[meteorite-list] UARS -- Alberta or Pacific fall?

[Sterling K. Webb]

http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Aspiring+Calgary+filmmaker+created+satellite+hoax/5456974/story.html

Sterllng K. Webb
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From: "MexicoDoug" <mexicodoug at aim.com>
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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] UARS -- Alberta or Pacific fall?


> Listees, with kindest wishes, Doug:
>
> One more comment on Okotoks, Alberta, Canada for those of you who who 
> can find a lighter side of this:
>
> The tweet that started making the rounds claiming debris was found in 
> Okotoks, supposedly a local reporter accompanied by a professor:
>
> Here is the text of the Friday night tweets that started the hoax, 
> originally by "imnotgonnalie2u":
>
> "Reporter Carl Phillips on the scene near Okotoks, AB, #UARS debris 
> found at the Wilmuth Farm.
> 24 Sep
> Carl Phillips Reporting - Professor Pierson and myself made the eleven 
> miles from Calgary in ten minutes. #UARS #okotoks
> 24 Sep
> Carl Phillips, reporter on scene, "half buried in a vast pit. Must 
> have struck with terrific force." #UARS #okotoks
> 24 Sep
> Carl Phillips reporting, "The ground is covered with splinters of a 
> tree it must have struck on its way down." #UARS #Okotoks
> 24 Sep"
>
> And, here are excerps from the "War of the Worlds" radio story when 
> the Martians invaded, from 1938:
>
> ANNOUNCER TWO: We are now ready to take you to the Princeton 
> Observatory at Princeton where Carl Phillips, our commentator, will 
> interview Professor Richard Pierson, famous astronomer. We take you 
> now to Princeton, New Jersey.
>
> (CROWD NOISES . . . POLICE SIRENS)
>
> PHILLIPS: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Carl Phillips again, at the 
> Wilmuth farm, Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Professor Pierson and myself 
> made the eleven miles from Princeton in ten minutes. Well, I . . . I 
> hardly know where to begin, to paint for you a word picture of the 
> strange scene before my eyes, like something out of a modern "Arabian 
> Nights." Well, I just got here. I haven't had a chance to look around 
> yet. I guess that's it. Yes, I guess that's the . . . thing, directly 
> in front of me, half buried in a vast pit. Must have struck with 
> terrific force. The ground is covered with splinters of a tree it must 
> have struck on its way down. What I can see of the . . . object itself 
> doesn't look very much like a meteor, at least not the meteors I've 
> seen. It looks more like a huge cylinder. It has a diameter of . . . 
> what would you say, Professor Pierson?
>
>
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