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3 July 2008

THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 02/01/08 to 02/28/08 EVENTS
- 2008 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2008 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2008 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports - Summary
- Following data from Fireball Sightings Log: 2008
  - DATE/REPORTS
  - 01 Feb./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 03 Feb./2 (1 EVENT)
  - 04 Feb./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 05 Feb./2 (2 EVENT) A08
  - 06 Feb./5 (3 EVENTS)
  - 07 Feb./6 (5 EVENTS)
  - 09 Feb./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 10 Feb./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 11 Feb./4 (3 EVENTS)
  - 12 Feb./5 (5 EVENTS)
  - 15 Feb./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 16 Feb./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 17 Feb./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 18 Feb./6 (3 EVENTS)
  - 19 Feb./22 (3 EVENTS)
  - 20 Feb./9 (3 EVENTS)
  - 21 Feb./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 23 Feb./3 (2 EVENTS)
  - 24 Feb./5 (3 EVENTS)
  - 25 Feb./10 (6 EVENTS)
  - 27 Feb./9 (1 EVENT)
  - 28 Feb./14 (1 EVENT)
  - 29 Feb./1 (1 EVENT)
- The goose that survived crashing into a meteorite only to be savaged by a fox! - February 5th, 2008 - 5:14 pm
  A goose survived being hit by a 9lb meteorite and crashing into a car only to fall prey to a hungry fox. A08
  The meteorite is now being studied by researchers at the University of Derby. It is one of only 1,000 asteroid fragments that hit earth each year.
- Ice Chunks Crash Through Woman's Ceiling -7 Feburary 2008
  A Canadian woman narrowly avoided getting hit by several chunks of ice that crashed through her bedroom ceiling Thursday, likely dropped from a passing airplane, officials said.
- Fireball Over Polk County Flordia - 08 Feb 2008, 6:00 PM EST Minutes later, they saw a second baffling sight. Another unidentified streak, much lighter than the first, moving across the sky far in the distance.
  The astrophysicist who runs the planetarium at Florida Southern College in Lakeland disagrees. Dr. Mossayeb Jamshid says objects from outer space fall quicker. It took at least 10 minutes for the fireball to disappear. Jamshid says it may have been a jet that looked like it was on fire because an optical illusion of the sunset hitting its contrail. (Comment: This is not a reflection from the sun onto a jet. (RB)
- Loud "Booms" Heard Over Denton, Texas - February 5, 2008
- Argentina: Fireball possible cause of fires in Las Animas Hill - 05 Feb 2008 17:24 EST
  Last night several witnesses reported to the program Ultima Hora that a "UFO" that fell at 4:00 am behind Las Animas Hill could have been the cause of the enormous and devastating fire that affected hundreds of hectares.
  "It was like a huge fire ball that fell behind the hill", said a neighbor, whose report was confirmed by others.
  A Ronicevi metallurgic worker, whose shift began at 4:00 am, said that the UFO gave off an intense glow and its size was similar to the moon in its full phase.
- Steady Deep Rumble with A Flash of Light - Mount Vernon, Ohio February 8, 2008
- Mysterious booms rock Cape Fear region - February 08. 2008 9:40PM
  Loud booms rocked Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties starting about 6:40 p.m. today.
  Callers from Oak Island, Leland and Supply told the Star-News they heard the booms and felt strong vibrations. One man said he thought his beach-front home was collapsing. Another said it shook her whole house.
  A meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Wilmington said reports of the booms or vibrations were widespread, coming from Rocky Point in Pender County to Leland in Brunswick County.
  The Brunswick County 911 center's switchboard lit up with calls from people reporting explosions or loud booms.
- Fireball Over Polk County Flordia - 08 Feb 2008, 6:00 PM EST Minutes later, they saw a second baffling sight. Another unidentified streak, much lighter than the first, moving across the sky far in the distance.
  The astrophysicist who runs the planetarium at Florida Southern College in Lakeland disagrees. Dr. Mossayeb Jamshid says objects from outer space fall quicker. It took at least 10 minutes for the fireball to disappear. Jamshid says it may have been a jet that looked like it was on fire because an optical illusion of the sunset hitting its contrail. (Comment: This is not a reflection from the sun onto a jet. (RB)
- Arctic meteor 'event of the century - February 27, 2008
  Murray Balsom was trying to launch a weather balloon when a huge fireball burst across the sky over his small Arctic village of Resolute. "This was humungous," he said of the gaseous light show he witnessed 10 days ago(17 Feb. 2008).
