I have seen a picture of one of these holes. It was in a pond in northern Montana. The hole was large, about 6 meters or so in diameter and in the picture, several men were standing around the edge of the hole which was striking in the frozen snow covered lake.
When looking at the picture, I cannot come up with a single other conclusion than a meteorite impact. I doubt that even a bulldozer breaking through the ice would make such a hole since much of the broken ice would still be floating around since the sinking tractor would not be able to pulverize the ice so it did not float in the hole in large chunks..
Later that summer, I know two divers looked around the bottom of the pond, but the depth of the mud probably made a visual search useless. I have been planning to dive the pond for about 5 years now, but I just never find myself in the area with some dive equipment, an underwater metal detector etc. during the warmer months of the year.
I have been trying to get my own copy of the picture, but it only ran in a small town newspaper printed a hundred or so km from the pond.
Cheers,
Martin
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 01:21 PM, Bj�rn S�rheim wrote:
Hello List,
In the early morning of 17th of January 1999, 4 years ago tomorrow!
a loud bang and a big hole was discovered in 18" thick ice on a
small lake in Atwater, Minnesota.
The hole was about 3 feet in diameter and no one could say for
shure what had caused it. Later some others were found on the same
lake. Divers went down, a turtle, earthly stones and some garbage
was found, but no meteorite (at least not in the winter of -99??).
I have seen dozens of articles about these holes, but personally
so far, NO picture of this enigma...
Since there are many reports of unexplainable holes on ice all over
the northern hemisphere, it would be interesting to compare
the looks and morphology of such holes to one another.
So, does anyone know of pictures of these holes, either on the web, or
elsewhere??
Was there in the end any firm conclusion of what had caused
the holes, btw?
Regards,
Bj�rn S�rheim
PS. Look up tomorrow, something is coming down at you! ( I hope )
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