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Impact over Northern Ireland: Hoax or government cover-up?

Jacco van der Worp
yowusa.com
Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:57 UTC
Kinawley, Northern Ireland
© Unknown
On February 13th, 2001, a strange airplane crash was observed in the Southwest corner of Northern Ireland, less than a mile away from the border with the Republic of Ireland. There was no airplane, but despite credible witnesses of what may have been an impact event, the story was quickly squashed as a genuine mistake, and then as a hoax. The manner in which this story was squashed with slashing diminutives begs the question: If this is indeed a cover-up, then why?
BBC News, February 13, 2001
Aircraft crashes on mountain

Police in Northern Ireland are investigating reports that a light aircraft has crashed in County Fermanagh.

It is understood that a plane came down at Benaughlin Mountain near Kinawley shortly after 1800 GMT.

It is believed helicopters are being used in the rescue effort.
One day later the same site had the following report:
Tuesday, 13 February, 2001, 20:56 GMT, BBC News
Mystery surrounds 'plane crash' reports

Mystery surrounds the source of flames and smoke in the sky over County Fermanagh which has sparked a major search operation.

farm house
© Unknown
About 12 people described seeing flames and smoke on the side of the Benaughlin Mountain, near Kinawley, on Tuesday night.

Paul McCaffrey, who raised the alarm with a friend, is convinced he saw something in the sky with smoke billowing from it.

"I saw a dot at the front and a black trail of smoke leading down at an angle towards the mountain," he said.

A British Army helicopter using heat sensitive equipment also flew over the area.

But following more than three hours of extensive searches, nothing was found.

Comment: The author seemed to be having something of a prophetic moment. In the fifteen years that have passed since this article was written, the number of fireballs and meteorites has continuously increased at an exponential rate. It's only a matter of time before one does a serious amount of damage that can't be covered up or explained away.

We wait and watch.

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Bright meteor fireball streaks over Sao Paulo, Brazil

Exoss Citizen Science
YouTube
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 06:01 UTC
Meteor fireball over Sao Paulo, Brazil
© YouTube/Exoss Citizen Science (screen capture)
A fireball visual reported over Sao Paulo on fireballs.imo.net, filmed by Exoss Citizen Science, brazilian meteor monitoring.

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France expands 'FRIPON' meteor all-sky camera network

Traci Watson
Nature
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:15 UTC
meteor france
Still from video footage of a meteor fireball that exploded over the French Alps in February this year
Tracking space rocks that reach Earth will give insight into the early Solar System

Scientists in France have launched an unprecedented campaign to catch shooting stars, an effort that will rely on thousands of volunteers to comb the ground for bits of space rock.

The programme already includes 68 cameras that scan the skies for meteors, which are seen when bits of asteroid, comet or other planetary material streak through Earth's atmosphere. By the end of this year, some 100 cameras will blanket France, organizers say. That would make it one of the biggest and densest meteor-spotting networks in the world.

"If tomorrow a meteorite falls in France, we will be able to know where it comes from and roughly where it has landed," says Jérémie Vaubaillon, an astronomer at the Paris Observatory and one of organizers of the system. Dubbed the Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network, or FRIPON, it was officially inaugurated on 28 May.

Comment: Note how oblivious they are to the possibility that rates of meteorite discoveries rise and fall with rates of meteor debris hitting the atmosphere.

Note also that they're focused on finding actual meteorites, not on using the all-sky network for watching the skies and tracking the increase in meteor fireballs.

But have they even noticed that??

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Meteor fireball captured on dash cam over Sydney, Australia

ClearskiesTV
YouTube
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 06:19 UTC
meteor over Sydney
© YouTube/CLEARSKIESTV (screen capture)
Whilst driving through heavy traffic towards Sylvania on my way to the Vivid Light Festival, I spotted this meteor fireball blazing across the skies of Sydney.

The time was 5:22pm on Friday 10th June 2016.

Captured on dash cam, this meteor must have been fairly large to be this easily visible while there was still plenty of light in the sky from the setting sun and the light pollution from a busy area of Sydney.

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Meteor lights up skies over western Washington


Komo News
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:15 UTC
Meteor over Everett
© Screen Capture YoutubeA screen grab off a YouTube video posted by Darren Clayton showing a meteor streak over the skies of Everett on June 10, 2016.
Several residents of the Puget Sound region reported a bright flash in the sky around 4:30 a.m. and a dashcam video shows it was an apparent meteor burning up in the atmosphere. Darren Clayton was on his way to work around 4:30 a.m. coming from Lake Stevens heading toward the U.S. 2 Trestle.

You can see the fireball on the video around the :50 mark.

KOMO News received several other reports of the flash stretching from Snohomish through Pierce County. There are no reports the meteor made it through the atmosphere.
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Meteor fireball lights up night sky over Klickitat County, Washington

Shelby Taylor
The Goldendale Sentinel
Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:17 UTC
Fireball
A fiery meteor-bright enough to be classified as a fireball-came crashing into the atmosphere over Goldendale on June 3, only a day after a similar fireball lit up the sky near Phoenix, Ariz.

