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Air Traffic Monitoring => Aviation Audio Clips => Topic started by: jeffcyn on April 15, 2010, 05:02:06 PM

Title: Midwestern fireball - probably meteor
Post by: jeffcyn on April 15, 2010, 05:02:06 PM

Several news agencies reporting this suspected meteor:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/15/midwest.fireball/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/15/midwest.fireball/index.html)
http://www.wisn.com/news/23156299/detail.html (http://www.wisn.com/news/23156299/detail.html)

Found some talk of it on the KMKE archive.  Pilots enjoyed the show but it didn't rattle the contollers!  :-)

Title: Re: Midwestern fireball - probably meteor
Post by: joeyb747 on April 15, 2010, 09:41:44 PM

Here is a short news vid:

http://www.comcast.net/video/meteors-light-up-midwest-sky/1469421410/Comcast/1469470547/

Title: Re: Midwestern fireball - probably meteor
Post by: Cap747 on April 19, 2010, 03:40:44 PM

Quote from: jeffcyn on April 15, 2010, 05:02:06 PM

Several news agencies reporting this suspected meteor:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/15/midwest.fireball/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/15/midwest.fireball/index.html)
http://www.wisn.com/news/23156299/detail.html (http://www.wisn.com/news/23156299/detail.html)

Found some talk of it on the KMKE archive. Pilots enjoyed the show but it didn't rattle the controllers!  :-)

It appears to have missed the Eyjafjoll volcano by a inch ! Bad alien aim......