http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/publish/article_8897.shtml
Air crash fears as fireball lights sky Shropshire Star (England) November 28, 2003 A Telford pensioner braced himself for an earsplitting explosion when he saw what he thought was an aircraft on fire crashing to the ground near The Wrekin today. The huge fireball - much bigger than the average falling star - lit up the dawn sky with a plume of sparks, said retired factory worker David Glass, 71, of Charles Road, Arleston, Wellington. But there was no explosion after all, and a Shropshire astronomer said Mr Glass had almost certainly seen a giant meteor. The sighting happened at 6.05am. "I saw this massive thing coming down out of the sky just over the back of The Wrekin, with a shower of sparks behind," he said. Kev Wildgoose, of Shropshire Astronomical Society, said: "It sounds like an extremely large meteor - something that is officially classed as a fireball." ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
