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Series of loud booms across Union City, Michigan 'talk of the town'

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The calls started to flood into the Branch County 911 Center around midnight. Each one reporting deafening loud booms and everyone believed the boom happened somewhere close. "We just heard a really loud bang outside our house and me and my kids are really scared, I don't know what it is and now we're afraid to outside," says one caller. "I didn't see anything but I heard a big boom...it was like a big boom like someone was kicking in the door," says another caller. It was the talk of the town in Union City Wednesday, everyone with their own theories on what caused it. "It sounded like a cannon going off is the only way I can describe it, kind of like a thunder boom but it was only the one time," says Michelle Reincke who lives in Union City.

"I think it's aliens to tell you the truth, I think it's aliens coming down to earth see us," says Tomika Dow. And adding to the mystery, this is not the first time. One night last may the booms woke people up in Branch County and were heard all the way to Calhoun and Kalamazoo counties. "It's the same time as last year, we had these loud crashing noises like either an explosion or a sonic boom kind of an earthquake," says Cynthia Shattuck. There were no earthquakes recorded in the area overnight, the National Guard base in Battle Creek says there were no flights there last night.

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Comment: Alien, perhaps - but not the typically thought kind. Elsewhere on the Big Blue Marble there have been almost daily reports of loud booms as well as 'earthquakes' and meteorite explosions. This is just a small sample from the end of last year:

Thousands report loud boom and unusual sounds in Northeastern US: USGS classifies it as earthquake, but was it really an overhead meteor explosion?
Meteor explodes above Devon, England, blast wave blows open police station doors, tremors felt across wide area
Fragmentation and Sonics! Northern California Fireball Meteor +19'42 PDT 17OCT2012 - Unrelated to the Orionids
Slow-moving blue-orange fireball reported over Lincolnshire, England
Meteor with a long gold tail blazes across Alberta, Canada, 15 October 2012
Large bright fireball with orange-green tail breaks apart over Queensland, Australia, 29 August 2012

Something wicked this way comes? Read the following articles to learn more about the immediate cosmic threat:

Reign of Fire: Meteorites, Wildfires, Planetary Chaos and the Sixth Extinction
Meteorite Impacts Earth in Minden, Louisiana - Media and Government Cover It Up
Incoming! Meteor or Comet Fragment Explodes Above Southwestern US, Prompting US Army 'Missiles' Cover-up
Fireball explodes over Russian city: Widespread panic and structural damage, Thousand people injured


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Possible meteor explosion over Tosno, Leningrad Region, Russia?

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© LifeNews Online, Russia
Emergencies Ministry stuff are trying to ascertain precise location of crash of unidentified celestial object wrecked near town of Tosno in Leningrad Region.

Life News publishes this exclusive eyewitness's photo that depicts falling of an alleged meteor.

Local resident was first who had reported about falling of an unidentified flying object from sky. He says this event happened at evening 6 April.

Evgeniy Galiev is resident of small town Tosno located in Leningrad Region. Нe turned to local Emergencies Ministry office and told that he had seen 'dark stripes that turned into bright and rushed down, supposedly from unidentified flying object'.

He provided Emergencies Ministry' stuff that arrived at site of the event photos that had been shot during the event as a proof.

At present personnel of Emergencies Ministry are trying to figure out origin of the effect that has been shot by eyewitness. They are checking flights of light aircrafts that had been performed from local airfields around time of the event.

Spokesman of Emergencies Ministry of Leningrad Region says that they still can't find any fallen object in outlined quadrant as result of preliminary search. Search is complicated because of the area is very swampy.

Source: Life News Online, in Russian (Translated by forum member)

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Meteor sighting over New Zealand?

A reader sent in this video filmed from Te Atatu Peninsula.


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Fireball explodes in the morning sky over Norway

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© Tove HavelandTove Haveland took these pictures in the sky over Hardanger. She had just seen a fireball breaking atmosphere above Norway.
[Google translation]: Paper Deliverer witnessed the fireball that flew over southern Norway very early Wednesday morning. - Very interesting, says Knut Jorgen Roed Odegaard about the pictures she took.

Tove Haveland is still exhilarated by the experience very early on Wednesday morning. While most of Norheimsund was asleep, the paperboy was out driving today's deliveries. Then she saw something in the morning sky.

- It was a little before half past five and I saw the moon in the top right corner of the eye. Then it happened: It was as if something exploded in the sky.

- Then it was just like a ball of fire fell from the sky, it fell straight down and slid slowly down. The color was the same as the moon, but it is not lit up in the same manner, says Haveland.

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Cosmic turkey shoot: Flint, Michigan isn't the only place with mysterious explosions

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The cause of the mystery booming noises Flint residents had complained about may be explained by the secret bomb range Flint police recently confirmed.

For months, years even, residents have reported random loud noises, like thunder or fireworks.

Flint isn't the only place where people have reported noises like this. All over the country are reports of strange noises and loud booming sounds. Usually, nobody seems to know where they're coming from.

Let's take a look.

Utah

In January, a television station out of Salt Lake City reported that "hundreds of people from Weber County to Utah County, and some as far north as Rock Springs, Wyoming reported that they felt shaking or heard loud booms." Experts reported seismic activity in the area, but there was no record of any earthquakes.

Massachusetts

Last November, reports out of Salem, Mass., indicated that "police responded to a report of loud explosions in the area of Bridge Street."

Oklahoma

In January, a local Oklahoma City television station reported that residents in the town of Guthrie had been reporting a mysterious noise around town.

