NBC: Meteors Turned Night Into Day Over South Chicago Suburb In 2003
Back in March of 2003 flashes of light, and the sound of thunder rocked a Chicago suburb as a rain of meteors struck homes in the south Chicago suburb of Park Forest. Several homes were damaged. Scientist requested that all meteorites be located, and turned in for study.
As Reported By NBC
Callers flooded police departments, fire departments and various television stations overnight. NBC5's Kim Vatis, reporting from Park Forest, said it turned out to be a meteor shower "that forced a shower of panic calls" to authorities all over the Midwest..
In Park Forest, some people who were in their living rooms watching war coverage, thought the United States was under attack with the amazing light show produced by the meteors. It started with a blast of light and a thunderous sound, witnesses told Vatis. Then, chunks of meteorites dropped from the sky. One of the larger segments fell through the roof of a family home and into the bedroom where a young boy was sleeping.
As Shared by UFO News - A February 2007 Deorbit
BBC: Space Junk Leaves White Trail During Deorbit
Needless to say we live on a planet which possesses gravity, and objects rain down upon Earth every day. The Earth is orbited by thousands of pieces of space junk consisting mostly of old satellites. Slowly these object's orbits decay and most of these objects burn up harmlessly before ever reaching the ground. Many of these aerial displays are mistaken for alien space craft. NORAD tracks hundreds of thousands of objects left in orbit. Recently the Chinese tested an Anti Satellite Weapon which added tens of thousands of small very fast moving objects into Earth orbit. Objects of this type endanger crew aboard the space shuttle, the International Space Station, the United States top secret space plane, and future missions to space by all nations including the Chinese themselves.
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Meteor Light Flash Story and Photo by NBC
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