[meteorite-list] Fireball and booms reported - Dorchester County, Md., to the Virginia/North Carolina border

[Fries, Marc D]

Cripes...   So count with me, since 01 Jan: Denmark, West TX, Kentucky,
Westchester NY, Zimbabwe, Augusta GA, Sacramento CA...  This is apparently
building up towards getting thwacked by Uranus around Halloween.

Gotta love the North Korean refrigerator comment in here, too...

Cheers,
MDF


http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/loud-explosions-lights-sky-reported-maryland
-nc

Streaking lights, explosions reported all along coast

Were they meteors? A comet? UFOs?

People from Maryland to Hampton Roads heard loud explosions and saw
brilliant, streaking lights in the sky Sunday night.

There was no immediate explanation, the National Weather Service office
in Wakefield said. The Virginia Beach 911 center had numerous calls
waiting just before 10 p.m., a supervisor said.

The Weather Service said reports were made from Dorchester County, Md.,
to the Virginia/North Carolina border. People said they saw a streak in
the sky and heard an explosion.

³It was orange, like a fireball,² said Steve Wagner, who lives in the
Great Bridge area of Chesapeake and said what he saw was too close to be
a shooting star. Wagner was outside cooking with family when he saw the
streak. He said he went inside when his daughter called, then heard an
explosion that sounded like thunder.

Chris Wamsley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service¹s
Wakefield office, said there could be various causes of the explosions
and lights. A team of people is looking into what happened, he said.

Lindsey Hosek of the Great Neck area of Virginia Beach was jogging along
the water with her dog when the sky lit up, she said.

³The bright light at first terrified me because I thought somebody was
shining a light on me, and then I saw it, and I was in complete awe
because it was so beautiful,² she said.

Then she saw something that looked like a comet moving low toward the
ground; it was blue in front followed by orange and appeared to be the
shape and size of a refrigerator.

³It was just so low. It was like where a bird should be,² she said. ³It
was definitely heading downward.²

She was on the phone with a friend a minute later when she heard an
explosion.

Kenneth Martin of Chesapeake¹s South Norfolk neighborhood said he saw
what appeared to be lightning, then the sky turned blue.

Then, he said, a white ball of fire shot close to the ground and
appeared to burn out. He said he¹s sure it was a meteor.

³It was so vivid in the sky, blinking,² he said. ³It was the strangest
thing I¹ve ever seen.²

No damage was reported, the Weather Service said.

/Patrick Wilson, (757) 446-2957, patrick.wilson at pilotonline.com/



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