  "Had there been a full moon that night, I'm sure it would have covered three quarters of it. I bet you it lasted six to eight seconds before it disappeared behind the hill on the edge of town. There were all kinds of colours bursting out of it. The tail lasted a good two hours."
  An avid skywatcher with a background in meteorology, Davidson suggested the fireball may have been as big or bigger than the one that crashed onto frozen Tagish Lake in the Yukon several years ago.
  That yielded a cluster of rare carbonaceous chondritese - rare meteorites that contain both water and organic compounds. Scientists covet these as clues from the early solar system.
- Meteor streaks across early-morning sky - February 19, 2008 11:50AM
  The reports started coming shortly after Tuesday's first signs of daylight.
  A massive fireball streaked across the Northwest skies about 5:31 a.m. and exploded with a large boom, sending fiery streaks toward the ground.
  Experts say what everyone saw was a large meteor, visible because of a days-long pleasant break from cloudy weather.
- Meteor seen across wide swath of Pacific Northwest - February 19, 2008
  An apparent meteor streaked through the sky over the Pacific Northwest early today, drawing reports of bright lights and sonic booms in parts of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
  Although a witness reported seeing the object strike the Earth in a remote part of Adams County, in southeast Washington, it had not been found.
- Meteor streaks across Montana skies - Feb 19, 2008 05:52 AM PST
  Eyewitnesses from Montana to Washington state say they saw a fireball streak across the sky Tuesday morning. Callers described the phenomenon as bright blue in color, and scientists have confirmed that it was a meteor.
  A private pilot reported seeing the meteorite hit the Earth in a burst of light 90 miles southwest of Spokane in Adams County, at about 6:45 a.m. Mountain time. However, sheriff's dispatchers said they had no reports of damage, injury or a meteor landing in the area.
- What was that fireball that lit up the sky?- Feb 19, 2008 (36 Reader comments)
  A bright white streak in the sky early Tuesday was seen all across the Portland area, triggering dozens of calls to local 9-1-1 dispatchers.
- High Desert Sky Watchers See Exploding Fireball - February 19, 2008
  A meteor was seen streaking across the early-morning sky Tuesday - and even bursting into pieces - across a wide area of the Pacific Northwest, from Idaho and Central Oregon to the Portland area and Washington state to British Columbia - even Montana.
- Witnesses: Fireball in the sky Residents from Judith Gap in central Montana to Spokane, Wash., reported seeing a fireball race across the predawn sky at around 6:40 a.m., followed by a brilliant glow beyond the horizon, leading some to believe the object had impacted nearby.
- So what happened to that meteorite that lit up the sky in February? - March 05, 2008
  Pugh, who is with Portland State University's Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory, believes the meteorite hit somewhere between Tollgate and Elgin. He said its fragments could be as far east as the mouth of Lookingglass Creek and as far south as Summerville. The meteorite's fragments hit with such velocity they could have easily punched golf ball-sized holes in roofs.
  The meteorite's pieces could be as large as a basketball or as small as BBs. They will have a fusion coating created by their explosive entry into the atmosphere. Just below the thin fusion coating the rock's color will likely be significantly different, Pugh said.
  The fusion coating will range in color from brownish black to greenish black.
  "(The small fragments) will look like black olives,'' Pugh said.
- Fireball in sky brings meteorite man to region - 3/5/2008
  Pugh began by showing a few photos of the fireball that came down over southeast Washington and northeast Oregon about 5:30 a.m. on Feb. 19. Pugh said it probably weighed between one and two tons, came down to earth at 13 miles per second and exploded two or three times - between 15 and 25 miles above the ground. He said people saw the fireball in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and northern California and British Columbia and Alberta, Canada.
  The breakup of the meteorite caused sonic booms from Arlington to Lewiston and from Walla Walla to Baker, he said.
