"About half the people only heard it because of the sonic boom – the explosion – and people were thinking maybe it's a plane crash or something like that. They ran outside and would see this cloud of smoke that was expanding in the upper atmosphere that was visible for tens of minutes," said Young.
(Bill, did u hear sumthin......
)"The people who saw it described it as a flaming baseball or a Roman candle with all sorts of flames and trailing smoke arching across the sky and then detonating in a final explosion. Sounds like a spectacular sight."
(Chicken Little unavalable for comment....)
Astronomers say this type of spectacle doesn't happen often.
"We've been trying to find other references to meteors that were bright enough to be seen in the daytime, and there's a handful throughout all recorded history in the Prairies at all. There was one in Manitoba maybe 20 years ago," said Young.
I was thinking, if this hit a metropolitan city i bet the headline would be :
MISSLE STRIKE ON (City or Country of ur choise)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
or SUDDEN BOMBING IN THAT ONE PLACE!!!!!!!!!!
or USA BOMBS BLAH BLAHVILLE!!!!!!!!! I
Anyhoo,Would have been cool to see i bet..... http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2...r-mb050426.html