that something that big didn't trigger calls to 911.

It's been squashed to fit the column width. Look at the box with the "10" in it. It's supposed to be square.

proposed by the teabags in Phoenix!

Not a day goes by...

(See: second slo-mo pic)

They only report
no investigation, NOTHIN

lightning experts to find out if it could be some type of ball lightning.

QUIZ: Which four words of that will FOX use as an explanation?

and make me laugh. Thank you my friend.

thing to pull off but on the other hand on Sunday there is a screening of an award winning documentary about the 1997 UFO phenomena over Phoenix so this unexplained event seems oddly coincidental.



http://www.examiner.com/paganism-in-phoenix/arizona-screening-of-the-phoenix-lights-documentary-on-march-11-2012

I loved watching the authorities stepping all over themselves trying to come up with explanations for what we saw. My personal favourite was the old standby "swamp gas", and going downhill from there.

I wish I had kept a copy of the paper the next day.

wondering what they will come up with?

Plasma and charged particles from solar flares produce auroras. Maybe the bright explosion had to do with solar flares too.

http://www.livescience.com/18985-solar-flare-active-sun-storms.html

But at least it's a theory. I'm baffled how the story has been dropped.

figured out for sure what it was.

For example,

http://www.space.com/7554-meteor-explosion-lights-sky-utah.html

bet it was. It certainly makes sense.

Thanks for the link.

There was a sound like a rocket going through the air, then a bright flash and a loud explosion. At first, I thought that an airplane had crashed, but the local news said it was a meteor explosion.

near the ground?

it can explode when it hits the ground.

When it's really large, it can create a big hole in the ground:

http://www.meteorcrater.com/

Sorry, got carried away. Been holding it in all day long.