Comments on: Meteors over Wisconsin?

By: R.U. Kidding

R.U. Kidding — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:41:01 +0000

People, for goodness sake, look at the video from the police car. That was no meteor. Ok, for the
sake of argument, let’s call it a meteor. Now, go get a copy of the police video that was stepped on and published by AOL. Even stepped on, you can plainly, clearly, undeniably see a craft or ballistic
object streak toward the “meteor” from the right lower quadrant, and explode out the left upper quadrant of the ‘meteor”. One second later there follows an explosion so immense it must have been above the Earth’s atmosphere, or the heat and shock wave would have created mass distruction. Don’t believe me; get the video and slow it down. Play it back and forth till your blue. The facts are there. Now, if that ballistic object did, as it appears, leave from the surface of the Earth, and intercept that “meteor” in 2.5 seconds, above the Earth’s atmosphere, it must have been moving far above 8,000 miles an hour.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:49:10 +0000

Wow, I felt the effects from the meteor when my farm animals went crazy, what will it be like when the New Madrid fault lets go?

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:01:02 +0000

Wow, light across wisconsin, meteor exploding, UFO, airplane, my dogs and farm animals went crazy that night, volcano exploding in Icelands, sonic booms across America, oil rig catches on fire off of Louisana, blue meteor accross the sky… reminds me of 1811 “Panther in the Sky”… New Madrid fault… intersting times that we live in. Governor of Arizona signs into law a stop and search law, reminds me of Schindlers list. 23/April/2010

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:33:09 +0000

All the reports of this meteor from the UW Geology Departments say that all the pieces that are being found 6 total so far that have been turned in to the UW are found in western Wisconsin around the livingston area. Which is good news because this is where my family farms are located and we have not let anyone on the land to hunt these yet because I will be searching to see if anything can be located. Also the UW Geology Dpeartment will have these 6 pieces on display until Sunday then they will be returned to there owners. They are saying that this has come from the Jupitor or Mars region after there studies. Wow hope there are more pieces would be very cool to fing a piece of this.

By: Rich Peet

Rich Peet — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:00:19 +0000

Regarding the 4/14/10 WI meteor.
I record audio for documenting wildlife near Grantsburg WI.
I checked my sound files today and noted the sonic boom from this event.
At this distant location the sound did not rise above 18 cycles per second. I record down to about 1 cycle per second. Volume was loud but below human hearing in pitch. Intermittent booms are seen over a period of 6.5 mins. It is hard to tell from the recording if there was one boom and then echos or multiple booms. From reports I read here I suspect this recording was made at about 150 miles distant.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:38:10 +0000

I saw it driving south on I35 through Chisago County in Minnesota at about 10:10 April 14. It came from west to east, from behind some clouds, crossing plain sight for a couple of seconds, then behind more clouds, then in plain sight again and over the horizon into Wisconsin. In plain sight it looked light a badminton shuttlecock, bright greenish-white, trailing red sparks. About the size of a nickle held at arms length. Very impressive.

By: Tim Hansen

Tim Hansen — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:26:55 +0000

I saw it last night at work. A little after ten. I was setting in the parking lot at Ocean Spray Tomah, Wi. parked facing almost due west. It came from the north heading south, horizontal . I watched it for several seconds in amazement. It was the neatest meteorite I’ve ever seen. It started out white,then blue,then green, before it broke apart. The view that I had, kicked the crap out of all the videos kickin’ around the net. I’m a metal detectorist too, and I wouldn’t bother looking for this thing. It burnt up. Now if it had came in a downward angle it would have hit some where, it came in flat.

By: jeremy kruegel

jeremy kruegel — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:29:01 +0000

i was traveling south in olmstad co mn, and around 10 :12 pm i noticed that it was getting brighter outside . i looked out the drivers side window and saw a large glowing ball above the clouds it lasted for at least 10 to 12 seconds and then got dark again. kind of freaky

By: Lashana

Lashana — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:05:44 +0000

I saw a meteor here in Memphis,Tn. the other night. I thought it was so cool. It wasnt that big but big enough I could see it. When I told people what I had seen, nobody believed me until Winconsin saw the huge meteor in the sky.

By: michelle

michelle — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:26:16 +0000

I live in central il and i saw a bright flash in the sky. it lite up the sky like a great big lightening bolt in the distance. it came from the north west. there was not a cloud in the sky…. i assume this “metor” is what caused it

By: Briana

Briana — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:52:37 +0000

oops.. i meant no plane

By: Rande Fisher

Rande Fisher — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:54:31 +0000

Im from Alden, New York and at around 10-11 pm yesterday i dont know if it was related but my house shook as did my girlfriends. pretty much my whole town lost power along with it.

