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Thursday, June 03, 2004

Flashes, booms reported over Western Washington

Bright flashes and sharp booms were reported in the skies over the Puget Sound area early Thursday, and aviation officials said a meteor may have been the source.

An early report that a meteor might have hit near Chehalis, about 90 miles south of the city, turned out to be false, a University of Washington scientist who specializes in meteorites said


Okay, you might think it was just a meteor, nothing to see, move along move along.. and then.. nearer to the end of the article.

A man who identified himself as University of Washington astronomy professor Bradley Hammermaster told KIRO Radio a team was being assembled to head for an area where the meteor was believed to have hit, but that call appeared to be a hoax, Smith said.

No one by the name of Hammermaster is known to the astronomy department, and the description given by the caller to the station of the object - an automobile-sized piece of a small car from a piece of the larger Trilene meteor - was clearly bogus, Smith added


So, what exactly did happen? are there going to be more of these happenings? if it was not a meteor what object was it?

2 Comments:

  • At June 3, 2004 at 11:23 AM, Blogger f said…

    I don't see the Hammermaster part in linked article anymore. Was it removed?

    Anyway, mysterious indeed.

     
  • At June 3, 2004 at 9:43 PM, Blogger Neko said…

    Hahaha... yeah, from what i can see it was scrubbed from the article.

    http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000524192
    This version was picked up by dozens of news sites, most of which later deleted the Hammermaster references.

    the crash might have been hoaxed but the flash and stuff sure wasn't.. humm... oh well, even if it was a alien craft we won't know.. meteor the size of a computer monitor i read..

     

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