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Nixa Boom
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Mystery Boom in in Christian County, Missouri
Law enforcement officers and firefighters searched but didn’t find the source of a loud noise on Tuesday night. People who heard it around 9:45 said it sounded like an explosion, very close thunder or a sonic boom.
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New Zealand Meteor
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A meteor lit up the Hawke's Bay sky at 9.45 last night and burnt up with a boom that rattled windows.
"It was like an earthquake, but without the shaking," said an Akina woman.
An Otane woman said her father saw a "huge, big fireball with a long tail" overhead and heading towards...
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Slate Islands Crater
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The ~7-km-wide Slate Islands group represents the heavily eroded central peak of a ~32 km diameter (from bathymetric data) complex impact crater. The 436 million year old Slate Islands meteorite crater is located in northern Lake Superior ~10 km south of Terrace Bay and ~150 km east of Thunder Bay,...
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Norway UFO
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Calls streamed in to local police stations during the night after an unidentified flying object darted over the night skies in northern Norway. A top astronomer, though, thinks it was another meteorite.
Several police districts logged reports from members of the public who observed "somethin...
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Hebrides fireball
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A meteor shower sparked fears a large aircraft was crashing into the sea off the Hebrides.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency in Stornoway received dozens of calls on Friday night about a fireball falling from the sky.
Lifeboat crews in the Western Isles were alerted as emergency services pr...
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Asteroids Philbland, Mattgenge, & Sephton
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Asteroids in orbit between Mars and Jupiter have gained a new identity this month after being named after three Imperial College London meteorite experts. Drs Phil Bland Opens in new window, Matthew Genge Opens in new window and Mark Sephton Opens in new window are among around fifty scientists hon...
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Japanese Meteor
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A large fireball was seen by many witnesses on the 9th August at 23:28 JST (14:28:41 UT) in Japan.
The bright meteor was recorded by several CCD cameras in the Fireball Network in Japan.
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Outer Banks Booms
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Buildings shook and windows rattled with a series of loud booms heard up and down the northern beaches of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, US, shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday.
They may have been caused by aircraft breaking the sound barrier.
"The only thing we can attribute it to is offsh...
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Philippine Explosion
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There was no plane crash or any explosion of an aircraft Tuesday night, the Air Transportation Office said yesterday, after residents in some towns in northern Cebu reported such sightings.
ATO tower chief Manuel Tompar said all the 157 commercial flights between 11 p.m. Monday and 11 p.m. Tuesd...
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Seaham UFO
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A couple marked their housewarming party by releasing floating paraffin lanterns into the night sky — and found themselves part of a UFO investigation.
When Paul McKinney, and Emma Henfrey, from Seaham, Co Durham, UK, heard that police had received sightings of glowing lights in the sky, incl...
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Possible Libyan crater
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Location of as yet unreported impact crater
Latitude 21°21'26.26"N Longitude 20°45'12.24"E
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North Texas meteor
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The Channel 8 switchboard was bombarded with calls overnight from viewers who said they saw a strange, bright light in the North Texas sky after 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Callers described it as a bright orange oval with a blue lightning coming from it.
"I was out moving my trash cans and noted a flash...
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Morokweng crater
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A large fragment has been found of an asteroid that punched a 160km-wide hole in the Earth's surface.
The beachball-sized fossil meteorite was drilled out of South Africa's 145-million-year-old (± 0.8) Morokweng crater.
It is a unique discovery because large objects are widely be...
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Prince Rupert Meteorite
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The first new meteorite identified in Canada this year is also one of the smallest ever found in the country and is the highlight of a British Columbia woman’s life-long interest in space rocks, after she discovered the specimen in 1968.
The University of Calgary-based Prairie Meteorite Searc...
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Broxbourne UFO
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Close encounters of the Broxbourne kind
Was it a bird, was it a plane, a shooting star or a real life UFO? Mercury readers have flooded our newsdesk with calls to tell how they spied a mysterious object in the skies over the borough.
After we told how a 29-year-old Hoddesdon man spotted an Unident...
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