[meteorite-list] Fox reporting meteor shower grounding planes

[Chris Peterson]

There was a bright daylight fireball over northeast Colorado today (20 
June) at about 12:40 PM MDT. I have many reports from Colorado, as well 
as Wyoming, Nebraska, and New Mexico. I've talked to a number of news 
organizations and tried to give them accurate info... it's not easy. I 
didn't talk to Fox.

The fireball was a couple hundred miles from the Springer fire. 
Obviously, a meteor isn't any threat to airplanes, but they operate as 
they operate.

There appears to be no video, no radar, and no reports of sonics for 
this event.

Chris

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

On 6/20/2012 9:18 PM, Richard Montgomery wrote:
> List,
>
> Just now on the top-of-the-hour 8pm pacific-time headline Fox radio I
> heard, as best as I can re-quote,
>
> "Fire-fighting planes in Colorado's Fort Collin's major fire are
> grounded due to what's being reported as a meteor shower.."
>
> Hmmmm...that's got to be a long event....what does everyone thing of
> this???