Plane crash investigations cease as fireball spotted over Alabama turn out to be meteor

Sara Malm
The Daily Mail
Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:58 UTC

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The fireball had been spotted across the sky over Walker County, Alabama, around 1am on Monday morning, and several witnesses called police believing it to be an aviation incident

Alabama police have called off the search for a 'crashed plane' after it emerged to have been a meteor.

A fireball had been spotted across the sky over Walker County, Alabama, around 1am on Monday morning, and several witnesses called police believing it to be an aviation incident.

Deputies with the Walker and Jefferson County Sheriff's offices investigated it as a possible plane crash between Sumiton and Dora, local news reports.

However, a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration has today confirmed that the fireball was a meteor.

The FAA received 'numerous reports' about the fireball, Kathleen Bergen told Fox News' WBRC.com.

However, the Meteoroid Environments Office at Marshall Space Flight Center claims the fireball was neither plane crash nor meteor.

Police units searched an area off the I-22 in Walker County, and a helicopter was called in to aid the investigation

A spokesperson told WAFF-TV, that the light across the sky was 'likely caused by a re-entry of some sort'.

According to the Meteoroid Environments Office's Bill Cooke, the fireball 'moved too slowly and lasted for too long to be a meteor'.

Comment: As usual, the "experts" try to explain any unusual sighting of a meteorite as "re-entry". We wonder when they are going to run out of Russian satellites for that excuse. There fact is, there has been a number of indicators, such as an intensification of noctilucent clouds or rare cloud formations that our atmosphere isn't doing exactly what the experts think it should do, due to a dust loading in the upper levels, for example. As explained in Pierre Lescaudron's book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.