Comment: It's not a mystery, really. Elsewhere on the Big Blue Marble there have been almost daily reports of loud booms as well as 'earthquakes' and meteorite explosions. This is just a small sample from the end of last year:

Thousands report loud boom and unusual sounds in Northeastern US: USGS classifies it as earthquake, but was it really an overhead meteor explosion?
Meteor explodes above Devon, England, blast wave blows open police station doors, tremors felt across wide area
Fragmentation and Sonics! Northern California Fireball Meteor +19'42 PDT 17OCT2012 - Unrelated to the Orionids
Slow-moving blue-orange fireball reported over Lincolnshire, England
Meteor with a long gold tail blazes across Alberta, Canada, 15 October 2012
Large bright fireball with orange-green tail breaks apart over Queensland, Australia, 29 August 2012

Something wicked this way comes? Read the following articles to learn more about the immediate cosmic threat:

Reign of Fire: Meteorites, Wildfires, Planetary Chaos and the Sixth Extinction
Meteorite Impacts Earth in Minden, Louisiana - Media and Government Cover It Up
Incoming! Meteor or Comet Fragment Explodes Above Southwestern US, Prompting US Army 'Missiles' Cover-up
Fireball explodes over Russian city: Widespread panic and structural damage, Thousand people injured


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Spectacular meteor captured on camera in Winnipeg

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© Shannon BileskiShannon Bileski caught a meteor on camera while out at Patricia Beach March 29, 2013.
Manitoba, Canada - With her camera set to a shutter speed of eight seconds, a local woman managed to capture a spectacular meteor display.

Shannon Bileski was on the east side of Lake Winnipeg late Friday night with her astronomy club.

"We saw a bright flash with green explosions ... it was a meteor!" she wrote in an e-mail.

"(I) managed to capture the entry and explosions (look closely and you can see them)!" she wrote.

Flashes of green in the sky turn out to be meteors less often than you'd think, Planetarium spokesman Scott Young has previously told QMI Agency. Winnipeggers get treated to this kind of spectacular skyward event about once a year, Young said.

"I think people are excited to see things that are outside their normal experience," Young said. "We get a lot of calls about 'that light in the sky' which turn out to be meteors, planets, the Space Station, etc. but people are still excited because they just 'discovered' them themselves.

"Humans love to discover things."

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Bright green object seen in Northern Colorado skies


What is thought to have been a bright meteor, streaking across the predawn Northern Colorado sky Thursday, sparked reports from dozens of early birds who happened to view it.

Loveland resident Shawn Kraft caught it as he drove northward on U.S. 287, between Owl Canyon and Livermore, on his daily commute to Laramie where he works for the city as an information technologist.

"Here's what I could equate it with," Kraft said. "You know those little sparklers that kids waved around before they were illegal? It was like that. Green. Bright green. Really bright green, in a pitch-black sky. It took about a second or a second and a half."

The "fireball log" maintained by the American Meteor Society, an online gathering spot for amateur observers, contained nearly simultaneous reports of the same sighting -- a bright green meteor seen between 5:46 and 5:50 a.m.

The reports came from Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.

"It was good-sized," Kraft said. "It's the biggest thing I've ever seen in the sky like that."

A meteor is the name given to the light emitted by a meteoroid, a small rocky object that enters the earth's atmosphere from space, as it burns in the upper atmosphere.

A rare meteorite is a surviving fragment of a meteoroid that impacts the earth's surface. The vast majority of meteoroids vaporize in the atmosphere.

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Florida: Boom shakes windows in several counties

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A sonic boom of some sort caused windows and walls to shake over several counties in North Central Florida Thursday night, and Alachua County sheriff's officials got the explanation that it was "military manuevering of some kind."

Alachua County Sheriff's Lt. Art Forgey said late Thursday night that the "west side of Gainesville flooded our communications center" around 9 p.m. with calls about a window-clattering and wall-shaking boom felt by many residents, particularly those in west Gainesville.

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Yellow blob discovered after meteor sighting in China

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On March 22 in Yongjin, Sichuan, China, Peng Xianyong witnessed a light in the sky. It brightened the landscape as it passed, red and green with a long, streaking tail.

That would have been strange enough, but the next morning, Xianyong discovered four yellow blobs in his front yard, arranged in something that looked like a Chinese character.

He approached one of the blobs and, well, he poked it with a stick. This revealed its peculiar insides, a bloody red and brown. Apparently, it smelled of "fresh plants" and was soft as eggs, but did not "spread" when broken.

It's probably a mold or fungus, but this isn't the first time a strange substance has popped up after a meteor sighting. After the Russian meteorite incident last month, "alien" slime was located at a Somerset nature reserve. And, you know, there's a long history of stuff called Star Jelly, mysterious goo said to arrive during meteor showers.

Source: WCC Daily (In Mandarin)

Comment: Very interesting. Researchers in the UK suspect there was another incidence of 'star jelly' in the UK last month as a result of the meteor Chelyabinsk overhead meteor explosion:Is mysterious green 'slime' found in Somerset wildlife park linked with recent meteor strike?


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22 Mar 2013 Update For March 22, 2013 Northeast Fireball

Here's a heat map of the witness sightings for the March 22nd, 2013 Northeast Fireball.

Here's an estimated trajectory model for the meteor spotted in the northeast earlier tonight. This model is calculated by computing the intersection points of each witness with all other witnesses. These points are then averaged for the starting and ending points of the meteor. Click here for map below to view event sightings page.
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Trajectory For March 22, 2013 Fireball Event