It was around 630PM and I have 3 co workers that saw it, nobody knew what it was, but said it was a big bright light that was falling

1/24/2007 1:49:43 PM

I was too busy stalking the leprechaun that won't stop eating my mushrooms.




......I'll get that bastard

1/24/2007 1:53:18 PM

UFO= Unidentified Falling Object?

1/24/2007 1:53:24 PM

come to think of it, i did wake up with a sore anus this morning.

1/24/2007 1:57:38 PM

srsly what do you expect from this thread?

1/24/2007 2:04:41 PM

IT WAS A WEATHER BALLOON

1/24/2007 3:06:54 PM

SWAMP GAS

1/24/2007 3:10:44 PM

EMCE was up to his old tricks again

see, message_topic.aspx?topic=425546

[Edited on January 24, 2007 at 3:30 PM. Reason : WE'ER BEING INVAAAAAAAADED]

1/24/2007 3:15:04 PM

Quote :

"it was a big bright light that was falling"

you mean a flare?

1/24/2007 3:33:09 PM

they're going to Animate the dead and we're going to have to make one of the school buildings a fort against the dangerous zombies ...


ATTN : Zombies attack thread please bttt

1/24/2007 3:33:52 PM

Quote :

"you mean a flare?"

Could also be a shooting star or other piece of space debris

1/24/2007 4:19:12 PM

I used to see this all the time at Camp Lejune. Paratroopers coming in use a light like this.

1/24/2007 4:20:53 PM

1/24/2007 5:32:38 PM

I saw it. I was on my way home from work and saw it on the Beltline near Hillsborough...it was crazy-big!

1/24/2007 6:47:16 PM

Based on the time I'd say it was the International Space Station. Dusk is the best time to see space debris.
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Nevermind, the last ISS pass was Jan 19. Next one will be Jan 30.
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It was probably one of these russian rocket bodies:
Search Period Start: 12:00 Tuesday, 23 January, 2007
Search Period End: 01:00 Wednesday, 24 January, 2007
Observer's Location: Raleigh ( 35.7720°N, 78.6390°W)
Local Time: Eastern Standard Time (GMT - 5:00)
Limiting magnitude: 3.5

Click on the time of max. altitude to get a star chart and other pass details. Satellite Starts Max. Altitude Ends
Name Mag Time Alt. Az. Time Alt. Az. Time Alt. Az.
Okean O Rocket 2.9 18:13:05 10° SSE 18:17:24 54° ENE 18:21:43 10° N
Cosmos 1222 3.3 18:13:58 10° N 18:17:09 65° E 18:20:19 10° SSE

If it was the Okean(2.9 is pretty bright), it was probably a Zenit rocket stage:




[Edited on January 24, 2007 at 7:24 PM. Reason : .]

1/24/2007 7:01:43 PM

This thread is worthless without pics.

1/25/2007 8:45:03 AM

Per Drudge:

http://www.wyff4.com/news/10841468/detail.html

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/breaking_news/16539378.htm

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/staticarticles/article53936.html

1/25/2007 12:38:28 PM

^interesting, but I noticed that those were for wednesday. This happened on Tuesday towards the northern sky in relation to NC state

1/25/2007 3:00:57 PM

Quote :

"Take note, the Federal Aviation Administration had no reports of plane crashes. Huntersville police also dispatched an officer to look for the mysterious object: No immediate reports of little green men with ray guns. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "

1/25/2007 3:13:43 PM

ZOMG TEH RUSKEES ARE INVADERING

1/25/2007 5:11:58 PM

there was actually a UFO sighting in Iran recently, too

that was on Drudge a week or so back, too

1/25/2007 6:35:43 PM

I saw it! I figured it was just a flare or something though

1/25/2007 6:54:28 PM

i saw it too.....i was on avent ferry at the avent ferry/western stoplight.......saw that thing light up and fall quick over towards hillsborough st area......what was it?

1/25/2007 8:34:02 PM

no Robbie, NOT LIKE EUROPE!

1/25/2007 8:38:40 PM

firecrackers or a shotgun blast

1/25/2007 10:36:34 PM

probably some meteors/meteorites or whatever they're called when they're inside the atmosphere

1/25/2007 11:33:19 PM

Someone tell me where to find those meteors. I needs some loot.

1/26/2007 12:22:02 AM

Yea, sounds like a meteor if it was that bright and that fast. There were no scheduled reentries that night.

1/26/2007 2:14:40 AM

this reminds me of the peekskill meteorite back in 1992 (they are called a meteor in the atmosphere, and a meteorite when it hits the ground)..

it was caught on camera by a bunch of people, as it happened on a friday night and most of the video came from high school football games....check out this compilation of videos of it...amazing

http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/~pbrown/Videos/peekskill.htm

it landed on someone's car

[Edited on January 26, 2007 at 5:36 AM. Reason : yep]

1/26/2007 5:34:35 AM

i saw it and it was big a s hell. I was in Cary near Perimeter Park and it looked like a very large meteor.

1/26/2007 6:35:09 AM

I heard on the radio this morning that there were rocket tests being held somewhere around Norfolk, VA during that time. Some people report fast moving streaks across the sky and others report slow moving falling streaks, which would be consistent with a rocket launching and then descending.

1/26/2007 10:24:10 AM

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/16549474.htm



[Edited on January 26, 2007 at 10:31 AM. Reason : pic]

1/26/2007 10:30:56 AM