Seventeen reports of sighting of the meteor came from Washington and Oregon residents posted on the American Meteor Society's webpage. The fireball, which is a meteor that is brighter than the planet Venus, blazed across the sky from west to east for over four seconds, according to many reports. The fireball was yellow and orange in color, and developed a green ionization trail as it entered the earth's atmosphere. Unfortunately, the lack of video capture of the event has yielded minimal publicity. Apparently the exploding Arizona asteroid was given more light.
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Meteor fireball streaks over central Poland (PHOTO)


TVN24
Wed, 08 Jun 2016 20:14 UTC
Poland fireball
© PFN72 Krzysztof PolakMeteor fireball over central Poland, 7 June 2016
(Translated by Sott.net)

According to the Polish Fireball Network (PKIM), a very bright meteor fireball brightened the sky over central Poland at 10:47pm on Tuesday night.

According to preliminary data, the event started at the altitude of 84 km and finished 43 km above the ground. Initial speed was 18 km/s. After 2.38 seconds, the fireball burned out and was no longer visible.

Comment: Meteor fireball events over Poland in the last few years:

1 Dec 2015 - Meteor fireball filmed over Poland
1 Nov 2015 - Fireball over Poland captured on video
9 Dec 2014 - Bright green fireball breaks up over southern Poland
20 June 2013 - Huge green fireball with red tail blazes over central Poland
18 Apr 2013 - A very bright fireball over southern Poland
11 Mar 2013 - Second fireball blazes over Poland in four days
4 Mar 2013 - Bright green fireball explodes over Poland, resulting in shockwave and 'mighty roar'
29 Nov 2012 - Spectacular blue-green fireball fragments over Hungary and Poland
19 Oct 2012 - Spectacular fireball lights up night sky over Poland
19 July 2011 - Bright fireball over Poland

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Film captures three mystery explosions and a flash of light that rocked houses and woke residents in Essex, UK

Jake Polden
Daily Mail
Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:11 UTC
After: The man videoed a flash of bright light (circled), which occurred before the explosions were heard
After: The man videoed a flash of bright light (circled), which occurred before the explosions were heard
This mysterious footage captures the series of loud explosions and flashes of bright light that were reported across South East England last night.

The strange noises were heard in Essex and parts of East London and many concerned locals took to social media to look for answers.

One man from Ilford filmed the sky at around 11pm and spotted the eerie flashes of light before capturing the loud bangs, which he said shook his house.

'I have a theory that it was a meteorite,' said the video maker. 'If it had been a land-based explosion there would be damage somewhere but so far no damage.'

'It was too loud to be a firework that's for sure and fireworks don't shake houses. I don't think it's a supersonic aircraft as a sonic boom does not give off light.

'I think it was a meteorite burning up in the atmosphere. This would give off light and cause a sonic boom.'

The Royal Observatory at the Royal Museum of Greenwich discredited this notion, however.

A spokesman told MailOnline: 'This doesn't have the character of a meteor, since such a blast would only occur after a sustained bright light during atmospheric entry - not a quick flash as shown in the video.

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Dino-killing asteroid impact triggered lethal algal bloom

Laura Geggel
Live Science
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 07:12 UTC
asteroid impact
© NASAArtist's illustration of an asteroid hitting Earth 65 million years ago.
The asteroid that killed the nonavian dinosaurs may have also killed countless marine animals after it triggered a worldwide algal bloom, a new study finds.

The infamous 6-mile-long (10 kilometers) asteroid hit Earth about 66 million years ago, creating the Chicxulub crater, an expanse spanning 110 miles (180 km) across and 12 miles (20 km) deep, according to a blog post by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Upon impact, the asteroid threw a vast amount of tiny fragments into the atmosphere, where they became extremely hot from the friction of rubbing against one another. As they fell back to Earth, these fragments created a global layer of silica glass about 0.12 inches (3 millimeters) thick. That layer is now known as the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, according to previous studies.

Comment: For further reading, be sure to check out our "Comets and Catastrophes" series.

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Daytime meteor fireball blazes over St. Louis, Missouri (VIDEO)


St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:53 UTC
Meteor over St Louis
© Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images
Dozens of people reported seeing what they thought was a meteor fall above the St. Louis area at about 11:40 a.m. Monday.

Reports on social media surfaced about the sight, described by some as as a flash that fell from the sky and disappeared a couple hundred feet above the horizon.

Tom Stolze, who runs the website O'Fallonweather.org, posted a video of a bright light falling in the sky (see video below) to the northwest of an outdoor camera in O'Fallon, Mo.

As of Monday night, the American Meteor Society received 77 reports of a fireball seen over Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, and Kentucky. Several of those reports were in the St. Louis area.

"It looked like one of the more expensive fireworks shooting down instead of up. I could have sworn it landed in the field I was driving by!" one report from Wendelin, Ill., in the eastern part of the state, said on the society site.

One person saw the flash above Berkeley: "I saw a streak of white light followed by a burst of yellow/orange before the object disappeared," he wrote.


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