[meteorite-list] Mysterious Object Brightens Night Sky in Wyoming

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:13:26 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <200612112013.MAA19109_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.casperstartribune.net/news/casper/b586ffecd80d67098725724100663a34.txt

Mysterious object brightens night sky
Casper Star-Tribune (Wyoming)
December 11, 2006

Deputies with the Natrona County Sheriff's Department responded to
numerous calls of a large fireball streaming through the night sky early
Friday morning, but were unable to find any trace of the object.

According to the sheriff's office, several county residents in the Muddy
Mountain and Bates Creek areas on Casper Mountain called to report a
large, flaming object traveling eastward at a high rate of speed at
approximately 6:50 a.m.

"It probably passed right over us on its way to somewhere else," Sgt.
Mark Sellers said.

Sellers said a caller described it as an aircraft on fire, but the
airport had no reports of aircraft in the area and no emergency beacons
sounded. Others thought it was a meteorite or a UFO.

Sheriff's deputies searched the mountain but couldn't find any evidence
of the object's impact.
Received on Mon 11 Dec 2006 03:13:26 PM PST