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THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 01/01/11 to 01/06/11
- 2011 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 01 Jan./9 (9 EVENTS)
  - 02 Jan./11 (8 EVENTS)
  - 03 Jan./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 04 Jan./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 05 Jan./4 (4 EVENTS)
  - 06 Jan./10 (4 EVENTS)
- US: A Fireball in the Sky - Jan 2, 2011
  I caught a 'fire ball'in the sky out of the corner of my eye. This is what I saw and took these pictures. It appeared from nowhere, fell for about 2 minutes then disappeared.
- UFO or METEORITE on LIVE BBC | 4th January 2011 | 04/01/2011 Stargazing Live
- Md. astrophotog captures Quadrantid meteor - January 6, 2011
- Secondary Data
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THREAT LEVEL RED 01/07/11 to 01/17/11
- 2011 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 07 Jan./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 08 Jan./6 (5 EVENTS)
  - 09 Jan./2 (1 EVENT)
  - 10 Jan./5 (4 EVENTS)
  - 11 Jan./39 (4 EVENTS)
  - 12 Jan./16 (3 EVENTS)
  - 13 Jan./6 (6 EVENTS)
  - 14 Jan./18 (5 EVENTS)
  - 15 Jan./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 16 Jan./6 (3 EVENTS)
  - 17 Jan./5 (4 EVENTS)
- Ball of fire turns out to be meteor near Oklahoma - 11 Jan 2011
- Huge Fireball Spotted Over Southeast US - Jan 11, 2011
  At roughly 8:50pm local time an apparent meteor was spotted from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida of a bright object in the sky at the same time.
  A sonic boom was heard as far north as Western North Carolina where cloudy skies prohibited the viewing of the fireball. None of the reports in Acadiana mentioned a sonic boom.
  The possible meteor was described as a large green ball (copper composition) with a trailing orange and yellow tail.
- MYSTERIOUS BOOM ROCKS REGION - January 11th, 2011
- US: METEOR OVER THE SOUTHERN STATES - 12 Jan 2011
- Possible Meteor Sighting in Arkansas - January 12, 2011
- Secondary Data
  - Moon Hit by Meteor Caught on Tape - 11 Jan 2011
  - Meteorite Streaks Past Moon - video - 11 Jan 2011
  - Sundiving Comet Storm - Jan. 12, 2011
    "The storm began on Dec 13th and ended on the 22nd," says Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC. "During that time, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) detected 25 comets diving into the sun. It was crazy!"
    Sundiving comets- a.k.a. "sungrazers" - are nothing new. SOHO typically sees one every few days, plunging inward and disintegrating as solar heat sublimes its volatile ices. "But 25 comets in just ten days, that's unprecedented," says Battams.
    Those that did not hit the Sun are about 40 days away from a distance of Earth's orbit and were inward bound at a distance of Earth's orbit about 40 days earlier.
THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 01/18/11 to 03/11/11
- 2011 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 18 Jan./4 (4 EVENTS)
  - 19 Jan./43 (7 EVENTS)
  - 20 Jan./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 21 Jan./14 (4 EVENTS)
  - 22 Jan./8 (8 EVENTS)
  - 23 Jan./11 (9 EVENTS)
  - 24 Jan./5 (4 EVENTS)
  - 25 Jan./17 (5 EVENTS)
  - 26 Jan./10 (7 EVENTS)
  - 27 Jan./8 (3 EVENTS)
  - 28 Jan./7 (6 EVENTS)
  - 29 Jan./35 (8 EVENTS)
  - 30 Jan./11 (5 EVENTS)
  - 01 Feb./9 (3 EVENTS)
  - 02 Feb./5 (5 EVENTS)
  - 03 Feb./8 (1 EVENT)
  - 04 Feb./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 05 Feb./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 06 Feb./13 (5 EVENTS)
  - 07 Feb./4 (2 EVENTS)
  - 08 Feb./5 (5 EVENTS)
  - 09 Feb./9 (5 EVENTS)
  - 10 Feb./4 (3 EVENTS)
  - 11 Feb./9 (5 EVENTS)
  - 12 Feb./4 (4 EVENTS)
  - 13 Feb./12 (6 EVENTS)
  - 14 Feb./317 (4 EVENTS)
  - 15 Feb./11 (6 EVENTS)
  - 17 Feb./7 (3 EVENTS)
  - 18 Feb./11 (4 EVENTS)
  - 19 Feb./6 (5 EVENTS)
  - 20 Feb./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 21 Feb./7 (4 EVENTS)