  "The explosion was equal to 50 tons of TNT," Pugh said. "So it was a pretty good bang. And you're in the Pendleton area where some folks were literally bounced out of bed by it."
- Eastern Oregonians urged to forage for meteorite scraps - March 9, 2008
  Pugh said that means it likely was a stony meteorite, by far the most common kind. Iron meteorites do not break up in the earth's atmosphere.
  He said some people reported smelling sulfur. A Meacham resident reported a metallic taste in the mouth after the meteorite flew by.
  The interiors are frigid since they just came from space, where the temperature is 200 degrees below zero. Some meteorites found seconds after landing have frost on them, Pugh said.
- Unusual Fireball Over Alberta, Canada - February 22, 2008
  A orangish / yellow fireball was spotted moving North East over Stony Plane / Super Grove, Alberta Canada the brightness was compared to; " a falling star would be pen mark, this was more of a broad brush stroke in the sky."
  I could see a solid black rough edged object falling at a slight downward arc...long orange/yellow tail with a orangish glow from the underside of the object and then it burned out but I could briefly see the black object continue downward on the horizon. No visible explosion from my location, just vanished.
- Ice "meteor" nearly killed our kids - 24 February 2008: 9:07am
  TEACHERS and pupils at a Birmingham school will this week be analysing fragments of "meteor" ice which crashed into a playing field, narrowly missing stunned pupils.
  Yardleys community co-ordinator John Roden, the school's former head of science, said the block of ice was reddish in colour with no obvious odour.
  "The kids thought it was a comet and it flew through the sky before hitting the ground near them.
  "It shattered into several large chunks which we have stuck in the freezer.
  "It was bigger than a shoebox and has left a sizeable hole in the ground. Without doubt, it would have killed anyone it landed on."
  "It was coming down from the sky really fast and melting at the same time, and the droplets were going backwards.
  "It just missed us by a few yards. I thought it was a cake because of all the colours - pink, golden brown and strawberry, but when we went to see, we could tell it was ice."
- Intense Blue White Fireball Seen Over New Market, Ontario Canada - February 28, 2008
  A fireball was spotted moving East to West and was as bright as the moon, far brighter than a star and appeared to be burning up and descending at a steep 60 degree angle. The object was an intense blue white color, brighter than I had seen since 1964.
- Secondary Data
  - Hare-less: Yellowstone's Rabbits Have Vanished, Study Says - Feb. 17, 2008
    However, the WCS study found that no jack rabbit sightings could be confirmed in Yellowstone since 1991 and only three in Grand Teton since 1978.
    See: ANIMALS, THE OVERSOUL AND PREDICTING CATASTROPHES
  - Why are thousands of bats dying in New York? - Feb. 14, 2008
    Mysterious ‘white nose syndrome?spreading at alarming rate
    It is not even clear if the fungus around the bats' noses ?something scientists say they have never seen before ?is a cause or a symptom.
  - Defense Source: Satellite Shoot-Down Doesn't Pass The Smell Test - February 21, 2008
    But a defense source told ChannelWeb that the Pentagon's stated objective in bringing down the NRO satellite was "a pack of lies." The source, a defense department consultant specializing in satellite design, said the fuel tanks on spy satellites like USA-193 are built much less robustly than those on a re-entry vehicle like the space shuttle, meaning re-entry into the Earth's high atmosphere alone would have destroyed the USA-193's tank and dispersed the hydrazine long before it hit the ground.
    No repeat of the 17 September 2007 fiasco wanted.
  - The First in a Series of Mega-Fireballs - NEW PREDICTION: 10/4/06
    I know, you say we have already had some. But not like the one that is coming on or near August 2007. The one that impacted in Norway, for example, unleashed only 3% of the explosive force of the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima. For all of that, it made a rather unimpressive-looking crater/indentation on the side of a hill.
    Eventually, in July 2008, one of these will hit the Aegean/Ionian seas, but by that time it will be nearly the size of a mile-round asteroid. That is assuming the asteroid that hits in 2008 is not Toutatis, but one of these. It is also possible a few of these will vapourise a city or cause unbelievable flooding. I saw an example of one of these "tidal storms" in a dream I had on August 17, 2006, that I will hopefully relate to you in the very near future. I believe it took place in 2008 during a time of major naval battles. This tidal storm was very terrifying.
    As Planet X grows nearer, and for a period after it has passed, this phenomenon will increase, as will also another phenomenon discussed by a number of prophets (John the Revelator, Nostradamus, the Seer of Waldviertel, Ursula Southiel, and others) called "fire from the sky." More on that later.
    July 5 +/- 6 days is the first threat interval of 2008.
  - Canadian Troops To Patrol US Cities As Food Riots Feared - February 24, 2008
    U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have signed a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency.
  - U.S. Northern Command, Canada Command establish new bilateral Civil Assistance Plan
    U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have signed a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency.
  - Middle Class May Be Subject To Food Rations, Warns UN - February 25th, 2008
    Experts warn of food riots as foreign troops cleared to patrol American cities
THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 03/01/08 to 03/31/08 EVENTS
THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 04/01/08 to 04/30/08 EVENTS
- 2008 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2008 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2008 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports - Summary
- Following data from Fireball Sightings Log: 2008
  - DATE/REPORTS
    - 01 Apr./6 (1 EVENT)
    - 02 Apr./1 (1 EVENT)
    - 06 Apr./5 (3 EVENTS)
    - 07 Apr./1 (1 EVENT)
    - 08 Apr./2 (1 EVENT)
    - 09 Apr./1 (1 EVENT)
    - 10 Apr./2 (1 EVENT)
    - 11 Apr./2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 12 Apr./3 (3 EVENTS)
    - 14 Apr./1 (1 EVENT)
    - 15 Apr./4 (2 EVENTS)
    - 16 Apr./2 (2 EVENT)
    - 17 Apr./3 (1 EVENT)
    - 19 Apr./2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 20 Apr./1 (1 EVENT)
    - 21 Apr./1 (1 EVENT)
    - 22 Apr./2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 25 Apr./1 (1 EVENT)
    - 26 Apr./12 (2 EVENTS)
    - 27 Apr./1 (1 EVENT)
    - 29 Apr./1 (1 EVENT)
    - 30 Apr./1 (1 EVENT)
  - Unidentified object flies Canterbury skies - 3 April 2008
  - Did fish die due to meteorite? - 4 April 2008
    Possibly an aircraft.
  - Man 'targeted by aliens 7 April 2008
    A Bosnian man whose home has been hit an incredible five times by meteorites believes he is being targeted by aliens.
  - Officials search for 'explosion' or 'fireball' near Kokomo - Apr 17, 2008
  - Otro meteoro avistado sobre Parana y alrededores
    Argentina: Another meteor sighted near Parana - 17 Apr 2008
    The Asociacion Entrerriana de Astronomia (AEA) [Entre Rios Astronomy Society, Argentina] has announced that on Wednesday 16th April 2008, at approximately 19:30 hours, was observed a highly luminous object that had all the characteristics of a bolide. This object was sighted from Parana, Oro Verde and San Benito. According to witnesses, the bolide was intensely bright, with colours fluctuating between green, yellow and red.
    It followed a roughly north-east trajectory towards the south-west, with an angle of 75 degrees. One observer has stated that the bolide exploded before disappearing.
  - Did a meteorite make mincemeat of North Side abodes? Theories abound. - April 15, 2008
    "Stove creates sonic shock wave?" he asked sarcastically. "That'd be a first."
    He says his house shook as he heard a boom Friday morning, more than a half-mile away from the site of what are now the ruins of two rowhouses. He went outside to see if something had hit his house, and when he found nothing, he realized it was a sonic boom and began thinking of the possibility of a meteorite.
    Unlikely, sure, but not impossible. William Cassidy, 80, professor emeritus in geology and planetary science at University of Pittsburgh, was intrigued enough by Mr. Grebner's account to come down and take a look. I met Dr. Cassidy at his Oakland office and he followed me via Polish Hill to the battered North Side street.
  - April 24, 2008 Fireball
    This very bright fireball occurred over Colorado's Western Slope at 11:51 PM MDT. One witness north of Montrose reported a bright, bluish white object showing at least two distinct fronts as well as a persistent trail..
    The meteor appears to have begun about 18 miles west of Montrose, and ended about 10 miles northwest of Olathe. Any meteorites that might have been produced would probably be found on one of the mesas west or southwest of Olathe.
  - Fireball In The Sky - April 29, 2008
    I get home to process the images to see what I've got, cropped and enlarged the images, turned out quite good actually, something like NASA might have on CNN, well maybe not NASA.. or CNN, but you get the idea.
    Daytime fireballs usually have smoke trails which start at about 50 miles altitude, they usually burn out around 9-12 miles high. It is very rare that any of the meteoroid reaches the ground to become a meteorite because of something called Ablation, which is when the outer layers of the meteoroid continually vaporize due to the high speed collision with air molecules.
  - Secondary Data
    - Load Up the Pantry - April 21, 2008
      I don't want to alarm anybody, but maybe it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food. No, this is not a drill.
      The main reason for rising prices, of course, is the surge in demand from China and India. Hundreds of millions of people are joining the middle class each year, and that means they want to eat more and better food.
      A secondary reason has been the growing demand for ethanol as a fuel additive. That's soaking up some of the corn supply.
    - Food Shortages In US-Japan Spark Fears Of World War - April 22, 2008
      If there is going to be an impact this year, now is a good time to hoard some food.
    - Scientist: Forget Global Warming, Prepare for New Ice Age - April 23, 2008
      He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7 degrees Centigrade.
      "This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Chapman wrote in The Australian Wednesday. "If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over."
    - 'Forget global warming, prepare for Ice Age - April 23, 2008
      The researchers wrote in the journal Nature that the sun's brightness varied by only 0.07per cent over 11-year sunspot cycles, and that that was far too little to account for the rise in temperatures since the Industrial Revolution. Try that sixty degree Earth's core rotation back in 1970. It has been slowing by viscous forces and is now almost matching the Earth's crust's rotation. The resulting heat has disapated.
      Dr Chapman proposes preventive, or delaying, moves to slow the cooling, such as bulldozing Siberian and Canadian snow to make it dirty and less reflective. "
      My guess is that the odds are now at least 50:50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades," he writes.
      I agree!
THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 05/01/08 to 05/31/08 EVENTS
- Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2008 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2008 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports - Summary
- Following data from Fireball Sightings Log: 2008
  - DATE/REPORTS
    - 3 May/2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 4 May/2 (1 EVENT)
    - 5 May/1 (1 EVENT)
    - 7 May/1 (1 EVENT)
    - 9 May/2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 10 May/1 (1 EVENT)
    - 11 May/2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 12 May/4 (2 EVENTS)
    - 13 May/6 (2 EVENTS)
    - 14 May/2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 15 May/1 (1 EVENT)
    - 17 May/2 (1 EVENT)
    - 18 May/2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 19 May/2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 21 May/3 (1 EVENT)
    - 24 May/3 (1 EVENT)
    - 25 May/6 (2 EVENTS)
    - 28 May/1 (1 EVENT) E08
    - 29 May/5 (2 EVENTS)
    - 31 May/2 (2 EVENTS)
  - White Smoke Like Fireball Over New York City, - May 6, 2008
    I am not sure if it was a fireball or a plane but I would like to know if there are other reports from my general area.
  - Tonight 6th May 2008, at 11.17pm.
    I live in the midlands near Wolverhampton - I'd just taken the dog out and said "It's the first clear night and able to see stars clearly... a white thin streak appeared from the NNE and continued for what seamed like 2 seconds at about 80 degrees above the eastern horizon to travel to about 40 degrees above the horizon in the south. It then had grown in size and brightness. Then with the light intensity grown to very bright, it seamed to break up and disappear in an instant!
  - NEADS says loud noise could have been a sonic boom - Story Created: May 7, 2008
    See Comments
  - Scientist: Bright light over N.M. was a meteor - 05/12/2008
    It turns out a mysterious flash of lights over the Sandia Crest was most likely a meteor. The bright streak was spotted just after 2:00 Monday morning.
    Thomas Ashcraft, the man who captured the video from his observatory, says the space rock probably landed in eastern New Mexico or the Texas panhandle
  - Mysterious Fireball Lights Up New Mexico Night Sky - May 13, 2008
    A mysterious flash of lights over New Mexico's Sandia Crest early Monday morning had some residents wondering if they had seen an unidentified flying object. But experts said the bright spot, spotted just after 2 a.m., was most likely a meteor. Video of the flashing light was captured by an observatory near Santa Fe. According to a University of New Mexico scientist, it was most likely a meteor passing through the earth's atmosphere. It's a rare sight for anyone to witness, but the real treasure is finding the meteorite once it lands. "It would be worth something scientifically, for sure, and you know everybody is interested in finding meteorites that come from this fireball event," said UNM research scientist James Karner. Karner said the dry deserts of New Mexico make it easier to spot meteorites on the ground. Thomas Ashcraft, the man who captured the video from his observatory, said the space rock probably landed in eastern New Mexico or the Texas panhandle.
  - One of those flashes May 13, 2008 2:11 pm
    While observing in Virgo last night there was a brief, bright flash. I seem to see these now at about one a week. The time was 1 minute past midnight and the location was somewhere in the red circle. Unfortunately my camera was aimed over to the right a bit. Could this be an Iridium flash?
    How long did the flash last for. An iridium lasts for several seconds usually. According to Heavens Above there was an iridium flare (for my location) in the direction you mentioned at around 00.08 BST ATB
  - Meteorite?lands near petrol pump in Hoshiarpur - 28 May 2008 E08
    Hoshiarpur (Punjab): A ball of fire came hurtling from the night skies and fell in a field adjacent to a petrol pump on the Hoshiarpur-Tanda road here, convincing owner Palwinder Singh that it’s a meteorite.
    A month ago, a similar object had fallen in Hotipur village in Sangrur district, prompting a Geological Survey of India team to visit the site and examine it.
    The unidentified flying object fell in the field in Lachowal area of the district at 8.45 p.m. on Friday, when the petrol pump staff were emptying a diesel tanker, setting nearby bushes ablaze. They rushed there and extinguished it, Mr. Singh told reporters on Tuesday.
  - Australia: Plane, meteor or just a UFO? - 29 Jun 2008
    It looked like a small plane that was on fire and about to ditch in the ocean, Port Macquarie's Luke Williams said.
    To the policeman he spoke to it looked like a meteor or a piece of space junk that disappeared into the ocean.
    To Sea Rescue Port Macquarie it was reported as being a green flare.
  - Secondary Data
    - 100 Explosions on the Moon - May 21, 2008
      Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon flashing at them not just once but one hundred times. New title: 103 Explosions on the Moon.
      "They're explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the Moon," explains Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). "A typical blast is about as powerful as a few hundred pounds of TNT and can be photographed easily using a backyard telescope."
      Meanwhile, back at the observatory, the team has upgraded their original 10-inch (25 cm) telescope to a pair of telescopes, one 14-inch (36 cm) and one 20-inch (51 cm), located at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. They've also established a new observing site in Georgia with a 14-inch telescope. Multiple telescopes allow double- and triple-checking of faint flashes and improve the statistical underpinnings of the survey.
    - U.S. Tests Response To Set of Calamities - May 7, 2008
      Thousands of key federal employees are being whisked from the Washington area by helicopter and car for a three-day test of their ability to run the government from remote locations during a disaster.
      This week's "continuity of government" drill is one of the largest by the federal government since 9/11, officials said. It is part of a national eight-day exercise in which officials are responding to a cascade of nightmarish events.
      "At least they're doing exercises," he said. "It's not enough to design plans; you have to practice."
    - Believing in aliens not opposed to Christianity, Vatican’s top astronomer says - May 13, 2008
      The astronomer began the interview titled, "The Alien is my Brother," by saying that, "Astronomy has a profound human value. It is a science that opens the heart and the mind. It helps us to put our lives, our hopes, our problems in the right perspective. In this regard, and here I speak as a priest and a Jesuit, it is an apostolic instrument that can bring us closer to God", said Fr. Funes in the interview.
      "Jesus became man once and for all. The Incarnation is a single and unique event. So I am sure that also they, in some way, would have the chance to enjoy God's mercy, just as it has happened with us human beings."
    - Vatican: Space aliens might actually exist - May 13, 2008 'This is not in contradiction with our faith, because we cannot establish limits on God'
      
      ALIENS HAVE BOTH WARNED AND HELPED MANKIND SURVIVE COSMIC CATASTROPHIES THROUGHOUT HISTORY
      NOAH'S ARK ?Verification of Alien Contact
      ALIENS (ANGELS) WARNED LOT SODOM AND GOMORRAH - METEORITE STRIKES
      ALIENS (ANGELS) HELPED MOSES DURING THE EXODUS
      UNLIKE CHRIST, THE CHURCH'S AND THE USA'S RECORD ON WARNING MANKIND ABOUT THESE CATASTROPHIC ISSUES IS SORRY INDEED!
      FATIMA RELATED EVIDENCE OF EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL INVOLVEMENT
THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 06/01/08 to 06/30/08 EVENTS
- 2008 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2008 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2008 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports - Summary
- Following data from Fireball Sightings Log: 2008
  - DATE/REPORTS
    - 1 Jun/1 (1 EVENT)
    - 2 Jun/2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 3 Jun/2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 6 Jun/2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 7 Jun/2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 8 Jun/4 (2 EVENTS)
    - 9 Jun/1 ( EVENT)
    - 10 Jun/11 (2 EVENTS)
    - 11 Jun/1 (1 EVENT)
    - 12 Jun/2 (2 EVENTS)
    - 13 Jun/2 (2 EVENT)
    - 14 Jun/29 (3 EVENTS)
    - 15 Jun/5 (3 EVENTS)
    - 16 Jun/4 (4 EVENTS)
    - 17 Jun/8 (2 EVENTS)
    - 19 Jun/3 (2 EVENTS)
    - 20 Jun/1 (1 EVENT)
    - 21 Jun/1 (1 EVENT)
    - 22 Jun/1 (1 EVENT)
    - 23 Jun/1 (1 EVENT)
    - 24 Jun/2 (1 EVENT)
    - 25 Jun/1 (1 EVENT)
    - 27 Jun/1 (1 EVENT)
  - Rare daytime fireball seen over Utah mountains - June 9th, 2008
    Wiggins added, "Meteors are happening literally all the time -- 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most of them, however, are not bright enough to be seen during the day, so it sounds like this was one of the exceptions.
  - Mysterious Fireball Lights Up New Mexico Night Sky - May 13, 2008
    A mysterious flash of lights over New Mexico's Sandia Crest early Monday morning had some residents wondering if they had seen an unidentified flying object. But experts said the bright spot, spotted just after 2 a.m., was most likely a meteor. Video of the flashing light was captured by an observatory near Santa Fe.
  - Fremont, California Fireball/Meteor Sighting - June 15, 2008
  - Bright Green Fireball Reported Over Shelton, Washington USA June 16, 2008
    A green colored fireball was spotted over Shleton, Washington moving towards the North. The brightness was 10 times that of a large firework. "Thought it must be a plane on fire and very close by. Very bright.."
  - Unidentified Object In Sky - Jun 20, 2008
    "The angle of the sun was just right to give you a different atmospheric phenomena that made it look like it was a comet or some other sort of atmospheric phenomena," said NWS' Shawn Liebl. He said that would make sense because the sun was setting at the time the sightings were reported, but said he'd have to have video evidence to know for sure.
  - Fireball at Ayers Rock - 2008 June 28
    To his surprise, the ground around him suddenly lit up with the brilliant flash of a fireball meteor. To his delight, both cameras captured the bright meteor streak. Highlighted in the telephoto view (inset), the fireball trail shines through cloud banks, just left of Ayers Rock.
  - Secondary Data
    - No kidding! Climate change spreads to Jupiter, Mars
      Turbulent storms leaving spots on big planet, ice caps retreating on red planet
    - Solar Cycle 24: An Ice Age Cometh? - June 2, 2008
      This photo is causing a stir among some solar scientists. It's a photo of the sun today, and the sun displays a blank surface, devoid of sunspot activity.
    - The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is “Dead?What Does it Mean for Earth? - June 11, 2008
      In the past, they observed that the sun once went 50 years without producing sunspots. That period coincided with a little ice age on Earth that lasted from 1650 to 1700.
      Geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, said pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory also show that there are currently no spots on the sun. He also noted that the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.