By: UFO

UFO — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:51:29 +0000

This looks like…….
http://www.liveleak.com/player4.swf?config=http://www.liveleak.com/flash_config_new2.php?token=09f_1259107748%26embed=1

I felt the “Boom” in Platteville.

By: Briana

Briana — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:31:12 +0000

On Wed April 10th i was leaving my mothers house at around 10 pm. The sky was lit up by something falling. I looked up and seen a fireball or meteor with an orange tint with a trail of sparks then the whole sky turned blue. about 10 mins later the scanners in the town i live in were talking about a plane crash or ufo. I seen it and that was plane. this all happened in oelwein, iowa. It was falling west to east.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:56:34 +0000

April 14th around 10:07pm In Sun Prairie Wisconsin I witnessnessed a huge flare that resembled a firework gone awry. It was travelling North to South horizontally to the ground and appeared to be about 1/2 a mile off the ground. It had a brilliant ball almost white to light green that lit up the sky and surrounding back clouds . I was looking west on Main Street and observed it lasting about 2 -3 seconds. It had a trail of bronze to gold looking sparks and began to black out and then reappear for one last blast that broke it into several smaller pieces in various colors too quick to describe. I have never witnessed anything in the sky as spectacular as this ever. I wondered what it was and now today two more individuals in Sun Prairie confirmed they saw it too. The news reports indicate it was a meteor .

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:14:59 +0000

Getting ready for bed last night 4-14-2010, saw very bright light… seconds later a powerful thunder-like sonic boom… checked weather reports, no clouds or rain…

Just 10 miles north, the light was so bright, it filled the entire sky. The boom was so powerful, some residents felt their windows were going to break. At a local school board meeting, the flash and boom frightened the attendees and it shut down/restarted the school’s ventilation system.

Just 20 miles north of me, near the WI River, there were about 9 different fires in treetops along a 1 mile stretch of road. They were on fire from pieces of the meteor. One tree was actually “run through” and cut in half from it.

I am near Highland, WI (20 minutes west of Dodgeville)

By: James

James — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:22:25 +0000

I saw this amazing green spectacle of light near Sheboygan, Wisconsin..I was on my way home from work and saw it in the western direction of the sky. It was around 10:15 CENT (GMT-6). It was pretty amazing, the green became more vivid and eventually you could see a trail and then it broke and dissapated.

It was pretty amazing!

By: Barb

Barb — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:25:24 +0000

My daughter and I were sitting on the couch around 10 pm last night when we saw the sky light up and then large booms. I thought a huge storm was coming. My husband had been out in the yard with a neighbor. He came in and said, “That was no falling star. That thing was huge!”

We live in Spring Green, WI.

By: Christian Fredrickson

Christian Fredrickson — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:20:11 +0000

I was in Stevens Point at the University with some friends heading back to a dorm. We heard screaming from other people on reserve st (it was 75 out so there were a lot of people walking around), and a friend pointed up to the object. It appeared to me to have multiple lights on it, and a green smoke coming from it. It looked on fire, and about 3 seconds after seeing it, it had an explosion that lit up the sky. I lost it soon after because it went behind a building. We didn’t think meteor when we saw it, we thought plane crashing.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:42:57 +0000

I saw light from my bedroof last night in Strawberry Point, Iowa. I thought is was lightning. Heard an explosion shortly after. I thought it was thunder.

By: ralene

ralene — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:22:31 +0000

My children and I saw it around 9:50 in Deforest. It was huge. I thought it was a plane on fire.
The orange and yellow fire-glow off of it was amazing. The pictures on the internet do not do it justice as it looked like a large black object surrounded by a fire ring with “sparks” coming off of it with a long white tail. It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:21:43 +0000

I live in La Crosse and at the time was outside in the backyard. I was looking at the spot we were putting a new shed when i though someone turned the kitchen light on which shines above the spot. I looked up and saw a fire ball crouzing through the sky. It lit up the whole sky with a greenish light (almost like thunder/lightening when it lights up the sky at times)… and was actually pretty freaky!

By: Rhiannon

Rhiannon — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:36:30 +0000

I thought it was going to hit our car! It was my golden birthday. Wow! Near Sauk City. Everyone else going home from my birthday party saw it, too.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:26:44 +0000

I saw this as well last night very bright colors. I live in Marshall, Wi and to think that a piece or some of this landed somehere between Marshall, Sun Prarie or Cottage Grove. Lucky me to have the day off. My $2000.00 Metal detector and me will be hunting and looking today. What a sight will post any finds on this sight today if any are found.

By: D

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:25:52 +0000

everyone here in E Dubuque IL saw a huge flash of light which we all just figured was just lightning later we heard of a possible meteor, “the whole sky just lit up” that’s what we saw from the supper club that I work at (which is all windows) , but everyone in the place went … wow what was that? it was oddly bright but being from the mid west we just shrugged it off