Possible meteor or space junk seen all over the region

[donheld]

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=62596


KUSA - Beginning at 6:15 Thursday morning 9NEWS was flooded with calls from viewers, many of whom said, “I have just seen the most incredible thing ever in my life.”

That incredible thing appears to have been either space junk or a large meteor falling from north to south in the western part of the city. At this time, 9NEWS has not received any reports of personal injury or property damage.

9NEWS spoke with a representative at the Air Force Space Command who said they are analyzing the data and hope to have some official word early Thursday morning. They believe it could have been a meteor or space junk. The Air Force Space Command tracks space junk and all items entering the atmosphere.

Viewers from all over the region have been calling 9NEWS, some as far away as Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, to report their sightings.

[Jacobin]

1. where in the fork is "Kusa"?

:shrug:

[hobbit709]

3. Looks like Fort Collins

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. Denver, actually

but if people from Neb. and Wy. are calling in, that would put it closer to Ft. Collins. :)

how cool.

[Buzz Clik]

7. KUSA is Channel 9 in Denver.

[Double T]

2. Better consult with Chicken Little

[bmbmd]

4. NASA confirms it was

a weather phenomenon.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. weather?

where did you find that? I'm not finding anything on the NASA page. :(

[bmbmd]

29. NASA always says that.

Venus reflecting off of swamp gas, according to Will Smith.

[tanyev]

6. Cylons.

:scared:

[IndianaGreen]

16. If it is metal, they are Cylons

unless they are the newer models, they look like us.

[Occulus]

19. If that's the case, where's the resurrection ship?

Fraking thing is out there somewhere... and we can't see the far side of the moon.

:scared:

[IndianaGreen]

27. resurrection ship is in orbit around Cheney's undisclosed location

which really answers a lot of questions about Cheney.

BTG rocks! :-)

[tanyev]

34. It does rock! We just discovered it.

Had our own lost weekend over New Year's and watched the miniseries, Season 1 and Season 2. Now we will be jonesing until Season 3 comes out.

[Mojorabbit]

46. BTG? n/t

[IndianaGreen]

60. Sorry, a typo. Should have been BSG for Battle Star Galactica

Yesterday I posted something about the homophobe Phelps, but I typed "homophone" instead. I got a lot of our gay DUers all excited. :-)

[hunter]

45. Dare I say it? North Koreans...

Or is that too much like screaming "fire" in a crowded theater?

:hide:

(Shhhhhhhh.... I don't want to give Bush any ideas...)

[SoCalDem]

51. Good God.. They have the technology.. and they are using their space catapult

to throw rocks at us..
(Why am I flashing back to Monty Python)

[smirkymonkey]

55. ROFL!

:rofl:

Run Awaaaay.....!

[Mabus]

56. or the Daleks

trying to revive Davros (again).

[IndianaGreen]

62. I hear the Doctor prefers Democrats

He will save us from the Daleks, who sound like Bush with their "exterminate" cry.

[Junkdrawer]

8. I wonder if this is related....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3039239

:shrug:

[htuttle]

10. Just about to ask the same question

[Junkdrawer]

12. LOL. Drudge...

Just after I posted, I thought "This is the kind of nonsense you find on Drudge" and so I checked and sure enough.....

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. probably not... other than both originating in space...

your link refers to Tuesday night, this was this morning.

2 in one week :)

[Dover]

31. Or this........>

Unidentified Falling Object

Sci-TechUFO crashes in SA2007-1-2 23:13Pretoria - A UFO was sighted at Lephalale, where it was described as a strange object "on an orange cloud, singing like a million turbines" - hitting the earth with a bang at 04:33 on Saturday.
That's according to Leonie Ras, the administrative manager of Lephalale (Ellisras) who witnessed the spectacle at her daughter's farm just east of the town on Saturday morning.

"I was lying on my bed reading SMS-messages when I heard a noise like an Airbus aircraft firing up its motors."

