A fast moving meteor lit up the night skies over most of Utah just after midnight Wednesday. Moments later, the phones lit up at KSL as people across the state called to tell us what they saw and ask what it was.
Utahns are still talking Wednesday about what scientists are calling a "remarkable midnight fireball." The source of all the excitement was basically a rock, falling from space. When a meteor enters the atmosphere, it gives off a lot of heat and light.
Folks at the Clark Planetarium say this rock was big--between the size of a microwave and washer-dryer unit.
This is the ghostly picture taken at the former Roe Valley Hospital showing a nurse like figure holding a baby that has put paranormal sceptics in a spin, and sparked fresh supernatural investigations into the grounds.
The photo, taken by a night time LCDI security guard just a few months ago, has been deemed by experts as authentic and reignited examinations into the ghoulish goings on at the former workhouse. The picture was passed onto paranormal investigators at the Paranormal Society Ireland who analysed the photo for two to three months before releasing it. LCDI manager Damien Corr, the first person to be shown the picture, says he was taken aback by the image.
If reports are to believed, on the Utah Idaho border, near the Bear Lake it seems that the Bear Lake Monster is again surfacing and seen. A creature which sometimes resembles like a beast, walrus or a dinosaur was first sighted in 2004. The locals call it the Bear Lake Monster and it originally grew from articles in the 19th century by Joseph C Rich, a Mormon Colonizer in the area.
The Bear Lake monster also appears in Animal Planet's Lost Tapes.
The Bear Lake Monster is believed to be like a huge brown snake of around 90 feet long. It has ears that stick out from the side of its skinny head and its big mouth is capable enough to eat a man. Many say that it has small legs and can swim very fast, even faster than a horse can gallop.
Date of Sighting: November 16, 2009
Time of Sighting: 10:20 PM EST
Location of Sighting: Greenville, Michigan (Near Grand Rapids - See Map)
Description: Listen to Clip of Interview With Witness (MP3)
The witness reported his sighting a few minutes after it occurred. He saw three orange lights in triangular formation moving westward. The lights did not flash or strobe and no sound was heard.
Note: Like most triangular object (lights) sightings at night no explanation can be provided.
Location of Sighting: Stockton, Teesside NE cleveland
Date of Sighting: Monday 16-11-2009
Time: 16:00
Witness Statement: It was over cast all day with no breaks in the cloud, i looked over my friends shoulder while waiting for a train and a flat darker grey object was dropping around 2 miles away (estimate) from the dark grey cloud, rectangular in shape, it then disapeared into the cloud and came back out back and was a round disk shape then tilted the other way and went back into the cloud, I showed this as it was happening to my friend and he seen it also, when it came back out of the cloud again it looked like it was getting closer to the bottom of the clouds and a thought of it crashing went through my head. I also remember it falling tilting left and right but can't remember the order of when that happened.
Location of Sighting: Gretna, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Date of Sighting: 01/11/09
Time: 15:10 approx
Witness Statement: 3 white globes traveling in a triangular formation from the North East to South East then rapidly changing direction to head south West. Definitely not satellites or any recognisable aircraft, difficult to determine height or speed although they covered about 180 degrees of sky in about 2 mins so seemed to be traveling very rapidly. At a guess I would say they were traveling at above the height of a typical cumulus cloud although the skies were virtually clear at the time and it was hard to make a good
Location of Sighting: M9 (polmont turnoff/junction/roundabout)
Date of Sighting: 17/11/2009
Time: 06:55-07.05
Witness Name: anon + hundreds of m9 commuters!
Witness Statement: This looks the same structure craft as S*** P*** reports.
2 bright lights at either side with flashing light in the middle.
This looked at first sight like a distant aircraft coming in for a landing in line with the M9. But as I got closer it became clear it was COMPLETELY stationary and just a 150 ft-250ft above the motorway. I drove under it.
Comment: You can read the first sighting of this object here.
As forecasters predicted, there was a surge of Leonid meteors during the late hours of Nov. 17th. Preliminary counts from the International Meteor Organization exceed 120 meteors per hour.
A remarkable midnight fireball that "turned night into day" over parts of the western United States last nightwas not a Leonid. Infrasound measurements suggest a sporadic asteroid not associated with the Leonid debris stream. The space rock exploded in the atmosphere with an energy equivalent to 0.5 - 1 kilotons of TNT.
Approximately 6 hours later, observers in Utah and Colorado witnessed a twisting iridescent-blue cloud in the dawn sky.
Ely, Nevada sits in one of the most isolated corners of the state. The nearest communities of any size are hours away in any direction.
If you live out here, chances are you drive a lot and you work outside. Away from civilization's light pollution, the night sky is as full of stars as the landscape below is empty. You take note of any thing out of the ordinary.
And lately people here have been seeing some strange things in the eastern Nevada sky.
Highway 93 runs north and south between through Steptoe Valley. Sixty miles north of Ely is Lages Junction. A pair of street lights and the occasional car or truck are the only interruptions to the darkness and silence.
The lights were amber-hued and of varying intensity. Some of them appeared alone, others appeared to travel in twos, but maintained a largely constant altitude. What was odd was that they responded to the light of my flashlight - when lighting them, they would dim, and then relight even brighter.
Luis Vásquez believes that this area is a UFO route. There are eyewitness accounts from people in Paita, Chulucanas and Huancabamba.
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