  - 22 Feb./19 (5 EVENTS)
  - 23 Feb./64 (3 EVENTS)
  - 24 Feb./8 (4 EVENTS)
  - 25 Feb./4 (2 EVENTS)
  - 26 Feb./3 (2 EVENTS)
  - 27 Feb./7 (4 EVENTS)
  - 28 Feb./9 (7 EVENTS)
  - 01 Mar./14 (4 EVENTS)
  - 01 Mar./3 (1 EVENTS)
  - 02 Mar./7 (2 EVENTS)
  - 03 Mar./11 (5 EVENTS)
  - 05 Mar./16 (4 EVENTS)
  - 06 Mar./5 (4 EVENTS)
  - 07 Mar./6 (6 EVENTS)
  - 08 Mar./5 (3 EVENTS)
  - 09 Mar./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 10 Mar./7 (2 EVENTS)
  - 11 Mar./3 (3 EVENTS)
- Meteorite may have caused earth to move in Big Bang - 18/01/2011
- Search on for 'huge' meteorite - 19 January 2011
- Bright meteor streaks across Chicago sky - January 19, 2011 An unusually bright shooting star shot across the sky Wednesday night, prompting sighting reports from the Chicago area to Indiana, a local astronomer said.
  A green-tinted burst was reported by amateur astronomers in LaPorte, Ind., just after 8 p.m.., said Adler Planetarium Astronomer Chris Lintott.
- Two Major Fireballs Over North America - January 19 The American Meteor Society has received 39 reports of seven separate fireball events over North America on January 19th. Two of these were widely seen events. Both of these events occurred near 21:00 EST. The first occurred over the northern Midwest and southern Canada. There is some wide scattered timing of this event and the possibility exists that this may be more than one fireball. The second occurred over the southeastern states and was seen from Florida north to North Carolina. There is good agreement for the timing plus it seems to been a bit brighter with a majority of those reporting that the peak brightness exceeded that of the full moon.
- Big, green and glowing: Was it a meteor seen in mid-Michigan and other states? - January 20, 2011
  Susan said it did not drop like a stone and Terry Guernsey, who said he has seen shooting stars and meteorites, hadn’t seen anything like this.
  “It did not come straight down. It was sort of diagonal,?she said. “It was oblong shape and somewhat dark in the middle. It was big.?
- Meteorite Reported This Morning?.Historical Viewing-Area Meteorites - January 21st, 2011
- 'Fireball' soars across Penarth - 22nd January 2011
- DID YOU SEE THAT FIREBALL? - 23 Jan 2011
  Spaceweather.com is seeking reports of a possible fireball or other bright lights in the sky over North America on Jan. 18th around 4 am EST. The area of particular interest extends from Lake Michigan to southern parts of Ontario and upper New York state.
- Bolide sighting near Geislingen (Germany) on Jan. 8th, 2011
  Jan. 8th, 2011, at 17:51h local time, a bolide stroke across the evening sky in southern Germany. The bolide was witnessed by many, and captured by at least two cameras in Switzerland and Austria. Also roaring sounds and thunder were reported.
- 'Boom' Heard Across SE Part Of Metro - January 27, 2011
  OKLAHOMA CITY -- A loud 'boom' was heard by Oklahomans on Thursday morning, but officials confirmed that it was not an earthquake.
- Dome of the Rock UFO and Kazakhstan Comet - Something Chaotic This Way Comes - 31 Jan 2011
  Strangely enough at exactly the same time (all three were filmed at 11pm UTC on the 27th Jan.), another interesting aerial phenomena was being recorded at least 1000kms to the North East in Kazakhstan...
  First of all, the above video shows something in the sky that bears all the hallmarks of a comet. That is to say, it was not a relatively small chunk of rock that burns as a fiery ball as it enters the atmosphere and either detonates with a 'boom' or hits the ground. This was a much larger body and therefore potentially much more dangerous. But what kind of danger can comets that don't actually impact the earth pose?
  They can still inject dust into the atmosphere that blocks sunlight to a degree.
- Another fireball in Irish skies - 28 January 2011
  A fireball has blazed across Irish skies for the second time in ten days.
