| ID | #1610708494 |
| Added | Fri, 15/01/2021 |
| Author | July N. |
| Sources | National UFO Reporting Center
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Hypothesis
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Initial data
At about 10: 45 p.m. in Alaska, a flash of light (like a flash from a camera) lit up the sky.
Then, I would say about a minute after the crash that shook the house on January 8, 1999 at about 22: 45 Alaskan time). I went to bed and my husband was watching TV downstairs; I saw a bright flash through the blinds and wondered what it was, but I just shrugged, like it was a big truck with a high beam coming up from a neighbor's house across the street.
At the same time, my husband noticed a bright flash that lit up the entire backyard. He shrugged, too. Then we both felt that rumbling feeling you get in an earthquake and then a big bang. It was so loud it literally shook the house, I screamed "what was that?" and we looked out the window thinking one of our neighbors had blown up!
Around 23: 05 that day, my neighbor called to say that his daughter had called him with a radio message that the Meteor had just crashed at Mile 143 on the highway, heading north.
I called a few friends in Eagle River, AK. (35 miles away) and they saw the flash too and felt the boom! My daughter called me, and she just heard on the radio that the state police want anyone who can pinpoint the exact location of the impact to call them, and that they want to reassure people that it's not a rocket!
That's all. Right now we're trying to get some information about it, but no one seems to know anything, and it's January 9, 1999 at 9: 00 am.
Duration of observation: 2 min.
Original news
Date: January 8 1999
Location: Palmer, Alaska
Time: 22:45
Summary: At abt. 10:45 PM Alaska;A Flash of light (like a flash from a camera)lighted up the sky; then I would say about a minute after a boom sounded that shook the house. On Jan. 8, 1999 at approx. 10:45 PM (Alaska Time) I had retired to bed and my husband was watching TV downstairs; I noticed a bright Flash through my blinds and I wondered what it was but just shrugged it off as possibly being a big truck with high beams on coming up from the neighbor’s house across the street. At the same time my husband noticed a bright flash that lighted up the whole back yard; he shrugged it off too. Then we both felt that rumbling feeling that you feel with a earth quake and then a big boom like an explosion of some kind. It was so loud it literally shook the house, I yelled; what was that and we looked out the window thinking one of our neighbors houses had blown up! About 11:05 PM the same night my neighbor called and said his daughter called him with a report on the radio that a “Meteor” just crashed at mile 143 on the Parks Hwy. (Heading North); I called some friends in Eagle River, AK. (35 miles from us) and they seen the Flash and felt the Boom Too! My daughter called me and she had just heard on the radio that the State Troopers wanted anyone that could pin-point the impact area to please call them and that they wanted to reassure people that it was not a missile! That’s about it; we’re trying to get some information about it now and no one seems to know anything and it is Now Jan.9,1999 at 9:00AM Duration: 2 min.
Source: National UFO Reporting Center
Hypotheses
Space debris
By space junk refers to all manmade objects and their fragments in space, which is already faulty, not functioning, and will never be able to serve any useful purpose. Currently in low earth orbits up to altitudes of about 2000 km is, according to various estimates, about 220 thousand (300 thousand according to the UN office for outer space Affairs, October 2009) man-made objects weighing up to 5000 tons.
In the case of UFOs, it is possible to expand this list lost cosmonauts things (tools, etc.).
Meteor
Meteor, "shooting star" is a phenomenon that occurs when small meteor bodies (for example, fragments of comets or asteroids) burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. A similar phenomenon of greater intensity (brighter than magnitude -4) it's called a fireball.
Booster, the rocket and tracks
For UFOs often take stages of rockets, parts of space ships burning in the atmosphere, the launches of various missile technology for military purposes, etc., and traces from them. They attract attention mostly in the dark, but in the day time have a greater aura of mystery.
Formation of the track of the launch vehicle occurs in the tropopause (the layer between the troposphere and stratosphere), which sharply reduced the vertical temperature gradient. The emergence of the so-called "jellyfish" influenced by water vapor, which are subject to enhanced condensation.
Investigation
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