Please help if you can......
Here is a post I have been sending to everyone I can think of:
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I am having an awfully hard time finding someone to take this matter seriously.
In a nutshell :
On Sunday, October 24, 2004 at about 11:15ish ~something~ entered the earth's atmosphere.
Outside Baltimore an observer witnessed an explosion, then a bright blue-green flash then
a "fireball". In the Ohio valley I was witness to the blue-green flash. I did not see
the "explosion" but a fireball of such enormity as to frighten me, streaked out of the direction of (but above), the Seven Sisters, right underneath Cassiopeia and headed toward the ~direction~ of Ursa Minor, (this fireball did not fit the norm for the Orionid meteor shower).
Witnesses from the Columbus, Ohio area saw the flash and the fireball but they also saw something fall down to earth.
I have watched meteor showers for years......I am well aware of what is ~normal~
From the reports that stretch from Baltimore to Indiana ~this~ is an extraordinary
occurance. I am saddened that I keep hitting a stone wall, with so called experts
(none of whom saw it) telling me that it probably was no bigger than a "grain of sand" and is of no importance.
If something was big enough to light up a large portion of the country a brilliant blue-green.......it stands to reason that it was bigger than a "grain of sand".
There were distinct stages to whatever it was. It first exploded, then flashed
the blue-green light, then streaked across the sky and then "part" of it dropped down, the remainder fizzling out.......
Isn't there anyone in the scientific community interested in this?
Aren't there "eyes on the sky" that can be checked?
Here are two links that I have found with running dialog:

http://www.nbc4i.com/news/3847532/detail.html

http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/mn/0410/25.htm


A clear path can be gleaned from the accounts and I find it hard to believe that
the remnants are not of significant importance...........
I just want to stress the exraordinary size of the fireball and the brightness of the
flash were something I have never seen before.......ever.
I belong to an internet group of Naturalists (DNR) included and everyone is truly amazed at what they saw.
Where can I go to plead my case????????
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Can anyone here offer advice?
Did anyone here see it?

Thank you for any support,
Janice

Bright fireballs are not that uncommon an occurrence. Over the years I've seen the ground light up a number of times from the passage of bolides. Twice I've witnessed ones bright enough to be seen during the day.

The object you saw may have been about the size of a basketball.

You may want to file a report with the AMS:

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/report.html

Dave Mitsky

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