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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 07:42 AM
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UFO Explodes Over Chinese City
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AN unidentified flying object, or UFO, passed across the large northwestern Chinese city of Lanzhou and apparently exploded in the suburbs, state media said.

The unusual sighting of two bright trails of light, reported by several witnesses, took place Saturday shortly before midnight, the China Times reported.

Police, working on the theory that it was a meteorite, went to investigate the matter, but they had found no evidence of what caused the nightly phenomenon, an officer told AFP by telephone.

A taxi driver told the paper he was in his car when everything suddenly became "as bright as day."

When he pulled over, he saw a fireball with a tail of about three metres darting across the sky, he said.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11685530%255E13762,00.html
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DebJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 07:46 AM
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1. a stray from the Geminid meteor shower, maybe?
couldn't see anything from here. York PA invariably gets cloudy at dark. Don't know what the hell it is, but seems like 90% of the time and more, we have clouds every damn night. Got up this morning to a brilliant, sunny sky, clear day, albeit a bit cold, but of the refreshing type, you know? But can't get a clear sky for events like the Geminids.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 07:47 AM
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3. Beat me to it.
:D
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 07:47 AM
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2. I'm pretty sure it was confirmed as a small meteor.
Edited on Tue Dec-14-04 07:48 AM by SmileyBoy
Probably a remnant of that shower we're seeing right now. Sometimes those sons of bitches go off course.
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