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So last night I’m dead asleep in my girlfriends arms…
It’s peaceful and quite, with a full moon over the lake…
THEN, about 2:45am, I hear an EXPLOSION! Woosh! Boom! And the house shook! I shot up in bed, and the girlfriend says, “What was that???!!!” I said it sounded like an explosion, but it was far away…
I got up and looked out… nothing but peace & quiet. So I told her that if was anything important, we’d hear about it on the news today.
Woke up this morning:
NEWS FLASH :
SEATTLE – A meteor about the size of a computer monitor lit up the Northwest sky early Thursday morning, setting off sharp booms that stunned witnesses.
“There was some question as to whether it was a piece of space junk burning up, but it was not,” said Geoff Chester, a spokesman for the Naval Observatory. “People always want to know, was it something we put up there coming down again? As far as I’ve been able to figure out, it was simply a rock falling out of the sky, as they do on occasion.”
Chester said it was a type of meteor called a bolide, one which appears bright like a fireball in the sky.
Toby Smith, a University of Washington astronomy lecturer who specializes in meteorites, said scientists were looking into the cause of the skybursts reported over a wide area about 2:40 a.m.
“It certainly could be a meteor. They’re extremely rare events,” Smith told KING 5 News. “To my knowledge, I don’t think anyone’s ever seen one fall in Washington state that’s made it all the way to the ground.”
An earlier report on KIRO Radio said that a meteorite might have hit near Chehalis, about 30 miles south of Olympia, but that turned out to be false, said Smith.
Smith said once a meteor hits the Earth’s atmosphere, it’s considered a meteorite. “But until you get the pieces and determined that they’re actually a meteorite, there’s really not much reasonable you can say,” said Smith.
Witnesses along a 60-mile swath of the sound from near Tacoma to Whidbey Island and as far away as Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, 260 miles to the east, said the sky lit up brilliantly. Many reported booming sounds as if from one or more explosions.
At Whidbey Island, Petty Officer Andrew Davis said he and other saw the skyburst.
“It made a pretty big bang,” Davis said.
VERY damn cool indeed, J!
I read about that. I wish I could have experienced that. Damn!
Hey Int,
what’s the pic suppose to show? I couldn’t tell.
That’s a picture from a shopping mall video camera… at night…
The flash in the backgraound is the meteor as it zooms over the far horizon… 😮
Integrity
Did you here multiple booms in a row?
If so what you are hearing is a slowing of an object breaking the sound barrier
Quite Cool I wish I had a chance to see it
BradGood thing the rocket scientist showed up..
I have heard sonic booms a couple of times in my life…
Once near NAS Whidbey Island (which they denied happened)…
Once in Texas when I spotted an SR88 Blackbird at about 40,000 feet heading toward the AFB in Louisiana…
This could have been a sonic boom… it woke me out of a dead sleep at 2:30 in the morning, so it’s hard to tell what I heard. But retrospectively, I’m sure that’s what it was because the whole house shook.
Good thing the rocket scientist showed up..
I knew I shouldn’t have said anything
I found a cool video of it
http://www.komotv.com/news/qtmovie.asp?ID=31552Atleast you know you’re not hearing things that are’nt there.
Was standing by my kitchen window once and heard a big bang then the windows shook.
I said to my mate “that’s not a gunshot or a car backfiring” – turns out the Real Ira blew up a taxi about 200 yards away outside the BBC building.
Meteor is much more to my liking.
We get Sonic booms regularly in Orlando when the space shuttle arrives. It’s a little unnerving the first few times if you didnt know the shuttle was coming in….
Sonic booms also screw up a good fishing trip…
When I saw that Black Bird, fishing had been great all day, then the “BOOM” and all the fish hit the bottom & never bit again for the rest of the day.
Awesome, would of loved to experience that as well!
Originally posted by EllenIng
Awesome, would of loved to experience that as well!
Awww, c’mon… you have Dean!That’s like an earth-shattering event every night! :inlove:
You have no idea!!
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