http://www.canoe.ca/WesternTicker/CANOE-wire.Meteor-Streaks.html
Ball of fire seen in Western Canada sky was space debris, not meteor Canoe November 28, 2002 VICTORIA (CP) -- A ball of fire that streaked across the southern B.C. sky Thursday was space debris. NORAD has told the Canadian military the burning light came from a Russian rocket body re-entering the earth's atmosphere. Navy public affairs spokesman Gerry Pash said nothing went wrong with the rocket. It was just a straightforward re-entry. Pash said the space junk could be seen across much of Western Canada and perhaps as far inland as Montana. Residents from Vancouver Island to the Okanagan flooded radio stations with phone calls after the sighting at 6:15 a.m. PST. Witnesses said the burning pile of debris had a gigantic tail. "I saw about five of them and the front one was just blazing," a Nanaimo man said. "And I knew it wasn't a plane because it wasn't dropping. It was like a horizontal flight." ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
