Loud noise heard in Jakarta, meteor suspected

[quaoar]

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1103424619831_12?hub=SciTech

Associated Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A loud noise several witnesses said sounded like an explosion was heard in parts of the Indonesian capital early Sunday.

News reports said an object that might have been a meteor was seen flashing across the sky above the capital but did not make clear if it had hit the Earth.

Several callers to el-Shinta radio station reported a noise that sounded like an explosion at around 7:30 a.m. local time in western districts of Jakarta.

Metro TV station reported a large object, believed to be a meteor, was seen falling toward the Earth at around the same time, also to the west of the city. The report did not say whether the object had hit the ground.

[Just Me]

1. Fascinating info!!! n/t

[toymachines]

2. ufo

:tinfoilhat:

[quaoar]

3. AP update:

Indonesian air force radar detected an unidentified object falling toward the earth at a great speed before disappearing at around the same time as the noise was heard, a military spokesman said on condition of anonymity.

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Police have been on high alert in Indonesia in recent days after several Western governments reported that Islamic militants, blamed for a series of attacks in recent years, were planning more bombings.

[Skink]

4. Cheney??????Yep....

[LifeDuringWartime]

5. if it didnt hit, what else would it do?

see what a mess our planet is and turn around?

[quaoar]

7. Explode in the atmosphere

That's what most meteors do. Only large ones are able to make it through the atmosphere without burning completely up.

[Zynx]

9. Something like Tunguska

IE blow up in the atmosphere or just above ground. Although hopefully not with anywhere near as much force. We've yet to build a nuke that powerful.

[lovuian]

6. Are they sure its a Meteor???

WOW!!!

[Mike Niendorff]

8. damn those space terrorists!

If only we'd invaded Iraq before Saddam could give them WMDs, none of this would've happened!


MDN

[tk2kewl]

10. what ever happened to that incident in china about a week ago

ufo? meteor?

[Minstrel Boy]

11. UFO cited in northwest China still baffling :

World News > Beijing, Dec 15 : Police in northwest China's Gansu province are clueless about an unidentified flying object (UFO) which was sighted by hundreds of people, a media report said today.

The cause of the fireball seen streaking through the night sky on Saturday in Northwest China's Gansu Province has not yet been confirmed, 'China Daily' said in a front-page report.

However, the Gansu Provincial Seismology Bureau recorded that an explosion took place in the suburbs, some 60 kilometres from downtown Lanzhou.

The strange burning object, or what remains of it, had not been found by police, who frantically searched for any tell-tale evidence, it said.

Witnesses in Gansu's capital Lanzhou said a strange shining object swept through the sky at about 11:36 p.M. (2106 hrs IST) December 11, followed by earthshaking sounds like bombing. They also reported that an ensuing tremble was felt within 100 sq km from Lanzhou.
http://www.123bharath.com/news/index.php?action=fullnews&id=44399

[pacifictiger]

12. spacejunk??

[Just Me]

13. Dying satellites.

Great for propanda purposes though,...

,...doncha' think? :bounce:

[koopie57]

14. Jerry Falwell

announced on CNN that it was no meteor, it was the baby jesus coming to help him kill the homosexuals and terrorists.

[VegasWolf]

15. It's the Heaven's Gate crowd returning. n/t

[montana_hazeleyes]

19. LOL

That's a drink spewer!lol

[yardwork]

23. I was thinking maybe Rapture

lol

[daleo]

16. Odd, I thought most of these meteors hit The Green Zone.

"Unexplained explosions" and all that.

[kat21]

17. Wow!! I was at the anti-war protest in Hollywood tonight when -

my brother and I caught sight of what looked exactly like a meteor breaking up. We really expected to hear something about it on the news. This thing went too far too fast to be anything else and was heading from east to west.

[L.A.dweller]

21. Fox 11 news actually covered that vigil

in Hollywood. I couldn't believe how critical they were of the war.

[kat21]

26. That's great to know -

I saw them there last night but did not make it home in time to watch the news at 10:00.

[Griffy]

18. Sorry folk... this is probably real.. metoers hit more often than...

we are told.. search online for this and you'll see that several large impacts have happened in the last 100 years even.. like a nuke sized crater in USSR and even the Chicago fire of the mid 1800's was a meteor, we see that from the dozen fires that all started that same night, including towns on the other side of lake Michigan and 1 town that was totally wiped out!... all same night!

[montana_hazeleyes]

20. Is that the fire

that got blamed on Mrs. o'Leary's poor cow?

[Jack_DeLeon]

22. North Korea testing its new...

ICBM. :P

[CreekDog]

24. I saw that too in Northern Cal. last night

It looked like a green shooting star and it flashed and disappeared slightly above San Bruno Mountain (the mountain just south of SF). It was around 9 or 10 last night, Pacific time.

[kat21]

27. I saw it from Los Angeles - green and to the south!

[NNN0LHI]

25. I heard a loud noise last night too!

I think my wife farted?

Don