Massive fireball reported across Midwestern sky on Wednesday night. Internet chatter states that it hit Wisconsin, but could be seen in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. It's taken a bit to analyze
the footage but we've reached a couple of conclusions.
The official report is that it's a meteor from the Gamma Virginids shower which reached peak activity Wednesday and Thursday. But I am, personally rather skeptical about that considering a
shower suggests more than one object and there were absolutely no reports about other sightings during this "peak activity". It is curious, however, that a phenomenon this large was felt in the New Madrid fault area, leading some to believe it might signal some form of seismic event. And considering the frequency and degree of such events over the last couple of weeks, this is an understandable worry.
Now another point that is made is that some of the footage shows two contrails coming towards the explosion from opposite directions, entering the large portion of light just before explosion. The sonic boom accompanying it make a meteor explosion questionable (though not entirely impossible). And there is a secondary bright object to the right of the larger object. There is a twenty-second lapse in
this loop between the entrance of the bright ball of light and the explosion, but it shows both the secondary bright object, the explosion, a number of independent objects moving in a non-liner manner and the contrails that are completely off-center to be related to the explosion itself. And
additional video of the extremely slow-moving object from a number of different locations.
The University of Wisconsin claims that pieces of the meteor were located by two boys 22 hours after the incident, but I remain skeptical, considering we've been told numerous times before the debris was located and then nothing ever comes to the public's attention. Some may be content with the video footage and the news telling them what they're meant to think, but there are others who are in no way satisfied with the idea that this was what they claim it is. If it was a meteor, it was a highly unusual one. Personally, I don't have to state what I believe it is - everyone should be able to figure that out well enough on their own.
But regardless of what it is, the fact is that nothing was picked up regarding a meteor of this size and it should have been located days ago. If it
was a meteor of such a size, it possibly heralds some very frightening events in nature to come. If it
was not, then we have a lot more to worry about. To that, news media have absolutely shut down any further reports on this after the initial report. There were also numerous sightings of black helicopters doing "training sessions" the following day over the area near Madison where it landed. If we're not given information, we will draw our own conclusions.
