, but thought I'd pass along 
the information that has come my way.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edwin Thompson" <etmeteorites at hotmail.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:21 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] fireball over midwest


> Hello list members. Received two frantic calls from hunters who say 
> there was a huge meteor over Illinois, Indiana and reports from 
> Missouri.  It was talked about by Paul Harvey this morning
> and it sounds like something large came in. Does anyone have more 
> details?
>
> Thanks, E.T.