Hi Rob!
Well I'm a ham radio operator and one night a few years ago I had
a conversation with a guy on a "UFO" net who swears HE had a
meteorite and actually seen it come down. I asked him to tell his
story. He said he saw it come down ON FIRE, it threw sparks all the
way down to the ground next to him and it was red hot and smoking!
WOW!!!! He had a photo of it on a web site and it was obviously NOT a
meteorite of coarse. I just checked and the photo is gone now. I
tried to explain to him there was no way it was on fire and sparking
but he got fairly upset with me for not believing him. Either he was
full of it or someone was playing with him!
Regards!
Tom
On Feb 3, 2007, at 11:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<< I was wondering, have any of you been approached with any really
absurd meteowrongs? >>
Just one or two!
Here's my all time favourite meteowrong email..............
"On Mar 5 1989 at 705 pm, I was tooling north on HWY 71 in Loisiana
when i felt and heard a sharp snap that sounded like a bullet
hitting. I got out of the car and looked for bullet holes but
didn't see any. I continued, on the return i noticed one of my
headlights was out. (It turned dark) In the am i began replacing
the headlight when i found the hole i had missed the last night but
the angle didn't look right. i stuck a 1/2 " dowel in the hole and
figured it had entered at about 5 degrees east and 10 degrees
north. I removed the headlight and found this little critter
inside. The object had pierced the headlight, bounced off the
frame of the car and ended up inside the headlight. I immediately
suspected islamic terrorists, of course. (i was way ahead of the
curve on this, i spent time in the middle east) being forced to
abandon this theory (it required a muslem shooting a rock gun from
a heilocopter) i concluded that it was a meteorite. had i been in
a little more of a hurry it would have entered at my clavicle and
exited at my ...well never mind. the picture is poor, it feels
like it's made of metal and has little pits in it. it's about 5/8".
i was hoping someone could tell me what it is. i keep it to remind
me of the fickle finger of fate. i found (on the web) some nickle
iron ones that look like it, course i found some nickle iron ones
that didn't."
Can anyone beat that??
Rob Elliott
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