"It was raining but there was no thunder or lightning. The noise grew louder and eventually it sounded like a million turbines screaming in unison," Ras said.

cont'd

http://www.24.com/news/?p=tsa&i=376703

[ToolTex]

13. Maybe this will be the Extinction Event for the rethuglicans.

[merh]

14. Maybe the universe

is spitting out the bad ones that have tried to prematurely rapture. :shrug:

[treestar]

18. That may be Reagan on your house

:hide:

[slackmaster]

15. Darn, Space Junk never falls on my house

Just an occasional handgun bullet from that bad neighborhood on the other side of Interstate 805.

:argh:

[treestar]

17. Time to bring out the tinfoil hats

:tinfoilhat:

[slackmaster]

21. Remember to connect your grounding wire

Without it, a tinfoil hat is useless.

:tinfoilhat:

[rman]

24. why? Meteorites is a natural phenomena.

[Mizmoon]

20. Pilot said he saw a UFO over O'Hare

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0701010141jan01,1,3957154.column?track=rss

Is it related? OOOOooooooWWwwweeeeOOOOOOOO!

[havocmom]

22. The Republicans' Lizard Overlords are looking for housing maybe?

:evilgrin: Since the GOP is losing their grip (in oh so many ways), the head reptiles are making their presence known. ;)

Seriously, it is hubris to rule out the possibilities that there are smarter beings than us in the universe.

[tchunter]

33. thank you kent brockman

[Barrett808]

43. Welcome to DU, tchunter!

:hi:

[Swede]

23. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

I'd like to remind them as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

[tridim]

25. Awesome.. Proof that what I saw in 1988 was NOT space junk

Which was the official explanation issued by the government at the time.

See how the pieces are breaking off as it hits the atmosphere? The object I saw, all the "lights" traveled together and didn't change positions relative to each other as it moved across the sky.

And see how the burning pieces leave smoke trails? The object I saw, there was no trail, smoke or otherwise, there was however brilliant and sparkly multi-colored "thrust" that moved outward from the rearward "lights" at about twice the speed the object was traveling.

Oh, and see how the path of this object is a large degree arc? The object I saw (and hundreds of others saw BTW) moved from slowly from north to south in a perfectly strait line.

Screw the official explanations. :)

That said, I wish I had been up at 6:00 this morning to see it myself.

[BridgeTheGap]

41. The Disclosure Project

Best info on the subject out there:

http://www.disclosureproject.org/

[Ian David]

26. Finally...

[dean_dem]

38. I think we're due for a visit from Klaatu

[jus_the_facts]

28. Hmmm....Mysterious Metallic Object Crashes Into Home In New Jersey TUESDAY.....

:tinfoilhat: :wow: :tinfoilhat:

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/mysterious-metallic-object-crashes-into/20070104063909990003

FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (Jan. 4) - Authorities were trying to identify a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a house in eastern New Jersey.

Police received a call Wednesday morning that the metal object had punched a hole in the roof of the single-family, two-story home, damaged tiles on a bathroom floor, and then bounced, sticking into a wall.

The object was heavier than a usual metal object of its size, said Brightman, who added that no radioactivity was detected.

The Federal Aviation Administration, which sent investigators to the town, did not know where the object came from, said spokeswoman Arlene Murray.

"It's definitely not an aircraft part," she said. "I can't speak beyond that as to what it might be."

[slackmaster]

30. I can't help but think it contains some gold, based on the color

A lot of spacecraft have gold foil or gold-coated mylar parts. A chunk of gold or a gold alloy would be likely to survive re-entry.

[jus_the_facts]

32. Makes one wonder why spacecraft or satellites decided to come crashin' down....

...twice in one week though?! :shrug:

[slackmaster]

36. I believe that is going to happen more often as time goes by

Plus the influence of recent solar flare activity is bound to cause some things to fall. Solar flares heat up the upper atmosphere, which causes it to expand and cause drag on low-orbit satellites.

