05-01-2004 23:26									#1
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Anyone from Spain have more on this?

MADRID, Spain (Reuters) -- Hundreds of witnesses reported seeing fireballs cross the skies of northern Spain on Sunday in what authorities said may have been a disintegrating meteorite, Spanish radio said.

The bright flashes were spotted at around 6 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) in a swathe across the northern half of Spain, from the eastern city of Valencia to the northwestern pilgrimage site of Santiago de Compostela.

In some cases, objects were reported to have fallen to earth.

"I left the house at around 12 minutes to six. I heard a big explosion, like an earth tremor, and a white cloud of smoke formed around a nearby mountain which took a long time to disappear," a local official from the northern region of Palencia told the radio.

Civil Guard officials told the radio an object had plunged from the skies in the northern province of Leon.

Spain's civil aviation authority ruled out the possibility of a plane crash.

Jose Angel Docobo, director of the University of Santiago's observatory, said the phenomenon could have been caused by a rock orbiting the sun which had collided with Earth.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/...reut/index.html

	05-01-2004 23:39									#2
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oh no the apocalypse!!! we're all doomed!

p.s. I'll respond again after I read the article.

	05-01-2004 23:41									#3
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Dammit. I told our alien overlords-to-be to angle their ships and adjust its speed so it wouldn't leave such an obvious fireball! Dammit, dammit, dammit. So much for the stealth part of the invasion from deep space.

*cough*

Ahem, in all seriousness, it sounds like a meteor breaking up after entering the upper part of the atmosphere. Such incidents can be visually stunning (I saw one myself years ago near my parents' place).

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Beagle perhaps?

	05-01-2004 23:49									#5
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quote: Beagle perhaps?

	06-01-2004 00:05									#7
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ALF has already taken the credit

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ALF?

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They said Spain has been persecuting animals for far too long, namely Bulls.

	06-01-2004 00:10									#10
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it was albert qaeda

NUKE SPAIN!

	06-01-2004 00:16									#11
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	06-01-2004 00:21									#12
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The Spanish scientists say that this is "normal", where "normal" means "if a meteorite bigger than usual enters the atmosphere this kind of fireballs will be seen in the sky" or, to say in another words that it is the normal effect of a not very common cause.

The romantic people see here the anouncement of the wizard kings coming (They will give gifts to the children and not so children of Spain the night from 5th to 6th of January) and the pessimistics see this as a bad omen for Spain and the general elections of March

	06-01-2004 01:00									#13
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You fools! Obviously, its a failure of the latest american stealth spyplanes during illegal overflights of Europe (in preparation for the upcoming takeover). Dean has already been quoted as saying 'its all Bush's fault'

	06-01-2004 01:36									#14
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You admit to US failure? You commie, you.