  Astronomy Ireland says a piece of an asteroid or comet entered the Earth's atmosphere over Ireland and blew apart between 6am and 7am.
- US: Woman Films Object Shooting Across Sky - 28 Jan 2011
  UFO over Galveston? Fireball?
- Meteor Sighting Reported Over Cambridge - January 31, 2011
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A Somerville photographer captured a photo of what he believes was a meteor streaking across the sky over Harvard Square Saturday night
  At around 8:30 p.m., he said he found himself in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank building, and that's when he captured the picture.
  Massachusetts residents in Worcester, Beverly, Newburyport and Marblehead also reported seeing what they believe was a meteor.
  “It was a bright white fireball, about as big as the tip of your pinkie at arms length. The red tail turned to green and it dissipated,?
  
  Meteor streaking across the sky over Harvard Square
- UFO/Meteor Sighting Over India Confirmed by Pilots - January 26th 2011
- A fireball fell from the sky and lit the woods near Bjelovar Croatia - 07 Feb 2011
  
  A fireball fell from the sky and lit up the woods near Bjelovar!
- WHAT IS THIS? GERMANY FEBRUARY 11 2011
- Meteor Report Over Philly Seems More Likely - 14 Feb 2011
- Daytime fireball roughly a 5-ton meteor, NASA estimates - Feb. 15, 2011
  Early Monday afternoon, a bright object flashed across the sky before vanishing with a flash, according to scores of eyewitnesses from Virginia to Massachusetts.
  It might have been 5 feet in diameter with a weight of more 5 metric tons, judging from reports that it blazed as bright as a full moon, said NASA scientist Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center.
  Eyewitness reports put the time of Monday's (14 Feb, 2011) fireball around 12:35 to 12:45 p.m. Eastern time.
- Large fireball seen across 5 northeastern U.S. states - February 16, 2011
  Around 12:30 p.m. Monday a fireball appeared in the sky over Pennsylvania, traveling east for hundreds of miles. The Internet lit up with reports of sightings from people in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. H.L. Devore says he was in his office in Ridgefield, N.J., looking out of the window when he saw it and said to himself, “What the heck is that?? Scientists say it most certainly was a large meteor, a piece of an asteroid or a comet that falls through the earth’s atmosphere. This latest meteor, one scientist says, was probably the size of a car and from its trajectory likely landed somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. Professor Jon Friedrich says while meteors fall to earth on a daily basis, “It is unusual to see one so bright in the middle of the day.?
- Streaking asteroid fireball sets morning skyline alight over Calgary - February 16, 2011
  
  Space gave Canada a Valentine's Day rock on Monday when a piece of asteroid lit up the Calgary morning skyline.
  Niel Beckie was travelling westbound on Glenmore Trail just under Crowchild Trail around 6: 55 a.m. when he saw a flash.
  Beckie said he witnessed a very large blue-green fireball that broke into pieces before fading out.
- Breaking News: Italy Bolide Meteor Fireball 18FEB2011
- Second Bright Fireball In Ten Days Observed Over Italy - 19 Feb 2011
- Astronomers investigating meteor-like object over Colorado - Feb 22, 2011
  9NEWS started receiving reports of a bright light in the sky over Colorado around 6 p.m. Tuesday. The description of what people saw and the location in the sky varies, but it was seen be numerous people along the Front Range.
- Sightings of a Fireball Streaking Across SoCal - February 24, 2011
  The Valley is abuzz with sightings of a fireball streaking through the sky at about 8 p.m. Wednesday.
- Comet Spiral Russia February 26, 201
- UFO Spiral Russia 2011 - Feb 27, 201
- Fireball Over Italy - 8th March
- Fireball UFO photographed in Illinois - 11 Mar 2011
- Secondary Data
  - WA meteorite excites scientists - January 22, 2011
  - 2011 CQ1 - Very Close Approach - February 04, 2011
    The newly discovered object, officially designated 2011 CQ1, will make a close Earth approach today February 04, 2011 around 19:40UT at ~0.03(LD)/0.00008(AU) or 11855 km.
    2011 CQ1 Perigee 2011 Feb 4.818749 TT = 19:38:59 (JD 2455597.318749)
    Epoch 2011 Feb 4.8 TT = JDT 2455597.3 Find_Orb
    q 11855.6869km (2000.0) P Q
    H 32.1 G 0.15 Peri. 156.15870 -0.32177738 -0.84067340
    Node 92.60696 -0.92360962 0.17747398
    e 1.7936521 Incl. 25.85075 -0.20833766 0.51163581
    From 11 observations 2011 Feb. 4 (6.3 hr); mean residual 0".362.