[jus_the_facts]

40. That's true...since the solar activity has been extremely active outside it's 11yr. cycle....

....the normal cycle has been proved abnormal the last few years...I'm fascinated!! :)

www.spaceweather.com

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

[tinfoilinfor2005]

61. Cute picture!

But the poor thing does look thoroughly humiliated.

[Thor_MN]

54. A 13 ounce hunk of gold or gold alloy?

Not very likely to be found on a spacecraft.

[Evoman]

53. That was a piece of Universe Junk, coming back to the home base

of garbage and junk in the universe...New Jersey.

[flyarm]

57. that was not far from me ..Freehold NJ..Monmouth county NJ

it came through the roof!!

fly

[GregW]

35. credits to Devo...

Space Junk
She was walking all alone
Down the street in the alley
Her name was sally
She never saw it
When she was hit by space junk
In new york miami beach
Heavy metal fell in cuba
Angola saudi arabia
On xmas eve said norad
A soviet sputnik hit africa
India venezuela (in texas
Kansas)
Its falling fast peru too
It keeps coming
And now Im mad about space junk
Im all burned out about space junk
Oooh walk & talk about space junk
It smashed my babys head
And now my sallys dead

[DixieBlue]

37. Maybe it's the UFO from Chicago?

:silly:

[progressivebydesign]

50. I was thinking that, myself! n/t

[pitohui]

39. a meteor just fell in new jersey also see msnbc.com EOM

,

[w4rma]

42. They shot down the aliens who were hovering above the airport earlier.

:P

[alfredo]

44. It was a Fly Purple People Eater

http://www.shebwooley.com/ppe.htm

Purple People Eater


Words and music by Sheb Wooley.

Lyrics to Purple People Eater.

Well I saw the thing comin' out of the sky
It had the one long horn, one big eye.
I commenced to shakin' and I said "ooh-eee"
It looks like a purple people eater to me.

It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater.
(one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)
A one-eyed one-horned, flyin' puple people eater
Sure looks stange to me. (one eye?)

Well he came down to earth and lit in a tree
I said Mr. Purple People Eater don't eat me
I heard him say in a voice so gruff
I wouldn't eat you cuz you're so tough




It was a one-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater
one-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater
one-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me. (one horn?)

I said Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line
He said it's eatin' purple people and it sure is fine
But that's not the reason that I came to land
I wanna get a job in a rock and roll band

Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flying purple
people eater. Pidgeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin'
purple people eater (we wear short shorts)
Flyin' purple people eater
sure looks strange to me.

And then he swung from the tree and lit on the
ground. He started to rock, really rockin' around
It was a crazy little ditty with a swingin' tune
(sing aboop boop aboopa lopa lum bam boom)

Well, bless my soul, rock and roll
flyin' purple people eater.
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple peopleeater.
Flyin' little people eater
Sure looks strange to me. (purple people?)

And then he went on his way, and then what do
you know. I saw him last night on a TV show.
He was blowing it out, a'really knockin' em dead
Playin' rock and roll music through the horn in
his head (clarinet solo) ( Tequila)

[Mizmoon]

47. IT wasn't just fly, it was a phat, chillin purple people eater!

:hide:

[alfredo]

48. That wasn't a horn it was a blunt.

[Dover]

49. Russian spent rocket booster just reported to have fallen in Colorado & Wyoming

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/04/russia.rocket.ap/index.html

[pitohui]

58. ah interesting to know what it was

i once witnessed a satellite breaking up and falling down in chunks, quite dramatic, but it was in an isolated area and i never learned what it was, it was on a low polar orbit so i'm told it was some soviet craft of the day but i never knew which one

it is cool to see and at first when you see several burning pieces tracking across the sky together it is quite spooky, indeed giving the impression of a fleet of alien crafts moving across the heavens

[kitty1]

52. Sounds like the plot to a 1950's B movie n/t

[Seldona]

59. I for one welcome our new alien overlords.

:rofl: