July 2009 To December 2009 Events

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5 Jan. 2009 & 24 July 2010

THREAT LEVEL RED 07/01/09 to 07/11/09
- 2009 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 1 Jul./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 2 Jul./1 (1 EVENT) 1 Event
  - 3 Jul./8 (3 EVENTS) 1 Event
  - 4 Jul./4 (3 EVENTS)
  - 5 Jul./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 6 Jul./42 (2 EVENTS) 1 Event
  - 8 Jul./1 (1 EVENT) 2 Events
  - 9 Jul./1 (1 EVENT) A'
  - 10 Jul./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 11 Jul./1 (1 EVENT)
- Observed Fireballs and meteorites.
- Meteor shower, comet highlights in July - 06/27/2009
  There will be two more very exciting celestial events taking place this month, but only one of them will be visible for us in New England. The annual Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower will peak during the morning hours of July 28. This shower actually begins around the middle of July and blends right into the famous Perseid Meteor Shower, which starts at the end of July and peaks on August 12.
- Fireball/bright light - June 6 2009
  A fast moving fireball like object moving in direct path over the A50, seen on two occasions with a full car of people with me. At first we thought it was an aircraft on fire, it almost looked as though the light emitted from the object was passing through and searching the clouds, I dunno. It was moving in a straight line but the light appeared to flicker, but it's path did not falter. Light was not coming from a direct source or visible light or led, like a glowing ball almost.
- Fireball Sighting Reports 6 July 2009
  ime Of Sighting: 01:30
  Report: Around 1:30 AM my friends and myself looked up in the sky and saw a huge light coming from the sky. We then spotted what we thought was a shooting star, but it was too low and lasted longer then a shooting star, while also carrying an extreme brightness to it. About 5 minutes later there was a huge boom that many felt around the Hanover, PA area and also others towns close as well.
  Location: Hanover, Pennsylvania
  Direction Of Travel: Southeast
  Line Of Sight: East
  Landmark: House/ Field
  Altitude: 1,600 m
  Angle of Decent In Degrees: South
  Color of Fireball: Bright Yellow/Orange
  Brightness: Lite up whole sky
  Duration: 7 seconds
  Extinguish: Yes
  Retardation Point Azimuth: East
  Sonic Boom: Yes
  Crackling Static Sound: Yes
- Fireball Sighting Reports - July 6, 2009
  Time Of Sighting: 10:53 pm
  Report: Driving NW on Highway 133 coming down an incline. Fireball entered my line of vision and was in sight for about 3 seconds. Fireball met the Horizon and dissapeared near Steven’s Gulch. Fireball had not burned out.
  Location: Highway 133 Paonia Area Colorado
  Direction Of Travel: West
  Line Of Sight: North East
  Landmark: Stevens Gulch
  Altitude: One Mile
  Angle of Decent In Degrees: 45 degress
  Color of Fireball: orange with red, blue tail
  Brightness: Vivid
  Duration: Was in my line of sight for 3 seconds
- Large Boom, Flash Of Light Seen In Night Sky Likely A 'Fireball' - July 6, 2009
  A number of viewers throughout the Susquehanna Valley have contacted News 8 about a bright light they saw in the night sky, and an explosion they heard and felt early Monday morning.
  News 8 has been looking into the reports and contacted a member of the American Meteor Society, Robert Lunsford, who said it was likely a "fireball," a brighter than normal meteor. Lunsford also said it was likely larger than a normal meteor.
  "I now have 15 reports of this object," he said. "It is most certainly a fireball, one that survived low enough to have produced a sonic boom and produce possible fragments on the ground (meteorites) near its end point."
- A Mason-Dixon meteor? - 06 Jul 2009
  In York County, Pa., police officers from Penn Township, Southwestern Regional and Newberry Township reported seeing a flash and hearing a boom around 1:15 a.m. Monday, July 6, according to local 911 centers. Officials in Harford County, Md. also reported seeing a flash and hearing a boom near the Mason-Dixon Line.
- Meteor shoots across region, is caught on video The 6 July 2009 meteor. "Quite a few reports say it came down somewhere, but I don't know if they'll find it," Gaines said. "That's a lot of land to cover for something that was probably the size of a fist when it landed."
- Fireball Sighting Reports - 7 July 2009
  Time Of Sighting: 01:03
  Report: It was big falling out of the sky at an angle. It was very bright making a wooshing sound. It was reddish/yellowish/orangish. It appeared to be about 50' in diameter. At first I thought it was a plane, at first it looked like the headlight of a plane coming at me low to the ground and then I thought it was a plane crashing. It appeared that in it's trail there were pieces of something falling apart. When the object fell below the tree line it was no longer visable prior to going below the tree line behind our home it was still glowing very brightly.
  Direction Of Travel: North West
  Line Of Sight: South West
  Landmark: Hogelands Farm located on Hogeland Rd between that farm and the Millcreek Rod and Gun Hatchery
  Altitude: 500 feet
  Angle of Decent In Degrees: approx 90 degree angle
  Color of Fireball: orangish/redish/yellowish
  Brightness: brighter than the moon not as bright as the sun
- "Fresh" Crater Found in Egypt; Changes Impact Risk - July 22, 2010
  A SMALL IMPACT CRATER DISCOVERED IN THE EGYPTIAN DESERT COULD CHANGE ESTIMATES FOR IMPACT HAZARDS TO OUR PLANET, ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY.
  Based on their calculations, the team thinks that a 4.2-foot-wide (1.3-meter- wide) solid iron meteor weighing 11,023 to 22,046 pounds (5,000 to 10,000 kilograms) smashed into the desert—nearly intact—at speeds exceeding 2.1 miles (3.5 kilometers) a second.
  COMMENT i work as a prison guard and i was hit by a falling rock on 9july09 940pm wilkes-barre,pa. it is pea sized/golden greyish color/crystalline structure/has zig-zag cut on surface where something blew off(fusion crust?).has a scars on surface (ablation scaring) i think it is a piece of comet 109pSWIFT-TUTTLE COMET PIECE. have picturesx24power. out of this world!!!acesand@live.com A'
- Secondary Data
  - SUDDEN SUPER SUNSPOT: So Intense say Astronomers - B & C Class Flares - July 06, 2009
    Crop Circle Analysis suggest several CMEs will impact upon Earth *July* 7th 2009?
    Solar Wind Smashes into Earth - Magnetosphere Wobble Notice comet.
    Webbot Prediction about Solar Disease in the 'Summer of Hell'.
    Summer 2009
    The Complete WebBot ALTA 1309 Report
  - Old Web Bot Material
  - Obamageddon is Coming! - 4 minute video - Posted July 06, 2009
    Sounds like the ALTA 1309 report.
  - Skies ready for triple eclipse - , July 5, 2009
    Commencing Tuesday, three eclipses - a lunar eclipse, a solar eclipse and another lunar - will take over the skies, a phenomenon which although experts say is not rare, will nevertheless be nature's grand spectacle.
    Why all the crop circle fuss over an eclipse?
  - A Solar Flare Crop Picture In The Style Of A 'Feathered Serpent' - 5 July 2009
  - Giant hummingbird crop circle appears in Wiltshire barley field - Jul 2, 2009
    A crop circle depicting a 300ft-long hummingbird has appeared in a barley field in Wiltshire.
    The colibr?one was considered a divine bird in the Aztec civilization, called " huitzitzilin" , its God of the war was Huitzilopochtli. They represented also it astronomically.
    "The Aztecs believed that the souls of dead warriors came back to Earth in the shapes of hummingbirds or butterflies. They also regarded hummingbirds as sources of the Sun's heat.
    'In Mayan teachings, Hummingbird is connected to the Black Sun and the Fifth World.
    Vulcan is the 'Black Sun';
  - Honey Street, Nr Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. - Reported 27th June.
    A cloud covered Earth. The image is shaded in whites. Note that part of the Earth is clear and it appears like the winds are carrying dust from a comet or meteor impact around the Earth.
  - Apocalyptic Sky Over New York Tonight - June 26, 2009 Reminesent of the sixth internal monad, the first of which is birth and the seventh of which is death. The sixth is the one that 'does one in'
  - Martinsell Hill, nr Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire. Reported 25th June 2009. A comet or meteor approaching Earth? Impact 9 days away (circa 4 July) in the water?
  - A new two-part crop picture at Milk Hill on June 21-22, 2009 shows the symbolism of a 'sextant' and an 'orrery', plus a clever astronomical time code for the emission of some small astronomical body by our Sun
    The hourly time of observation clearly has to be close to 1200 UT, since one arm of that 'sextant'; is aligned south to north, parallel to the crop tramlines, while our Sun lies due south at noon in southern England. As shown below, our best theoretical matches to the crop picture were for upcoming dates of July 6 or 7, 2009:
    Why would those crop artists go to all the trouble of showing us 'sextant' or 'orrery' shapes, then coding that orrery with six rectangular boxes which mean July 6 or 7, 2009, unless something significant were going to happen on that day?
    Directly next to their symbol for 4 = Sun, we can see a small, round, encircled shape (marked by a red arrow) that seems to be aligned in the general direction of Earth (red dashed line).
    A similar symbol was used to describe Comet 73P Schwassman-Wachmann 3 at Bishop's Sutton in 1995 (see time2007a), or Comet 17P Holmes at Bluebell Hill in 2005 (see time2007h). But was it meant here to represent a 'comet' or something else?
  - Tawsmead Copse of June 13, 2009 shows a series of 'coronal mass ejections' and 'current sheets' emerging from our Sun, on the upcoming date of a lunar eclipse as July 7, 2009
  - A multitude of sevens: will our north or south polar regions show a bright new aurora on 7-7-2009?
    A new crop picture which appeared near Milk Hill on June 2, 2009 seems to show the imagery of a 'Saros eclipse cycle', even though it shows 7-fold rather than 3-fold symmetry, as has been portrayed in many other crop pictures from the past:
  - The astronomy of our local solar system was shown at Roundway, Bishop Cannings, Windmill Hill or Wayland’s Smithy in April or May of 2009: the solar ecliptic, lunar orbit, a lunar eclipse on July 7, 2009, and possibly an upcoming solar storm!
  - Perhaps the Sea-Based X-Band Radar is being deployed off Hawaii to track incoming comet/meteor fragments.
    - Radar staying longer than planned - September 3, 2006
      The giant radar, so powerful it can tell which way a baseball is spinning 3,000 miles away and so cutting edge it has been billed as the nation's best chance at comprehensive missile defense, came to Pearl Harbor for what was advertised as a quick stopover for minor repairs.
      That was eight months ago.
      Now, even as the weeks pass and the price tag creeps toward $1 billion, the Sea- Based X-Band Radar shows little chance of making the voyage to its intended port in Alaska — considered the optimal location for monitoring potential North Korean missile launches — until at least this fall.
    - Pentagon Deploys Experimental Missile Shield to Hawaii - June 19, 2009
      This was a test, not an imminent attack, after all; and it would’ve cost as much as $100 million to move the thing into place.
      That means sending Army Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense missile systems, still in development, to the islands, and deploying the SBX radar.
      SBX is equally controversial.
    - Planned N. Korea launch unnerves Hawaii residents - June 21, 2009
      Japanese media have reported the North Koreans appear to be preparing for a long-range test near July 4. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered additional protections for Hawaii in case a missile is launched over the Pacific Ocean.
      On Wednesday, a military radar system — shaped like a giant golf ball — slowly disappeared from Hawaii's coast as it headed out to sea. The 28-story missile X-Band defense radar is designed to work with ground-based missile interceptors on the island of Kauai to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles during their final phase of flight.
    - North Korea warning suggests missile may not be headed toward Hawaii - June 23, 2009
      An impending missile test threatened by North Korea is expected to launch short- to medium-range missiles rather than a long-range missile fired in the direction of Hawaii, according to U.S. intelligence reports.
  - MILITARY HUSH-UP: INCOMING SPACE ROCKS NOW CLASSIFIED - 10 June 2009
    A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.
    The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified.
    "It's baffling to us why this would suddenly change," said one scientist familiar with the work. "It's unfortunate because there was this great synergy...a very good cooperative arrangement. Systems were put into dual-use mode where a lot of science was getting done that couldn't be done any other way. It's a regrettable change in policy."
    Scientists say not only will research into the threat from space be hampered, but public understanding of sometimes dramatic sky explosions will be diminished, perhaps leading to hype and fear of the unknown.
  - The B Swarm's 1^st Cluster Returns
    General Intervals When T367 Displayed Fragments May Threaten Earth: 2007 to 2017.
    - Comet #1 Debris: 07/05/ +/- 6 days. - posted 15 April 2009
      Dead Sea Impact? Posted 2 May 2009
    - Comet #2 Debris: 08/12/ +/- 6 days
    - Comet #3 Debris: 09/04/ +/- 6 days. Wormwood?
    - Comet #4 Debris: 10/07/ +/- 6 days Wormwood?
  - AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE - EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.
    For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires—such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago.
    There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting— including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath.
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THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 07/12/09 to 08/06/09
- 2009 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 13 Jul./13 (6 EVENTS)
  - 14 Jul./6 (3 EVENTS)
  - 15 Jul./1 (1 EVENT) 1 Event
  - 16 Jul./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 17 Jul./4 (4 EVENTS)
  - 18 Jul./2 (2 EVENTS) 1 Event
  - 19 Jul./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 20 Jul./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 21 Jul./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 22 Jul./6 (1 EVENT)
  - 23 Jul./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 24 Jul./5 (2 EVENTS) 1 Event
  - 25 Jul./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 26 Jul./6 (3 EVENTS)
  - 27 Jul./2 (1 EVENT) 1 Event
  - 28 Jul./2 (1 EVENT)
  - 29 Jul./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 30 Jul./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 31 Jul./3 (1 EVENT)
  - 01 Aug./16 (4 EVENTS)
  - 02 Aug./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 03 Aug./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 04 Aug./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 05 Aug./1 (1 EVENT)
- Observed Fireballs and meteorites.
- Meteor shower, comet highlights in July - 06/27/2009
  There will be two more very exciting celestial events taking place this month, but only one of them will be visible for us in New England. The annual Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower will peak during the morning hours of July 28. This shower actually begins around the middle of July and blends right into the famous Perseid Meteor Shower, which starts at the end of July and peaks on August 12.
- FIREBALL: Guffey, Colorado, USA - Jul. 13, 2009
  A bright fireball (mag -10) lit up central Colorado at 2:28 AM MDT on July 13. It was very slow, lasting at least 5.5 seconds. At its maximum brightness, it was only 50 km high and traveling about 15 km/s. This image was captured by a video allsky camera.
- July 13, 2009 Fireball
  This slow, bright fireball occurred at 2:28 AM MDT over central Colorado. The image at left is from the Cloudbait camera. The meteor produced a long trail, gradually brightening to about magnitude -10 (the Moon, seen at the bottom, is about magnitude -11). Several small flares of light are also seen along the path. The fireball lasted over 5.5 seconds.
  Based on the camera data, I have determined that the meteor began over south central Colorado, and descended to the northeast, ending near northwest Colorado Springs
  The fairly low altitude and low velocity (16 km/s) mean this fireball might have produced meteorites. However, the brightness profile is suggestive of a meteor which simply burned up.
- What was mysterious fireball in the night sky? - 25th July 2009
  PICTURES taken by a Worcester family show what they claim is a 'fireball' streaking across the Worcester night sky.
  The object which had 'orange flames coming from its top and sides' was spotted in Worcester at 10.15pm on Thursday.
- Mexico: The Xochitepec Fireball - UFO or Meteorite? - 27 Jul 2009
- Scunthorpe - 1st August 2009
  Witness Statement: i was stood in my garden havein a fag and i saw like a fire ball in the sky i thought it was a plane on fire because it looked like parts of it had fallen of still on fire but they did not fall to the ground they all flowed the same westerly direction i believe it was any explanation
  I was camping at tantllion campsite with 7 others. I was standing out tent waiting on my husband fixing rope next minute I looked up and saw bright orange Object coming from trees and there was no noise coming from it and it went straight over us disappeared over other trees. My friend thought it was a flare at first but it just kept going straight and he said flares don’t do that. I’ve never saw anything like that before
- August 4, 2009
  Time Of Sighting: 23:40
  Report: fireball was yellow and red going straight down. direction south of 106 pamela drive, walthourville, GA 31333
- Secondary Data
THREAT LEVEL ORANGE 08/06/09 to 08/18/09
- 2009 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 06 Aug./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 07 Aug./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 08 Aug./4 (4 EVENTS)
  - 09 Aug./10 (3 EVENTS)
  - 10 Aug./2 (2 EVENTS) A
  - 11 Aug./6 (4 EVENTS)
  - 12 Aug./8 (7 EVENTS)
  - 14 Aug./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 15 Aug./5 (3 EVENTS) 1 Event
  - 17 Aug./1 (1 EVENT)
- Observed Fireballs and meteorites.
- Meteor shower, comet highlights in July - 06/27/2009
  There will be two more very exciting celestial events taking place this month, but only one of them will be visible for us in New England. The annual Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower will peak during the morning hours of July 28. This shower actually begins around the middle of July and blends right into the famous Perseid Meteor Shower, which starts at the end of July and peaks on August 12.
- 8/10/2009 A
  Time Of Sighting: 17:08
  Report: I was driving west about to begin crossing the Baton Rouge bridge. At 5:08pm I heard a extremely loud bang (much like a gun shot) and was covered in glass from my sunroof. No vehicle was in front of me I was above all rooflines and no buildings were within 100 yards from my car. My car is a 2007 Audi A3 with the 'open sky roof' option. This means that my entire roof is made of glass. These cars have been reported to roll over with out breaking the glass roof. I was not able to locate any debris in my vehicle other than glass. Would the impact have destroyed the projectile? I’m very thankful that the weather was hot and humid outside leading my to keep my sunroof closed. If it were open, it would have struck my arm resting on the center armrest.
- Secondary Data
  - MILITARY HUSH-UP: INCOMING SPACE ROCKS NOW CLASSIFIED - 10 June 2009
    A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.
    The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified.
    "It's baffling to us why this would suddenly change," said one scientist familiar with the work. "It's unfortunate because there was this great synergy...a very good cooperative arrangement. Systems were put into dual-use mode where a lot of science was getting done that couldn't be done any other way. It's a regrettable change in policy."
    Scientists say not only will research into the threat from space be hampered, but public understanding of sometimes dramatic sky explosions will be diminished, perhaps leading to hype and fear of the unknown.
    The MILITARY HUSH-UP: appears to have been extended to the media after 1 Aug 2009.
THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 08/19/09 to 09/07/09
- 2009 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 20 Aug./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 21 Aug./1 (1 EVENT) 1 Event
  - 22 Aug./4 (3 EVENTS)
  - 23 Aug./3 (2 EVENTS)
  - 24 Aug./10 (4 EVENTS) B
  - 25 Aug./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 26 Aug./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 27 Aug./1 (1 EVENT) 1 Event
  - 28 Aug./15 (2 EVENTS)
  - 29 Aug./4 (2 EVENTS)
  - 30 Aug./7 (4 EVENTS)
  - 31 Aug./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 1 Sep./29 (3 EVENTS)
  - 2 Sep./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 3 Sep./4 (4 EVENTS) 1 Event
  - 4 Sep./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 5 Sep./2 (1 EVENT)
  - 6 Sep./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 7 Sep./2 (1 EVENT)
- Observed Fireballs and meteorites.
- 08/19/2009 Fireball Sighting Reports
  Time Of Sighting: 04:00
  Report: It was bright white with a bright white tail/trail. It was about the size of a large pea. It lasted approx 3-4 seconds. Not sure of the approx time. Between 03:00-04:00.
- Aug. 20, 2009 Fireball Sighting Reports
  Report: While looking for shooting stars, we were about to go in when the wife yelled, 'Look at that!'
  I wheeled around and saw the most brilliant large white fireball rapidly descending towards the Sandia Mountains—to the East of Albuquerque. It disappeared from view behind our trees, which face the mountains. No noise or sound…just the 'Wow' of our amazement!
- August 24th Fireball over Canada – Possible Meteorite? B
  Occasionally, I like to search Twitter for meteorite or meteorites. Last night, a bunch of people in Canada suddenly started talking about meteorites. A large meteor was seen – also known as a fireball or bolide.
  Below, I’ve compiled some of the highlights from Twitter. I’ve used ellipsis to indicate multiple tweets from the same user.
  Hi, I saw it land! It was as high as a telephone pole when I saw it I was no more than 20 yards away. Report it, to who? … I could see the ripples from the heat it was blue, looked like a force field, and the head was a fireball.
  Driving home tonite, we saw a meteorite land about 300 yards away.
  saw the most breathtaking meteor tonight! blue, green and orange! it was hugeeee!
  holy s—, I just saw a meteor crash.
- 'Fiery' meteor sighted - 09:39 28/08/2009
  Zoe Battersby was out for an early walk along Jimmy Amers beach in Kaikoura at around 6.10am when she noticed a 'very large meteor'.
  'It was very bright - the size of a streetlight. It looked like it fell into the sea,' she said.
  Christchurch man Aaron Green said he saw "a bright blue and white light dropping from the sky like a firework'.
  Alan Gilmore, resident superintendent of the University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory said meteors enter the atmosphere over New Zealand 'several times a year' but he doubted that the rock made it to the ground or water level.
  'This meteor is very typical, and often they burn up at about 70kms up. It’s very rare for them to actually land. They are coming into a thicker atmosphere, travelling at 30km a second. The friction is strong and they slow up and start to break up. It’s like throwing a stone at a concrete path,' he said.
- - August 28, 2009
- Meteor seen along NZ - 31/08/2009
  Mr Gilmore said as meteors broke up, witnesses often saw a bright flash known as a "terminal fireball".
  Meteors could be seen from as far as 1000km away and at a height of 100km.
  "Because they are bright, people think [the meteorite] landed a couple of paddocks away."
- Huge Green Fireball Descends From Sky - August 30, 2009
  We just saw something falling from the sky in Yakima, Washington. At 12:50 AM my mom, my boyfriend and myself were outside in her front yard looking through our telescope at planets. He was bent down adjusting the lens and my mom and I were looking at the skies. All of a sudden - out of nowhere - something fell from the skies just a couple miles from us.
  To me, it looked liked a meteor crashing, but my boyfriend thought it might be a falling satellite or a small plane crashing. We never actually heard a crash. There was no noise. If you hold a dinner plate out against the sky, that was the size of the object and it had 30 to 40 feet of flames behind it. Could it be a crashed UFO? It seemed controlled by the way it was being steered. The sighting lasted around 20 seconds.
  It was headed north to south. We lost sight at the roof of a house on the south side (of our home). On the same note my mom and I drove around looking for this "meterorite" which is exactly what I thought it was, but stumbled upon something else very strange (20 minutes after the sighting). I am reviewing the pictures right now and will send them tomorrow if there is anything to it. I want to go the same location tonight (of possible landed object) to make sure before submitting a formal report. I am not sure if it is even related to the "meteor".
- Huge 'sky explosion' investigated - 4 September 2009
  An Irish astronomy group is calling for help in tracing the origin of a huge explosion in the skies over the country on Thursday evening.
  Astronomy Ireland said it was currently investigating the explosion, which occurred at 2100 BST.
  "In the past two decades there have been two major explosions in the skies over Ireland.
  "When we investigated these, we were able to conclude that one was a Russian military satellite that exploded over the country, and the other was a rock from space which we predicted would have fallen on Carlow and this rock was indeed found, becoming the last meteorite fall of the millennium."
- Brilliant blink of the eye blue streak of light followed by very small, bright blue explosion!!! - 8/5/2009 22:35
  I was just looking out the window to the east, looked up into the sky and faster than I could blink a streak of blue light shot in a very slight degree upwards angle and travelling away from me in a southeasterly direction. It was as if the light had been stationary and invisible and the moment I looked into the sky at the place it was, the blue light shot off faster than anything I have ever seen (to fast to be a shooting star) travelled briefly away and across the sky and then exploded in a very small bright flash of blue and possibly a bit of white
- Secondary Data
  - MILITARY HUSH-UP: INCOMING SPACE ROCKS NOW CLASSIFIED - 10 June 2009
    A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.
    The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified.
    "It's baffling to us why this would suddenly change," said one scientist familiar with the work. "It's unfortunate because there was this great synergy...a very good cooperative arrangement. Systems were put into dual-use mode where a lot of science was getting done that couldn't be done any other way. It's a regrettable change in policy."
    Scientists say not only will research into the threat from space be hampered, but public understanding of sometimes dramatic sky explosions will be diminished, perhaps leading to hype and fear of the unknown.
    The MILITARY HUSH-UP: appears to have been extended to the media after 1 Aug 2009.
THREAT LEVEL ORANGE 09/08/09 to 09/23/09 - Note 9 Day Shift Forward From T367 Predictions Based On Past Data
- 2009 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 8 Sep./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 9 Sep./1 (1 EVENT) 1 Event
  - 10 Sep./10 (6 EVENTS)
  - 11 Sep./5 (4 EVENTS)
  - 12 Sep./26 (1 EVENT)
  - 13 Sep./4 (3 EVENTS)
  - 14 Sep./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 15 Sep./5 (3 EVENTS)
  - 16 Sep./3 (1 EVENT)
  - 17 Sep./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 18 Sep./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 20 Sep./26 (7 EVENTS) 1 Event
  - 21 Sep./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 22 Sep./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 23 Sep./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 24 Sep./8 (6 EVENTS)
- Observed Fireballs and meteorites.
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- Secondary Data
  - MILITARY HUSH-UP: INCOMING SPACE ROCKS NOW CLASSIFIED - 10 June 2009
    A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.
    The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified.
    "It's baffling to us why this would suddenly change," said one scientist familiar with the work. "It's unfortunate because there was this great synergy...a very good cooperative arrangement. Systems were put into dual-use mode where a lot of science was getting done that couldn't be done any other way. It's a regrettable change in policy."
    Scientists say not only will research into the threat from space be hampered, but public understanding of sometimes dramatic sky explosions will be diminished, perhaps leading to hype and fear of the unknown.
    The MILITARY HUSH-UP: appears to to have been extended to the media after 1 Aug 2009.
  - Spot of bother on Venus - but it’s no War of the Worlds - August 03, 2009
    Professor John Brown, who holds the post by Royal appointment, said: "It's pretty surprising, but I'd certainly stop short of any speculation of UFOs or aliens.
    "It's very interesting though. Venus has very thick clouds. It tends to be very white and featureless - it's very hard to see any features at all on it.
    "Venus is very similar in size to the Earth but its atmosphere is completely different.
    That "UFOs or aliens" theory may not be so bad. Maybe they are warning us that what happened to Jupiter could happen to us by making a similar spot on our sister planet. Remember Crop Circle T367.
  - Hubble Snaps Sharpest Image Yet of Jupiter Impact - July 24, 2009
    If whatever hit Jupiter — and astronomers might never know what it was — had instead struck Earth, it would have caused catastrophic damage to human civilization.
  - Jupiter collision a warning call to Earth - July 21, 2009
  - Possible Impact Event On Jupiter - 20 Jul 2009
    Did something just hit Jupiter? On July 19th, a black "scar" appeared in Jupiter's clouds similar to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts of 1994. Veteran Jupiter observer Anthony Wesley photographed the feature from his observatory in Murrumbateman, Australia.
    "The jet-black mark is near Jupiter's south pole (south is up in the image)," says Wesley. "I have imagery of that same location from two nights earlier without the impact mark, so this is a very recent event. The material has already begun to spread out in a fan shape on one side, and should be rapidly pulled apart by the fast jetstream winds. I recorded a lot of footage, and will be generating more images and a rotation animation soon."
  - All Eyepieces on Jupiter After a Big Impact - July 21, 2009
    Astronomers were scrambling to get big telescopes turned to Jupiter on Tuesday to observe the remains of what looks like the biggest smashup in the solar system since fragments of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into the planet in July 1994.
    Something — probably a small comet — smacked into Jupiter on Sunday, leaving a bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean near its south pole. Just after midnight, Australian time, on Sunday, Jupiter came into view in the eyepiece of Anthony Wesley, an amateur astronomer in Murrumbateman. The planet was bearing a black eye spookily similar to the ones left in 1994.
    Dr. Marchis said the shape of the debris splash as revealed in the Keck images suggested that whatever hit Jupiter might have been pulled apart by tidal forces from the planet’s huge gravity before it hit. In an e-mail message, he said humans should be thankful for Jupiter.
    'The solar system would have been a very dangerous place if we did not have Jupiter,' he wrote. 'We should thank our giant planet for suffering for us. Its strong gravitational field is acting like a shield protecting us from comets coming from the outer part of the solar system.'
THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 09/08/09 to 09/23/09
- 2009 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 25 Sep./47 (3 EVENTS) D
  - 26 Sep./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 27 Sep./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 28 Sep./7 (4 EVENTS) C
  - 29 Sep./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 30 Sep./4 (4 EVENTS)
  - 01 Oct./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 02 Oct./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 03 Oct./5 (2 EVENTS)
- Observed Fireballs and meteorites.
- Shock and surprise as space object falls - 28 September 2009 - C
  Yesterday afternoon, near 19, the inhabitants of Mendoza, La Pampa, San Luis, and Cordoba saw a meteorite coming down the sky. It finally desintegrated with a loud explosion before it hit the earth.
  It was like a fireball,' commented several neighbors to a local radio last night. Some Pampean residents said they photographed it and sent to it to the local media. In fact what is seen is a trail in the sky.
  The object fell in the middle of the field in an area of 300,000 hectares which is uninhabited. The risks of fire outbrakes was immediately ruled out as it had been snowing all day long and it was very humid.
  Jaime Garcia, amateur astronomer in charge of the Copernicus Institute in San Rafael, said 'nothing can be confirmed until an object is found, but we can say that according to testimonies, it is very likely to be a metal object such as a meteor.'
- Far out! Meteorite found in Grimsby - D
  Scientists have scheduled a news conference today to show off the fragment of space rock, which hurtled into the windshield of a Grimsby family’s sport utility vehicle on Sept. 25.
  McCausland said heavy media coverage helped the as-yet unnamed family 'connected the dots' between their mysteriously smashed windshield and the meteor that streaked across the skies of southern Ontario three weeks ago.
  The fireball was first picked up by cameras operated by the University of Western Ontario’s physics and astronomy department 100 kilometres above Guelph as it streaked southeastward at a speed of about 75,000 kilometres per hour.
- Small meteorite broke windshield of SUV - Oct 16, 2009
  Scientists say a golf ball-sized rock that smashed through the windshield of an SUV is a meteorite, possibly from a spectacular fireball that streaked across the sky above Hamilton three weeks ago (on Sept 25).
- Strange fireball seen in night sky - 30th September 2009
  He said it was orange and moved through the sky for about two or three minutes in a north-south direction. It then slowly started to fade and then disappear, fading out before it had reached the horizon in the south.
- 2009 Samoa earthquake
  The 2009 Samoa earthquake was an 8.0 Mw submarine earthquake that took place in the Samoan Islands region at 06:48:11 local time on September 29, 2009 (17:48:11 UTC, September 29).[3] It is the largest earthquake so far in 2009.
  Possibly (but unlikely) related to the above fireball activity and somewhat close to the #5 T367 crop circle threat time.
- Secondary Data
THREAT LEVEL ORANGE 10/04/09 to 10/08/09
- 2009 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 04 Oct./8 (2 EVENTS)
  - 07 Oct./4 (3 EVENTS)
  - 08 Oct./4 (4 EVENTS)
- Observed Fireballs and meteorites.
- Video: Fireball lights up sky over Iceland - 05 Oct 2009
  The police in Selfoss caught these weird lights in the sky on tape shortly after midnight last night. The officers were going east during a routine highway patrol on Eyrarbakka-road when they noticed a spectacular flare which to them seemed to be heading to the river Ölfus? Speculations are that this was a meteorite entering the atmosphere.
  Many saw the flare and notified the police, and the flare was seen all around the south of Iceland and in Akranes. It is believed impossible to have been an emergency flare.
- Asteroid explosion over Indonesia raises fears about Earth's defences - 27 Oct 2009
  An asteroid that exploded in the Earth's atmosphere with the energy of three Hiroshima bombs this month has reignited fears about our planet's defences against space impacts.
  On 8 October, the rock crashed into the atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The blast was heard by monitoring stations 10,000 miles away, according to a report by scientists at the University of Western Ontario.
  Scientists are concerned that it was not spotted by any telescopes, and that had it been larger it could have caused a disaster.
  The asteroid, estimated to have been around 10 metres (30ft) across, hit the atmosphere at an estimated 45,000mph. The sudden deceleration caused it to heat up rapidly and explode with the force of 50,000 tons of TNT.
  Luckily, due to the height of the explosion 'estimated at between 15 and 20 km (nine to 12 miles) above sea level' no damage was caused on the ground.
  Likely related to the #5 T367 crop circle threat time of 7 October +/- 6 days.
- Secondary Data
THREAT LEVEL YELLOW 10/09/09 to 12/31/09
- 2009 Meteor Shower Calendar
- AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC) EVENTS: M_10-
  50, L_51-150, H₁₅₁₊ IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2009 (UTC)
  The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports
- DATE/REPORTS
  - 09 Oct./4 (3 EVENTS)
  - 10 Oct./6 (3 EVENTS)
  - 11 Oct./3 (3 EVENTS) 1 Event
  - 12 Oct./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 13 Oct./6 (3 EVENTS) 1 Event
  - 14 Oct./3 (2 EVENTS)
  - 15 Oct./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 16 Oct./8 (5 EVENT) E
  - 17 Oct./6 (4 EVENTS)
  - 18 Oct./3 (2 EVENTS)
  - 19 Oct./4 (2 EVENTS)
  - 20 Oct./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 21 Oct./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 22 Oct./2 (1 EVENT) 1 Event
  - 23 Oct./3 (1 EVENT)
  - 24 Oct./4 (3 EVENTS)
  - 25 Oct./8 (2 EVENTS)
  - 26 Oct./8 (3 EVENTS)
  - 27 Oct./9 (2 EVENTS)
  - 28 Oct./1 (1 EVENTS) 1 Event
  - 03 Nov./1 (1 EVENT)
  - Missing?
  - 05 Nov. 1 Event
  - 11 Nov. 1 Event
  - Missing?
  - 15 Nov./1 (1 EVENT) 1 Event
  - 16 Nov. 2 Events
  - 17 Nov./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 26 Nov./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 27 Nov./4 (2 EVENTS)
  - 28 Nov./3 (2 EVENTS)
  - 30 Nov./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 1 Dec./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 2 Dec./3 (1 EVENT)
  - 3 Dec./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 4 Dec./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 8 Dec./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 9 Dec./3 (1 EVENT)
  - 11 Dec./8 (3 EVENTS)
  - 12 Dec./5 (1 EVENT)
  - 14 Dec./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 15 Dec./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 16 Dec./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 18 Dec./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 20 Dec./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 21 Dec./2 (2 EVENTS)
  - 23 Dec./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 24 Dec./1 (1 EVENT)
  - 28 Dec./3 (3 EVENTS)
  - 29 Dec./3 (1 EVENT)
  - 31 Dec./1 (1 EVENT)
- Observed Fireballs and meteorites.
- Cosmic Object Caught On Camera - 13 Oct 2009
  He caught a spectacular fireball on video and he said you can help him track down what's left of it.
  Thomas Ashcraft caught a cosmic fireball on camera. It flashed through the sky for about eight seconds just after 2 Friday morning.
  "Maybe somebody recorded this on surveillance camera. So if there's other videos, then we might be able to triangulate and see if there's a meteorite that landed somewhere," said Ashcraft.
- Huge meteor explodes over Holland - 14 October 2009
  Meteorite explodes over north Groningen
  Hundreds of people report seeing a spectacular fireball or meteorite over the Netherlands in Tuesday's clear evening skies.
  The police emergency number, Dutch coastguard and KNMI weather bureau report dozens of phone calls about the meteorite, which was seen in Germany and Belgium.
- Meteorite streaks across NM sky - October 16, 2009 E
  Scientists think a fireball that flew over New Mexico may have been close enough to actually hit the ground.
  A Santa Fe astronomer was able to catch the fiery streak on video. Thomas Ashcraft says the fireball didn't disintegrate when it hit the atmosphere. It may have landed somewhere near Taos.
- Red-hot piece of space junk crashes through pensioner's roof - 16th October 2009 - E'
  Pensioner Peter Welton was amazed when a piece of red-hot debris crashed through his roof in July. Now experts have confirmed the object had travelled hundreds of miles from outer space.
  The 75-year-old had been in his bedroom when he heard a smash and found the football-sized lump of extra terrestrial debris in the loft of his home in Hull.
- Hundreds in Netherlands and Germany see 'exploding fireball' in sky - October 19, 2009
  Washington, October 19 (ANI): Reports indicate that hundreds of people in the Netherlands and Germany have reported seeing a huge exploding fireball in the sky on October 13.
  According to a report in National Geographic News, amateur photographer Robert Mikaelyan captured the phenomenon on camera.
  Mikaelyan managed to capture several shots of the fireball as it swung low over the northern city of Groningen, Netherlands, and began to break apart into smaller chunks.
  'I suddenly saw a light in the sky coming fast and quickly got the pictures taken,' Mikaelyan said.
  A few seconds after the fireball had been sighted, witnesses heard a sonic boom followed by low rumbles that rattled windows-signatures of a high- altitude explosion.
  The object was most likely a rogue space rock that disintegrated shortly after hitting Earth's atmosphere, according to experts, who speculate that pieces of the meteor may have landed in the North Sea.
- Massive Fireball Over Tokyo
  Several people observed a massive meteor fireball emitting a brighter than usual flash at around 8:30 pm on the 6th of November - it was observed throughout the province. According to a statement from the Toyama Observatory, it was a "massive fireball", a rare phenomenon caused by a large mass of meteorite.
- Possible meteor spotted in B.C. sky - November 8, 2009
  People throughout British Columbia were treated to a spectacular light show Saturday (6 Nov 2009) after what's believed to be a meteor lit up the sky.
  Stephen Dalley and his wife were driving north of Comox, on Vancouver Island, at about 7 p.m. PT.
  "We were shocked ?I mean, it wasn't what you'd expect, but it was bright white, with red and green and some blue colours, with a bit of a trail behind it and it was a large fireball," he said.
  "[It was] approximately what the size of the moon would have been if we were looking at the moon."
  Dodge said astronomers will use the sightings in the hopes of triangulating the spot where the rock may have landed.
- November 7 ?California Fireball
  A comment posting by Rich gives a rather detailed observation of the event:
  ?1/07/2009 at approximately 1700hrs we were driving south form Santa Rosa on Hwy 12 and were passing through Sonoma when we noticed a large brilliant white fireball in a SSW direction. It first caught our attention at about 20 to 25deg off the horizon. Our visual on it only lasted only about 3-4 seconds then just before passing the hills in the distance it seemed to go out. There was no associated noise or sign of impact. It was just gone. There was a smoke or debris trail that we could see after the object was gone that was visible for perhaps a minute or so then it was dispersed by the wind.?
  Pictures of the residual smoke trail can be seen on the Spaceweather.com site.
- Pennsylvania: Another Fireball - Meteor shower - November 9, 2009
  I was driving home from an Apple Festival this weekend when my 3 year old daughter started shouting "Look Mama, a comet!!" I looked out the window and to my amazement I saw I HUGE yellow and white ball of fire. I immediately thought that I just witnessed a airplane explode in sky. I called my husband freaking out and he said that it was probably a meteor. I was driving on a highway and unable to pull over. I was able to reach into my purse and get out my camera. By the time I was able to get a photo through my front windshield (driving 55 miles/hr and one handed LOL) the fireball had broken into 4-5 smaller pieces.
  
  The Fireball
  
  The Fireball's Fragments
- GREAT FIREBALL - November 18, 2009
  A remarkable midnight fireball that "turned night into day" over parts of the western United States last night was not a Leonid. Infrasound measurements suggest a sporadic asteroid not associated with the Leonid debris stream. The space rock exploded in the atmosphere with an energy equivalent to 0.5 - 1 kilotons of TNT. Approximately 6 hours later, observers in Utah and Colorado witnessed a twisting iridescent-blue cloud in the dawn sky. Debris from the fireball should have dissipated by that time, but the cloud remains unexplained; we cannot yet rule out a connection to the fireball event.
- Meteor lights up early morning sky, alarms Utahns - video - November 18th, 2009
  When a meteor enters the atmosphere, it gives off a lot of heat and light. Folks at the Clark Planetarium say this rock was big--between the size of a microwave and washer-dryer unit.
  At exactly 12:07, people from all over the western United States watched as the bolide meteor crashed into Earth's atmosphere. In some areas, the flash of light was so bright it caused light-sensor street lamps to shut off.
  Clark Planetarium Director Seth Jarvis said the stony meteorite was probably traveling 80,000 miles an hour when it hit our atmosphere. He said it happened 100 miles up in the air; so despite the brightness, Utah was never in any danger.
  "These collisions can do damage, but they are extremely rare; and literally once in a century do you observe something that's actually doing damage," he said.
  Witness Andy Bailey said, "Oh, it lit up the whole sky, like almost brighter than the day. It was bright."
  Scientists believe it was not part of the famous Leonid debris stream; instead a sporadic asteroid, a midnight fireball, which exploded in the atmosphere with an energy equivalent of up to one kiloton of TNT.
  "Most meteors, you don't hear them, but this one was close enough and big enough that, yeah, you definitely heard the thing. It was exciting," he said.
  In fact, seismology monitors at the University of Utah picked up the rumble from the air.
  Wiggins said, from his calculations, the pieces of the meteor likely fell over Dugway. He said it's possible meteorites could also be found elsewhere.
- Asteroid Streaks Across Western US Skies 19-Nov-2009
  A number of asteroids and other large objects are moving through the solar system at this time. Since July, large impacts have been recorded on Jupiter, in one of the rings of Saturn and possibly on Venus. Earth has experienced two near misses in the past few weeks, and one airburst of an asteroid over Indonesia on October 8. Like the Indonesian object, there was no warning of the incoming western US meteor. Let's hope we start getting warnings about these space rocks before it's too late!
- Chunk of ice crashes through roof of Colorado home - Nov 18 2009
  A basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home after apparently falling from an airplane passing overhead. Danelle Hagan and her 9-year- old daughter were at home in Brush on Saturday when they heard the kitchen ceiling come crashing down. They were not injured.
  The Federal Aviation Administration was sending investigators to the home to investigate whether the ice came from an airplane. The Hagans put some of the ice in their freezer.
  FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said Wednesday the ice chunk appears to be "Rime ice," which can build up on the outside of a plane's fuselage when it flies through cold and wet air.
- Green object that lit up sky a chip off an old meteor - November 20, 2009
  EXPERTS say a fire ball that streaked across the sky above south-east Queensland last night was a "chip off the old block of some asteroid".
  The meteor was spotted by people from the Sunshine Coast, the Gold Coast and across Brisbane around 9.45pm.
  Witnesses said the meteor was a green glow travelling from south-east to north-west, leaving a visible trail for 10 to 15 minutes.
  Speaking on ABC radio this morning, Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium curator Mark Rigby ruled out space junk as an explanation.
  Astronomers also dismissed the suggestion that the meteor was part of the Leonid meteor shower that is associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle.
- Did meteor hit near Dugway? - Nov. 19, 2009
  "Unfortunately, that puts it on Dugway Proving Grounds, so I doubt anyone will be doing a search there anytime soon, though one person said he's going to see if permission for an expedition could be arranged."
  The meteor produced a tremendous flash that briefly turned night into day over a vast portion of the West at about 12:07 a.m. Wednesday.
  Reports of people seeing the meteor ranged from California to Wyoming.
- Meteor lights up Gauteng - Nov 22, 2009
  "What people saw last night was almost certainly a meteor," Claire Flanagan an astronomer at the Johannesburg Planetarium said.
  People saw a bright "greenish, bluish" light heading towards Pretoria at about 11pm on Saturday night.
  "It moved over the Gauteng Province towards Limpopo... it travels very fast and was about 90 kilometres up," said Flanagan.
- Mysterious 'fireball' sighting not science fiction - November 27, 2009
  As Ernest Merrill was driving down Route 113 in West Newbury on Saturday night, he glimpsed what many astronomers refer to as a once-in-a-lifetime sighting ?a fireball falling from the sky.
  Merrill's friends think he's crazy, but scientists say it's entirely possible. Referred to by astronomers as a "fireball," it is caused by a larger-than-average particle, perhaps from a Leonid meteor shower, shooting through the earth's atmosphere and blazing a fiery trail to the treeline.
- Fireballs spotted in Edmonton sky - November 27, 2009
  Ah to be an early riser: first to the paper, first to the coffee, and, of course, first to the occasional fireball scorching through the sky.
  Twice in as many mornings this week early birds have reported fiery objects in the atmosphere above Edmonton.
  On Thursday at about 7:15 a.m., a fireball was spotted travelling low along the horizon from the northeast to the east, according to the Telus World of Science. The next day, on Friday, a second was eyed in the west at about 5:50 a.m.
- "ELECTRIC" BLUE STREAK SEEN IN EASTERN SKY - November 29, 2009
  I saw an electric blue streak in the eastern sky. The object was about 1 & 1/2 times the size of the moon at that time. The object was about an inch to the left of the moon, which was visually about a foot above the horizon. I noticed the object when it was at about the height the moon was at this point. It descended towards the horizon in a straight line lasting 1 to 2 seconds although the tail did not really appear to be tapering. I immediately thought meteorite & half expected to hear it impact somewhere east of Longview Washington. My impression was of a round electric blue, large object moving toward the eastern sky in very rapid stages.
- Calculations estimate meteor lit up 500,000 miles - November 30th, 2009
  SALT LAKE CITY -- Space buffs have some astounding new calculations about the gigantic fireball that lit up our part of the west two weeks ago. They now estimate the meteor lit up 500,000 square miles bright as day, and they've learned a lot more by studying some spectacular images.
  A lot of what people thought is turning out to be wrong. The Nov. 18 fireball was apparently much higher and farther away than it appeared, never closer than 120 miles to Salt Lake City, which makes its brightness all the more amazing.
- Bluish-green fireball sighted over northern Germany - 8 Dec 09
  Several eyewitnesses reported seeing a bluish-green fireball over northern Germany on Monday night ¡V possibly a large meteor burning up in the Earth¡¦s atmosphere, according to experts at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
- Colored ‘fireballs’ light up evening sky - December 11, 2009
  A “big ol’ honking fireball” was what Steve Yoder said he saw while he was on his way to Wailua from Waimea the night of Dec. 2. A “flaming green” object lit up the eastern sky right before 9 p.m.
- Mysterious night sky prompts questions of light's origins - December 11 2009
  GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Finding that the sky is blue is not unusual, unless it’s 1:15 in the morning.
  That’s what happened early Friday when observers from western Minnesota to northern Wisconsin reported seeing a bright blue or green flash in the sky.
- Apparent Meteor Zips Through Sky - December 12, 2009
- CURIOUS EVENTS IN NEBRASKA: "Last night, Dec. 16th at 9 p.m. CST, a very bright meteor lit up the completely overcast sky like lightning in southeast Nebraska," reports Trooper Jerry Chab of the Nebraska State Patrol. "It flashed for approximately 2 seconds and was followed by sonic booms and ground shaking, which prompted many calls by the public to law enforcement in a three county wide area." Meanwhile, the USGS says there was a magnitude 3.5 earthquake near Auburn, Nebraska, at 8:53 pm, about the same time and place as the fireball. This map shows the nominal epicenter:
  "If the earthquake is confirmed, as it appears to be, I think we have the most cosmic of coincidences: A large fireball around the same time of an earthquake," says Chab. "I am simply amazed!"
  One possible interpretation of these events is that a small asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere and caused the ground to shake when it exploded in mid- air. However, the timing might not be right. The quake seems to have preceded the fireball. Several readers have pointed out studies that associate lightning-like phenomena with earthquakes: #1, #2, #3. So, the earthquake might be responsible for both the shaking and the light show. Or it might be a big coincidence just as Chab
- Meteor hunt in Beijing continues - 2009-12-21
  The search continues for a full moon-bright meteoroid likely to have landed in west suburban Beijing on Wednesday in what astronomers said could lead to one of the biggest discoveries in Beijing this year.
  Witnesses in Beijing and nearby Tianjin recorded a clearly visible fireball- like meteorite descending near the west horizon of Beijing at 10:23 pm on Dec 16.
  The surveillance camera from the planetarium taped a 2-second footage of the fall phenomena, in which a bright shooting star, carrying a visible tail, flew towards the east and exploded into greater brightness before disappearing on the horizon.
- Meteor: Stargazers in a spin over fireball sighting - 23 December 2009
  A meteor which has passed through Earth's atmosphere is known as a meteorite, and experts say pieces of the space rock could now be scattered across a Fenland field.
  It was about four houses high and burning white. It went straight across quickly, into a field and disappeared. It had a vapour trail. It was unbelievable.
- Green meteor lights up night sky - 18 Dec 2009
  Secondary Data
- Half-Past Human - Fear Monday - 10-24-9
  Just so you understand how this stuff works in a very general sense the October 'turn' was spotted in the last several data runs and may be as much as 85% economic in nature.
  "latest immediacy data shows it as occurring at 5:12 am 10-26-2009 (time zones are a bitch so let us just say east coast time) and will likely be wrong by about 6 hours as it may actually be 'effective' on the paris meridian (the old rose line). a small visibility spike occurs at 7:02 am on the 26th so damn early Monday morning...."
  Seeing as it arises out of 'globalpop', I am not really expecting it to be a USA-centered event. Maybe something in Asia (huge mega quake or financial lockup - something like that - or heaven forbid Israel takes out the Bushir reactor complex.)
  I figure if the timing's right, it ought to be on the tongues of about half the world's population by say Tuesday noon US time if we've got the timing clues right.
  A small but noticeable impact, perhaps in the eastern hemisphere.
  Possibly it happened near Indonesia on 8 October but was not announced until 27 October.
- Surprise! Unknown Asteroid Buzzed Earth - November 9th, 2009
  A previously undiscovered asteroid came within 14,000 km of Earth last week, and astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before closest approach. On Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST a 7 meter asteroid, now called 2009 VA, came only about 2 Earth radii from impacting our home planet. This is the third-closest known non-impacting Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid.
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