THREAT LEVEL ORANGE 03/12/11 to 03/22/11
- 2011 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 12 Mar./9 (5 EVENTS)
  - 13 Mar./4 (3 EVENTS)
  - 14 Mar./22 (3 EVENTS)
  - 16 Mar./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 17 Mar./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 18 Mar./7 (6 EVENTS)
  - 20 Mar./3 (1 EVENT)
  - 21 Mar./2 (1 EVENT)
  - 22 Mar./24 (1 EVENT)
- Secondary Data
  - 9.1 Japan Quake 11 March 2011 - hmmm!
THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 03/23/11 to 05/16/11
- 2011 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 23 Mar./52 (6 EVENTS)
  - 24 Mar./15 (5 EVENTS)
  - 25 Mar./5 (5 EVENTS)
  - 26 Mar./7 (4 EVENTS)
  - 27 Mar./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 28 Mar./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 29 Mar./6 (5 EVENTS)
  - 30 Mar./3 (2 EVENTS)
  - 32 Mar./4 (3 EVENTS)
  - 01 Apr./4 (3 EVENTS)
  - 02 Apr./5 (2 EVENTS)
  - 03 Apr./3 (2 EVENTS)
  - 04 Apr./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 05 Apr./15 (3 EVENTS)
  - 06 Apr./32 (8 EVENTS)
  - 07 Apr./7 (5 EVENTS)
  - 08 Apr./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 09 Apr./45 (6 EVENTS)
  - 10 Apr./20 (7 EVENTS)
  - 11 Apr./17 (6 EVENTS)
  - 12 Apr./7 (6 EVENTS)
  - 13 Apr./21 (6 EVENTS)
  - 14 Apr./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 16 Apr./9 (5 EVENTS)
  - 17 Apr./5 (3 EVENTS)
  - 18 Apr./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 19 Apr./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 20 Apr./12 (3 EVENTS)
  - 21 Apr./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 22 Apr./9 (3 EVENTS)
  - 23 Apr./9 (3 EVENTS)
  - 25 Apr./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 27 Apr./5 (2 EVENTS)
  - 29 Apr./46 (5 EVENTS)
  - 30 Apr./22 (6 EVENTS)
  - 01 May/5 (4 EVENTS)
  - 02 May/1 (1 EVENT)
  - 03 May/2 (1 EVENT)
  - 04 May/1 (1 EVENT)
  - 05 May/3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 06 May/2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 07 May/7 (4 EVENTS)
  - 08 May/4 (4 EVENTS)
  - 11 May/4 (4 EVENTS)
  - 12 May/10 (2 EVENTS)
  - 13 May/5 (5 EVENTS)
  - 14 May/10 (6 EVENTS)
  - 15 May/5 (3 EVENTS)
  - 16 May/1 (1 EVENT)
- Large meteor seen across NZ - March 31, 2011
  A meteor that illuminated the sky with a brilliant blue and white light as it exploded over New Zealand last night was likely to have been the size of a desk.
  Reports of a bright flashing light in the sky about 11pm were received from Auckland to as far south as Wellington while a sonic boom was heard by many people near Raglan.
  Stardome Observatory astronomer and Auckland Astronomical Society president Grant Christie said that was likely caused by a large meteor, or bolide, at least 1m in diameter.
- Large meteor seen across NZ - April 7, 2011
- RIPPING FIREBALL - April 5th
  There was a rippingly fine fireball over north central New Mexico on April 5th at 01:50 am MDT," reports amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft. "Signals from distant radio stations bounced off the meteor's trail as it shredded the ionosphere. Here is a movie I made with the radio echo in stereo at two frequencies. The full radio reflection lasted more than two minutes." [NASA
- WHAT'S UP IN SPACE - Friday, Apr. 8, 2011
  TENNESSEE FIREBALL:
  Space rocks have landed in Tennessee. That's the conclusion of researchers who recorded a brilliant fireball streaking over the Smoky Mountain state on Wednesday evening. Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office reports: "On April 6th at 8:21:57 CDT, NASA all-sky meteor cameras detected a very bright fireball moving north across the state of Tennessee. First detected 52 miles above the Arnold Air Force base near Tullahoma, the meteor was brighter than crescent Moon and was approximately 2 feet in diameter, with a weight of 200 lbs. It was last recorded 30 miles above the town of Woodbury, Tennessee, moving at a speed of approximately 9 miles per second (32,400 mph)."
  Cooke continues: "The NASA Meteoroid Environment Office has reasonable confidence that some fraction of this meteor survived to the ground as one or more meteorites. Calculations are underway to determine the general impact location, which may lie close to the Kentucky border. Eyewitnesses to the fireball are encouraged to make a report to the American Meteor Society or to the Meteoroid Environment Office."
  The smart cameras of Cooke's fireball network are able to calculate the orbits of incoming fireballs and backtrack their trajectories into the solar system. "The orbit of this interloper indicates that it came from the Asteroid Belt, with an aphelion well beyond the orbit of Mars."
- BRIGHT FIREBALL LEADS TO METEORITE SEARCH IN TENNESSEE - Apr 08, 2011
  Did you see a bright flash in the sky over Tullahoma, Tenn., last night? Have we got a scavenger hunt for you...
  At approximately 08:21:57 p.m. CDT on April 6, 2011, NASA all-sky meteor cameras located at the University of Tennessee Space Institute, in conjunction with the Hands-On Science Center in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and at the Walker County Science Center in northwest Georgia detected a very bright fireball moving north across the state of Tennessee.
- LARGE FIREBALL EVENT REPORTED 4/6/11 - 7 Apr 2011
  Last night (April 6) at 8:21:57 CDT (9:21:57 EDT), NASA all-sky meteor cameras located at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (in conjunction with the Hands-On Science Center in Tullahoma, Tennessee) and at the Walker County Science Center in northwest Georgia detected a very bright fireball moving north across the state of Tennessee. First detected 52 miles above the Arnold Air Force base near Tullahoma, the meteor was brighter than crescent Moon and was approximately 2 feet in diameter, with a weight of 200 lbs. It was last recorded 30 miles above the town of Woodbury, Tennessee, moving at a speed of approximately 9 miles per second (32,400 mph).
  The NASA Meteoroid Environment Office has reasonable confidence that some fraction of this meteor survived to the ground as one or more meteorites. Calculations are underway to determine the general impact location, which may lie close to the Kentucky border. Eyewitnesses to the fireball are encourage to make a report to the American Meteor Society (www.amsmeteors.com) or to the Meteoroid Environment Office.
  More information will be forthcoming at the completion of the impact zone calculations, which may take some time. The orbit indicates that this interloper was from the Asteroid Belt, with an aphelion well beyond the orbit of Mars.
  Note: A 3rd NASA camera, located at the Tellus Science Center in Cartersville, Georgia, also recorded this event low on the northern horizon. This data is being used to refine the trajectory determination.
- April 9th Fireball
  I caught one that was among the most interesting I’ve seen. It was a slow moving, bright green one with a nice smoke trail that was easily as bright as Venus from where I saw it in the suburbs of St. Louis. I tweeted about it briefly but didn’t think much more about it until I got a response from another person that saw it along with a link to a collection of observations. As nice as the observation was for me, it was nothing compared to the view some others got.
  At the Lunar Meteorite Hunters blog, several reports have been collected. Several of these reports from various locations in Ontario report the meteor being as bright as a full moon and lighting up the entire sky! One even notes that they could hear a fizzling noise, a rare phenomenon thought to occur when the passage through the atmosphere creates an ionized path that interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field creating radio waves that could induce physical vibrations in the air around the observer. Another comment reports a sonic boom around the same time (although sonic booms would occur well after the meteor was visible due to the sluggish nature of sound waves, much like the delay between lightning and thunder).
- Fireball of 10 April 2011 over N Italy - Bolide del 10 Aprile 2011 sopra il nord Italia
- Singapore - Rare sight: 'Fireball' streaks across evening sky - 18 Apr 2011
  Two STOMPers caught sight of what seemed to be a meteor streaking across the sky last evening (Apr 17).
- meteorobs) Super-size fireball April 17, 2011 - New Mexico
  
  April 17, 2011at 01:42 am MDT. 1 MB Movie with sound.
- Breaking Meteor News...Major Large Bright Green Fireball Bolide AL-SC-GA-FL 10-10:15 PM EDT 29 APR 2011
  ...Sonic Booms Reported
- Fireball Meteor or space debris over Doha, Qatar / Saudi Arabia ~9:00pm 30 APR 2011
- Green fireball reported over Jacksonville, Florida - April 30th, 2011
- Fireball confirmed Friday night with more trails of fire in the sky this week! A new month will bring a new weather pattern! - May 1, 2011
- Green fireball reported over Lafayette, Indiana - May 2nd, 2011
- Meteorite lands on roof, northern Poland - 04.05.2011
- Possible meteor or space debris ‘event’ seen, felt across South - May 1, 2011
  A meteorite or space debris may have been the cause of fireballs reportedly seen in South Georgia skies Friday night and the resulting impact felt from one end of Lowndes County to the other.
  Meanwhile, similar reports of fireballs were filed throughout the state and in other states, according to the American Meteor Society.
- Fireball UFO photographed in Scotland - May 10, 2011
  A picture of a UFO was taken yesterday by a photographer in Melrose, Scotland. The photographer, who asked to remain anonymous, supplied the UFO photo to the Border Telegraph. He described the object in the picture as “moving pretty fast at around 45 degrees towards the sky – as you can see by the close up it appears to have a tail showing the direction.”
- Meteor likely caused mysterious boom - 11 May 2011
  "It almost felt like an earthquake and then I had to think about it. We're in Virginia Beach we don't get earthquakes," said Pam Trotter.
  10 On Your Side called the military, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Energy. Turns out the answer may be found out of this world.
  "It's most consistent with a meteor coming into the Earth's atmosphere and creating a large sonic boom," said NASA scientist Dr. Joe Zawodny.
  Dr. Zawodny said sonic booms are not uncommon. Two years ago, hundreds of people across the region heard a similar boom most likely caused by a meteor.
- UPDATED: Officials Believe Meteorite Hit Basking Ridge Lawn - May 11, 2011
  Small meteorite believed to have created a trench in township front yard last Friday morning.
  Township officials believe a small meteorite impacted the front lawn of a township home last Friday morning at about 11:35 a.m., creating a trench and spewing dirt and debris on the lawn, driveway and street near the residence.
- Secondary Data
  - Giant asteroid heading close to Earth - 05 May 2011
    A giant asteroid weighing 55 million tonnes will just miss the Earth later this year, Nasa experts have predicted.
    The rock, which is quarter of a mile across, will pass between our planet and the moon in November and will be visible with small telescopes.
    If it were to hit the earth, the asteroid, named YU55, would have an impact equivalent to 65,000 atom bombs and would leave a crater more than six miles wide and 2,000ft deep.
    Passing by at a distance of just 201,000 miles, the asteroid will be the largest object ever to approach the earth so close.
    Nasa has officially labelled it a Potentially Hazardous Object, but have stressed there is no danger of impact while on its current course.
  - COMET AND CME: - May 11th, 2011
    A comet dove into the sun on May 11th and seemed to trigger a massive eruption-- emphasis on seemed. Watch the movie, then scroll down for further discussion.
    THE COMET AND THE CME:
    A comet goes in; a CME comes out. Coincidence? Probably, yes, the sequence was coincidental. The comet disintegrated as much as a million kilometers above the stellar surface. There's no known way that the wispy, vaporous remains of a relatively lightweight comet could cause a billion-ton cloud of hot plasma to fly away from the sun at 400 km/s (the observed speed of the CME). Moreover, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the eruption that did propel the CME into space. There's no comet in the field of view of this must-see movie.
THREAT LEVEL ORANGE 05/17/11 to 05/27/11
- 2011 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 17 May/2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 18 May/2 (1 EVENT)
  - 20 May/28 (4 EVENTS)
  - 21 May/5 (24 EVENTS)
  - 22 May/11 (8 EVENTS)
  - 23 May/10 (4 EVENTS)
  - 24 May/2 (1 EVENT)
  - 25 May/3 (2 EVENTS)
  - 26 May/5 (4 EVENTS)
  - 27 May/4 (4 EVENTS)
- Huge meteorite crosses Cranbrook sky - May 17, 2011
  Canada - Witnesses describe a fireball that looked as big as the moon
  Physics lab technician Rick Nowell described the sky as the meteor passed over us.
  "The dark night sky of Cranbrook was lit up like daylight early Saturday morning at 2:17 a.m. when a huge meteor rocketed overhead. Appearing as a dim dot at first, high to the north, it rapidly grew into a big, white ball as big as the moon, with a tail behind it," described Nowell
  Eyewitnesses in Cranbrook and Nelson heard a distant boom, like a far-off thunderstorm, after the meteor sank over the horizon. That's an indication that the meteor broke apart and fell to the ground somewhere between the two cities, according to Dr. Alan Hildebrand, head of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre at the University of Calgary
- Meteorite may have landed along Kootenay Lake - May 18, 2011
  A meteorite that flew over the Kootenays on Saturday morning was seen in Nelson and caught on video by a camera on the roof of the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook.
  It lit up the night sky at 2:17 a.m., according to physics lab technician Rick Nowell.
  “Appearing as a dim dot at first, high to the north, it rapidly grew into a big, white ball as big as the moon, with a tail behind it,” he says.
  Most witnesses described a greenish blue orb that looked as big as the moon. It lit up the sky as bright as day, and one person even said the automatic street lights switched off for a few minutes as they registered the light.
  Witnesses in Cranbrook and Nelson heard a distant boom, like a far-off thunderstorm, after the meteor sank over the horizon — an indication the meteor broke apart and fell to the ground somewhere between the two cities, according to Dr. Alan Hildebrand, head of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre at the University of Calgary .
- NASA SKY CAMERAS CAPTURE MAN-SIZED METEOR OVER MACON, GA - 23 May 2011
  May 20, 2011, at 9:47 p.m. CDT, a six-foot diameter fragment of an unknown comet entered the atmosphere approximately 66 miles above the city of Macon, Ga., traveling northwest at a speed of some 24 miles per second (86,000 mph). At this velocity, the boulder-sized "dirty snowball" possessed an energy or striking power somewhere between 500-1000 tons of TNT.
- Secondary Data
  - WARNING Christian Doomsday Cultists plan RAPTURE on 21st May 2011
  - Harold Camping Thinks the World is Ending This Weekend (Just Like He Did in 1994) - May 19 2011
    Here's his reasoning:
    
    1. According to Camping, judgment day should occur 7,000 years after the Flood. Biblical scholars claim the Flood took place May 21 of 4,990 B.C. God told Noah to warn the people 7 days before the flood and using a Bible passage 2 Peter 3:8, "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day," Camping treats each of the days as a thousand years.
    
    3. Numerology, once again, comes into the picture -- Christ was killed on April 1 33 A.D., that is 722,500 days from May 21, 2011. 722,500 is the product of this equation: (5 x 10 x 7)^2. These numbers apparently mean something special. Five is atonement, ten completeness and 17 heaven.
    
    What if the numbers in the equation had been cubed instead of squared, though?
    Noah’s Great Flood occurred between 3195 and 3201 BC. But there was a Great Flood when the waters of the Mediterranean broke through the straights of the Bosporus about 5000 BC. Some scientists have linked the 7,000-year-old event, thought to have been caused by waters bursting through from the Mediterranean Sea, to the Biblical story of Noah.
THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 05/28/11 to 06/30/11
- 2011 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2011 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 28 May/3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 29 May/46 (5 EVENTS)
  - 30 May/2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 31 May/1 (1 EVENT)
  - 01 JUN/2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 02 JUN/17 (3 EVENTS)
  - 03 JUN/13 (5 EVENTS)
  - 04 JUN/5 (4 EVENTS)
  - 06 JUN/3 (2 EVENTS)
  - 07 JUN/2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 08 JUN/2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 09 JUN/1 (1 EVENT)
  - 10 JUN/10 (5 EVENTS)
  - 12 JUN/1 (1 EVENT)
  - 14 JUN/6 (3 EVENTS)
  - 15 JUN/12 (3 EVENTS)
  - 16 JUN/1 (1 EVENT)
  - 17 JUN/2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 18 JUN/5 (3 EVENTS)
  - 19 JUN/2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 20 JUN/38 (4 EVENTS)
  - 21 JUN/9 (6 EVENTS)
  - 22 JUN/1 (1 EVENT)
  - 23 JUN/2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 24 JUN/6 (5 EVENTS)
  - 25 JUN/12 (8 EVENTS)
  - 26 JUN/5 (5 EVENTS)
  - 27 JUN/2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 28 JUN/3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 29 JUN/14 (6 EVENTS)
  - 30 JUN/1 (1 EVENT)
- Man-size meteor lights up Georgia sky - 6/2/2011
  The meteor was caused by a human-size chunk of an unknown comet. It was the brightest meteor yet recorded by NASA's fireball-observing network — based at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. — in its nearly three years of operation, officials said.
  The 6-foot-wide (1.8-meter) space rock barrelled into Earth's atmosphere at 10:47 p.m. EDT on May 20 (0247 GMT on May 21), about 66 miles (106 kilometers) above the city of Macon, Ga.
  When it entered the atmosphere, the comet chunk was traveling northwest at about 86,000 mph (138,404 kph), researchers said. At this velocity, the boulder-size "dirty snowball" possessed an energy or striking power somewhere between 500 and 1,000 tons of TNT. But that striking power was never realized on the ground. The Macon meteoroid was too small, and made of the wrong kind of stuff, to survive the trip through Earth's atmosphere, researchers said. Indeed, the video shows four distinct flares emanating from the comet chunk as it broke apart multiple times.
- Meteorite strikes in Harleston? - 12 June 2011
  A REMOVAL man from Long Stratton believes that a meteorite tore a gaping three to four inch hole in the roof of his 18-ton lorry.
  The hole, big enough to comfortably slip a mobile phone through, was done to one of the sturdy, metal-thick corner joints on the green non-articulated Mercedes Benz Axor lorry.
  “It looked like a shotgun blast or something, the way it’s been punched clean through, but there’s no way something like that could have happened because of where the hole is and the fact there are no trees or ledges anywhere in sight to get above the vehicles and make the shot.
  “Although I found nothing in the truck itself and nothing went through the floor, there were brown specks of what looked and felt like soil on the jagged edges.
- Meteorite strikes in Harleston? - 12 June 2011
- UK: Meteorite Spotted in Eye, Norfolk - 18 Jun 2011
- My meteor camera at my BuckSnort Observatory in Central Texas caught this bright fireball last night! - 21 Jun 2011
- Giant Fireball Filmed In Mexico - July 4, 2011
  With a title that reads “UFO or Meteorite”, it’s easy to see how alien and UFO rumors begin. Posted on YouTube is a video that was shot in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on June 29th, 2001.
  The video is by far one of the clearest and most beautiful filming of a meteorite falling towards earth. With such long trailing tails of fire, you really can’t help but imagine this thing bring from a different planet.
- Secondary Data
  - An Asteroid Missed Earth this Week -What are the Odds that We'll Always be Lucky? - June 03, 2011
    An asteroid the size of a truck zoomed near Earth this week (June 1), coming closer to us than the moon ever does. The 23-foot-long (7-meter) space rock, named 2009 BD, came within 215,000 miles (346,000 kilometers) of Earth at around 8:51 p.m. EDT (0051 GMT on June 2). The moon's average distance from us is about 239,000 miles (385,000 km).
    Stephen Hawking believes that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with inhabited planets.
  - ANOTHER ASTEROID TO GIVE EARTH A CLOSE SHAVE JUNE 27, 2011 - JUNE 23, 2011
    A newly discovered house-sized asteroid will miss the Earth by less than 17,700 km (11,000 miles) on Monday June 27, 2011. That’s about 23 times closer than the Moon. The size and location of the asteroid, named 2011 MD, should allow observers in certain locations to take a look at the space rock, even with small telescopes. It’s closest approach will be at 13:26 UTC on June 27.
    As of now, asteroid 2011 MD is estimated to be between 9 to 45 meters (10 to 50 yards) wide.
  - Mystery Flash on Mauna Kea - Jun 24, 2011
    COMMENT:
    I'm curious how one envisions fuel discharging with a sphere that moves along with its center... wouldn't that produce more of a wake shape or possible a spiral? In order to retain the spherical/circular form, would not the object have to be moving relatively away from or toward the observer? The halo appears to be beyond the cloud bank, making it certainly above the atmosphere... could it be an exploding near earth approaching asteroid/comet?
    
    As far as what vaporized... perhaps a small cometary fragment hitting the outer atmosphere and falling towards the observers. We see it get closer, expand and dissipate.
    or
    Mystery Flash on Mauna Kea - Jun 24, 2011