That has to be the best use of a cat I have ever heard of.....Norway sounds like they need some better entertainment to cut some of the boredom. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Meteorite Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 3:39 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Suspected Fireball Over Norway Was ... A Cat
> > > http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=516591 > > UFO was ... cat > Aftenpoften (Norway) > March 26, 2003 > > Most observations of mysterious flying objects in the sky are eventually > identified and explained, but the UFO and suspected meteorite over Lardal, > Norway got the highly unusual solution of being attributed to a cat. > > Observers heard an explosion and spotted a fireball in the night sky over > Lardal on March 14. Now authorities have managed to puzzle out the evidence, > and say a housecat caused the sighting, NRK Vestfold reports. > > Sheriff Lars Helge Sogn believes a cat climbed up a high-tension power line > and burst into flames after striking the high voltage cable with its tail. > > The heat from the short circuit caused the wooden mast to burn, and it is > most likely this that appeared to be a fireball on the horizon on the night > of the mysterious sighting. > > jhe local electricity company recorded no power outage due to the fire, which > made it harder to unravel the mystery. But the discovery of a dead cat under > the power mast made them double-check, and a four-second glitch in their > records was found on the evening of the 14th. > > Before the feline solution the local sheriff had contacted Oslo University > astrophysicists, only to find that eyewitness reports of a fireball lasting > up to half an hour could not be a landing meteorite. > > Cats don't burn so long either, but part of the wooden mast set alight by > the unlucky tabby is now considered to be the explanation for the local > mystery. > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
