Debris falling in Texas, possibly from satellites

[IndianaGreen]

Source: MSNBC

Debris falling in Texas, possibly from satellites

FAA officials believe debris could be related to satellite collision

DALLAS - The Federal Aviation Administration has received numerous reports of falling debris across Texas, which could be related to a recent satellite collision.

Some of the callers around midmorning Sunday reported what looked like a fireball in the sky.

FAA spokesman Roland Herwig said officials suspect the debris could be related to the collision, but he said that had not been confirmed.



Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29212634/

[IndianaGreen]

1. North Texans among those sighting fireballs speeding toward Earth

North Texans among those sighting fireballs speeding toward Earth

03:15 PM CST on Sunday, February 15, 2009
By RUDOLPH BUSH / The Dallas Morning News

Fiery debris from satellites has been tumbling through the Texas sky on Sunday, leading to public reports from Dallas to Austin of fireballs with smoky trails speeding toward Earth.

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a warning to pilots to be aware of satellite debris falling to the Earth.

Roland Herwig, southwest region FAA spokesman, said that the debris is from a falling satellite but could not directly link it to the reported collision of Russian and U.S. communications satellites.

“It’s yet to be proved it’s those satellites,” he said.

Doug Schmidt of Richardson was driving south on Central expressway near the George Bush Turnpike around 11 a.m. Sunday when he saw a flash of light in the sky.

“It was like a ball of flame with a tail. It looked like a meteor,” he said.

Reports of falling debris have been as widespread as New Mexico. Dozens of reports have come into Waco and Austin, according to published reports.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/021609dnmetdebris.1c083e1f.html

[snappyturtle]

5. I just saw a video from Austin captured by a photo journalist at a

running event. I thought the 'authorities' said this space junk would burn up on re-entry. WIll be interesting to see what it is falling out of the sky.

[Joanne98]

13. Here the link to the video...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/15/texas.sky.debris/

[BeatleBoot]

15. "Video No Longer Available"

mmmm.....

[truthisfreedom]

2. If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now.

It's just a Spring clean for the May Queen.

Trippy. Fireballs and space debris.

[Kookaburra]

6. Okay, they say if you play this backward you get

Stairway to Hell. Does that mean that if you play ACDCs Highway to Hell backward, you'll hear the theme from that Michael Landon show?

Just curious.

[Name removed]

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[rainbow4321]

4. dupe--computer glitched

[DBoon]

7. Is it really satellite debris?

Or is it just sh*t hitting the fan from the outgoing president?

[MannyGoldstein]

8. As Prophesied By Devo

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
...

[relayerbob]

9. No reason at all

for it landing preferentially in Texas, if it is debris from the collision (which is pretty unlikely), it should be falling elsewhere. Satellites, meteors and other space debris drop into the atmosphere all the time, every day, but usually people just aren't paying attention. Since there was a reported collision, now people are ooking up, and seeing things they can't readily explain, want to make a connection.

Texans have been seeing an abnormal number of UFOs in the last year or so also.

[DemoTex]

10. Radar "painted" the Columbia debris as it fell over Texas on 2/1/2003

But that was a massive amount of metal.

[Uben]

11. That brings back memories.......

....I witnessed that first hand...multiple con trails. I had been watching the news and went outside. Knowing what it was gave me an eerie feeling.

[tammywammy]

12. I saw it in person as well

:(

[Xipe Totec]

14. Right over Palestine, Texas n/t

[Ishoutandscream2]

16. Shit, all my right wing fundy co-workers are probably going nuts

It's the rapture time, ya'll!!

[Mari333]

19. He'll be comin round the mountain when he cooommmes...

yeehaw

[hunter]

17. Impressive shot, Mr. Putin...

:tinfoilhat:

[Mari333]

18. its the end of the world

san francisco is next
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JB-YbL2BhvM/SRoa2FJJZ6I/AAAAAAAACN4/hsknUUifu6A/s400/Giant+Jesus.jpg

[dysfunctional press]

20. "satellite collision"...? don't they mean "russian space-weapons test"...?

and a successful one at that.

[Gold Metal Flake]

21. Discarded chem-trail tanks.

Wait, a late update. We are getting word that the debris is, in fact, the remains of a Gayla Baby Bat kite lost by a Bobby Williams of Amarillo Texas which was lost when the string broke in high winds on June 18 1971.

[Piewhacket]

22. OMG, was Mr. Bush injured?

[TriMera]

23. No....

Not if it hit him in the head. :crazy:

[LongTomH]

24. Eyewitnesses across America see fireball falling from the sky.

Source: The Guardian UK

Eyewitnesses across America have reported debris falling from the sky, following last week's unprecedented crash between two satellites orbiting earth.

Wreckage was seen falling from the sky as far apart as New Mexico, Texas and Kentucky yesterday, with some eyewitnesses even reporting sightings of a fireball blazing across the sky.

The reports come just days after the two communications satellites – one American and the other Russian - collided in space, creating a huge cloud of fragments.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/16/space-debris-satellites-fireball

[Jackpine Radical]

25. What an incredibly complex 3-D billiard shot that collision was!

Even if inadvertent.

[grannie4peace]

26. & news is reporting the fireball over texas isn't from the crash

:shrug:

[theoldman]

27. It was not debris from the satellites.

There is no way it could have fallen down that fast. It was a car size chunk of rock according to the news.

[nc4bo]

31. *sniff* Something's fishy about this incident. It stinks whatever it is. nt

[KurtNYC]

28. a Russian and a US satellite "collided"

hmmmm...

What are the chances that they just collided? How crowded could the altitude range where satellites are deployed be given that the surface of the earth is 196,940,400 sq miles and satellites are deployed in a hollow sphere between 124 miles and 22,000 miles above the surface of the Earth.

[remoulade]

29. Geosynchronous orbits are limited to equatorial plane at 22,300 miles up

give or take a few dozen miles. It's actually a pretty crowded neighborhood.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

30. It's just *bush's star finally falling to earth.

Hey- ya knew it had to come true sooner or later!

[skoalyman]

32. bushes chickens commin home to roost

:tinfoilhat: :patriot: