Date: 6/21/99 10:52:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time From: Dee777@aol.com Reply-to: earthchanges@onelist.com To: earthchanges@onelist.com, ufos-unbound@onelist.com From: Dee777@aol.com In a message dated 06/21/1999 11:39:56 AM Central Daylight Time, earthcng@earthlink.net writes: << Confirmed - Meteorite Explodes In Australia...06/21/99 by Mitch Battros (ECTV) Thanks to you, our viewers, we have confirmed this breaking news story. This is another hugh event not to be found with any of the mainstream media. Saturday night I was sent a first hand eye witness report from Mella Martin who lives in the area. I tried feverishly to find collaborating information. No one was carrying the story. So I sent an email to all our Ausi friends. Finally, just in this morning, I received the below article from our friends down under, Stan and Holly Deyo. Sorry folks, it is all part of journalism. A story must be collaborated by more than one source. It appears this may be one of the largest meteors to cross our skies in some time. It is not yet confirmed of impact. More as information comes in. _________________________ Meteorite has them screaming By Paul Toohey 21jun99 INSIDE the community hall, the newly formed country-gospel band was nervously going through its repertoire. Outside, people began screaming in horror. The band knew it wasn't that bad. The night sky over the Northern Territory desert community of Lajamanu had lit up bright blue, red and yellow. A close-passing meteorite - described as "enormous" - shook houses, sent dogs crazy and had shrieking people running in every direction. "We had a star coming down - right on top of us," said Lajamanu Council leader, Doug Johnson, who was sitting outside on the basketball court with his kids. "We were all frightened and we all went running wild. After the flash of light and the bang, we waited for maybe two, three minutes. Next thing everything was shaking. We never seen something like that before." It was last Friday night, at 9.30. Lajamanu is 500km south of Darwin - but the meteorite was seen as far away as Alice Springs, where a truck driver heading north out of town watched the celestial payload progressing and disintegrating from east to west across the sky. He quickly reported it to the Meteorite Hotline in Melbourne. Hotline operations manager Ross Dowe said the meteorite took about 30 seconds to cross the sky: "Which indicates to us it was enormous." It is not certain whether the explosion and tremors, which came from just west of the town, were caused by sonic boom or the meteorite hitting earth. On Saturday, Lajamanu store manager Jim Butler took a light aircraft with spotters and zig-zagged over a big area looking for signs of impact. The desert is low and rocky. Mr Butler said any aberration on the landscape would usually be fairly visible, but "we saw nothing except for a couple of fires - and they may have been natural grass fires". Mitch Battros Producer - Earth Changes TV http://www.earthchangesTV.com See our "comets/asteroids" page: http://www.earthchangesTV.com/comets/index.htm