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Originally posted by charlyv
I was a witness to the bolide. December 9, 1965 in the early evening I was pumping gas into the rear of a car at a Sohio gas station on Cliffton Blvd in Rocky River Ohio. I was looking down at the bumper when I saw a really bright reflection that actually gave off heat. I turned and looked and saw this brilliant white-blue light streaming South West, breaking off pieces, with a luminecent tail. It disappeared behind buildings/trees. Looked like what what you see in fireball videos today. No turns, just a strait fast shot over the horizon and breaking up as it traveled. The 2 customers in the station were amazed, as well as the boss and myself, who could not stop talking about it the rest of the night. The next day, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, headlines: "Tri-State Meteor observed by thousands" and subtitles, "May have crashed in Pennsylvania.." or something like that. From my perspective, this was a big metor, however I certainly was never near where it landed.
[edit on 16-11-2009 by charlyv]
Originally posted by charlyv
If you look at the path and trajectory graphic that showed where this object landed, then there is no way that it could have been a meteor, since meteors cannot , and never have altered their course in flight.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Originally posted by charlyv
If you look at the path and trajectory graphic that showed where this object landed, then there is no way that it could have been a meteor, since meteors cannot , and never have altered their course in flight.
There are many problems with your analysis.
Let's start with the nice map you drew. Are you aware the bolide exploded in mid air and that fragments from the explosion went in different directions? Your map and your post don't seem to indicate such awareness.
It's well documented the bolide exploded, so if someone doesn't know about that, then they don't know much about the event. Here's the first page of a report based on many witness statements, 150 in total, 66 of which completed and returned forms with answers to questions about the event:
Originally posted by charlyv
Well, first off, I witnessed it, the bolide did not explode in mid air when it passed over me, it was shedding material behind it. There is also no credible witnessed evidence that the bolide exploded mid-air, so I do not know where you got that information.
Dec. 9, 1965
As a kid, I was pumping gas into a car at a SOHIO gas station, on
Clifton Blvd, Rocky River Ohio. It was in the afternoon, about 4 or 5PM.
All of a sudden everything got bright, like a flashbulb went off. I
remember looking at the bumper of the car that I was pumping the gas
into, and I could see the reflection of this blinding bright light. As i
turned to look up, it had just passed and there was another flash, and I
could see that whatever it was had split into 2 or 3 pieces.