Mystery Fireball Streaks Across Texas Sky

[f1vlad]

A couple of interesting articles that I decided to share, I know it isn't favourite news media of ours but nevertheless:

Mystery Fireball Streaks Across Texas Sky

Monday, February 16, 2009
KDFW

Jan. 15: A fireball is captured on video raining down near Austin, Texas.

What looked like a fireball streaked across the Texas sky on Sunday morning, leading many people to call authorities to report seeing falling debris.

"We don't know what it was," said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig.


The Williamson County Sheriff's Office used a helicopter to search after callers said they thought they saw a plane crashing, a spokesman said.
"We don't doubt what people saw" but authorities found nothing, said spokesman John Foster.


The U.S. Strategic Command said there was no connection to the sightings over Texas and Tuesday's collision of satellites from the U.S. and Russia.
"There is no correlation between the debris from that collision and those reports of re-entry," said Maj. Regina Winchester, with STRATCOM.


The FAA notified pilots on Saturday to be aware of possible space debris after a collision Tuesday between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The chief of Russia's Mission Control says clouds of debris from the collision will circle Earth for thousands of years and threaten numerous satellites.

Satellite Debris Falls
from Texas Sky

Created On: Sunday, 15 Feb 2009, 1:12 PM CST
DALLAS - Police scanner traffic in Texas was abuzz Sunday morning with reports of fireballs or burning debris in the sky.
Residents in Hill and Navarro counties also reported hearing an explosion or feeling their house shake.


The Federal Aviation Administration's spokesman Roland Herwig attributed the reports to falling debris from a recent satellite collision.


According to the Associated Press, a derelict Russian spacecraft designed for military communications and a working satellite owned by U.S.-based Iridium, which served commercial customers as well as the U.S. Department of Defense, collided over Siberia on Tuesday.


Herwig said airmen were warned that crash debris might fall this weekend.
He said he started receiving calls at about 11 a.m. Sunday from law enforcement agencies across the state. The agencies were fielding questions from people who had either witness or found fallen debris.
“We don’t know what has fallen yet. We’ll find out in a day or so what we are looking at,” he said.


He encouraged residents to call police and use caution around any debris that they may find on their property.


Earlier this week the chief of Russia's Mission Control said clouds of debris from the collision will circle Earth for thousands of years and threaten numerous satellites, the Associated Press reported.




src:Satellite Debris Falls from Texas Sky

 

[Tommy Allison]

Bring On Night Of The Living Dead!!!

It was in Texas recently they had someone hack their road signs to say "Danger Zombies Ahead."

Man, I want it to come true.

 

[dusty]

Thinking of you Tommy,

 

[Stillborn]

I don't see a mystery. That's a meteor. Could be debri from the satelites that collided, but doubt it over it being a simple meteor.

 

[Stillborn]

No, I am not a disinfo agent.