[meteorite-list] Satellite Reentry Witness

[Martin Horejsi]

Hi All,

I too have seen a Soviet satellite (Cosmos 1457) launching-rocket burn
its way across the evening Missoula, Montana sky on April 23, 1983.

I also saw the great Teton Fireball of August 10, 1972.

Oh, and I also saw a UFO while I was at a outdoor Neil Young concert
in Aspen, Colorado a couple summers ago.

Cheers,

Martin

On 6/2/06, Larry Lebofsky <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Hi:

>

> Make that 2!

>

> Sorry for the delayed response, but weeks behind reading all of my email.

>

> Long ago, when I was a graduagte student (early 1970s), two of us were driving

> up Mt. Wilson (north of Pasadena, CA) to observe. We saw something out of the

> window and actually had time to stop. I loked like a bolide, but was moving

> relatively slowly. At first we thought it could have been a plane or something.

>

> When we got to the top of the mountain, we happened to mention it to some of

> the other astronomers up there. Ten minutes later, I was live on a local (Loos

> Angeles) radio station as an expert on things falling from the sky!

>

> I had no idea what the heck it was, but given that it was too slow for a

> bolide (I thought) I took a chance and said that maybe it was a satellite.

>

> Sure enough, the next day, the newspaper quoted me, but said that it had been

> identified by "government officials" as a Russian booster!

>

> At least I got one thing right as a graduate student.

>

> Larry

>

> Quoting Kevin Fly Hill <khill at cpsmedical.com>:

>

> >  "How many on this list have ever seen a satellite

> > reentry?  I'd be surprised if the answer is more than one."

> >

> > You might want to start with at least a startled look.

> >

> > March 25, 1988.  Big'un -- Discarded Soviet cargo vessel came in over Texas

> > (on it's way to Canada).  Wildest thing I've ever seen in the sky.

> > Witnessed by about two hundred people in Tyler, Texas at public gathering.

> > This thing had reports in from all over the country.  It was everything that

> >

> > the Space Shuttle was except at night - A major piece with multiple chunks

> > giving off red, green and blue streaks.  It moved South to North straight

> > overhead going down to the horizon.  I had just turned to wave goodbye to

> > some friends as I was leaving a tour of historic homes -- The McClendon

> > Home, when I spotted the fireball.  I began shouting to alert the other

> > folks and we all watched it slowly move off.

> >

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