Another Michigan meteor?

I was coming back from Indiana with a buddy
around 8pm, just got on m60 of I 69 a
little north of Coldwater, ski got Bright
blue and we watched it hit the ground
probably less then 50 yards to our right in
a old farmhouse back yard. Whish I had a
dash cam. Had to be one of the most
amazing things we ever saw and heard.
Seems there must have been several meteors
around tonight?
 
I was sitting in my throne by a big window that oversees my vast estate out back, LOL, and didn't see or hear a thing. I received two phone calls though and was asked if I seen or heard it like they did. It was all over the news here this morning though. It did make me wonder, living 15 miles south of Flint, Mi.
 
I didn't see it,but I almost laughed out loud when I read the post. Reminded me of two of my cousins. Phil was always obsessed with meteorites and always wanted to find one. His younger brother Ken decided to have some fun and help him out with it.
He found an odd shaped black rock somewhere. When Phil wasn't home,Ken went over and dug a little trench in his yard,put the rock in it and burned the grass around it with a propane torch. Then he went home and waited.
When Phil found it,he called and told Ken to get over there,he'd found something. That's when everything went wrong. When he pulled in the driveway the state police were there and Phil was standing there with a phone in each hand. He had somebody from Michigan State University on one phone and Channel 8 News on the other. When Ken fessed up and told them what he'd done,the cop wasn't amused. He threatened to arrest him and have him prosecuted for perpetrating such a hoax. I guess he gave both of them quite a dressing down before he left. LOL
 
ROFL!! Great story Randy!

I've seen rocks that certainly looked like something from out-of-this-world, but were not, and others that looked very normal and ordinary, but were proven to be meteorites. If I went out looking for one, I'd probably trip on it, break a toe kicking it out of the way, and go home empty-handed. :roll:
 
Randy, do you remember Skylab?

A friend of ours was the concrete foreman for a large contractor in Norfolk, VA., and also loved to play pranks on folks!

He had a little accident on the job one day, and banged up the front end of his company truck. That day just happened to be the day that Skylab re-entered the atmosphere. I think it fell somewhere over Australia.

Anyhow, when his grandsons asked him what happened to his truck, he told them that a piece of Skylab hit it while it was parked on the site, but the piece was so hot that it burned up before he could touch it. Fifteen or so years later he died, and I overheard one of his grandsons tell that story, still believing it was true. When I told him it was a joke, he called his grandmother to ask her. She couldn't believe that they had ever taken it seriously in the first place, much less still 15 years later!
 
Ya,I remember when that came down. I wonder how long my son and daughter in law would have believed the story I told them a week or two ago if I hadn't been so amazed by their gullibility and told them I was kidding. My son was talking about how good a coffee cup of his was and how long it kept his coffee hot. I picked up my thermos off the counter and told him that I had iced tea in it and lost it off the tractor while I was raking hay. I said I must have baled it up,because I found it in the round bale feeder three months later and it still had ice in it. They didn't look like they doubted me for a minute.
 
Just my luck. We came in from evening chores a couple minutes before 8:00. Meteor came through a couple minutes after 8:00. Map they showed on tv this morning showed it passed directly overhead for us and rrlund. No flash of light no sonic boon noticed here.
 
I was sitting right here in my recliner and don't remember seeing anything. If there was a bright light,I guess I must have just thought it was a car going by.
 
Just fake news. It was media heads exploding when the White House doctor said President nnalert was in pretty good shape for the shape he is in.
 
I saw one on Christmas Eve coming home from my sisters. Oddly enough it was green and seemed closer than normal. A few years ago I was out for a walk one night and saw one just over head. That one was close enough I actually heard it. I stopped walking and just said "Wow....if I would have only know I would have filmed it"
 
A green trail is a sign of nickel burning up in the atmosphere. Most meteors are stony, meaning they contain very little, if any, metals.
 

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