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Auckland Light show
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A meteor shower is believed to be responsible for a light show over Auckland's Waitemata Harbour this morning.
A number of callers to police reported seeing colourful or white lights from the North Shore, Kohimarama and as far South as Kawakawa Bay at around five thirty.
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Somalian UFO
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A baffling device which resembles a satellite or Unidentified Flying Object (U.F.O) has landed in a rural area close to Buulo-Burde town, 220km north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu, eyewitnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday. Villagers report that the device had fallen in a remote jungle area,...
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Chris Romanek
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SREL geologist verifies University of Georgias first meteorite Chris Romanek knows it's probably a wild goose chase. After all, he goes on one about once a month. Romanek, a geologist with the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, is always eager, though, because h...
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Meteorite Auction
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A piece of the planet Mars could be yours for the bargain price of several thousand dollars. The extraterrestrial artefact and some 350 other offerings will be put up for sale in a simultaneous New York City/Beverly Hills auction this weekend by I.M. Chait, the California auctioneer that is selling...
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Noblesville Rock
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As they relax in the modest living room of their home near downtown Noblesville, Jan and Lois Melvin said they have not felt the same for about a week. Something is missing. A large historic rock, which had rested comfortably near the corner of 10th and Division streets near Seminary Park for more than...
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Madrid icefall
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A football-sized block of ice fell out of the sky on to the roof of an industrial building in Madrid, police say, denting the roof but without causing injuries. "We don't know where it came from," a police spokeswoman said of the 20 kilogram lump. [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/n...
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Iranian UFO Crash
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An Unidentified Flying Object crashed in Barez Mounts in the central province of Kerman Wednesday morning.
Deputy Governor General of Kerman province Abulghassem Nasrollahi told FNA that the crash which was followed by an explosion and a thick spiral of smoke has caused no casualties or damage...
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Toronto meteor
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The bright flash of light seen streaking across Toronto's sky last night was likely a meteoroid or piece of space debris, a University of Toronto professor says. Police switchboards in Toronto, York and Durham regions received several calls from people who had seen a fireball in the sky betwee...
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Detecting Asteroid Impacts
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Can we detect asteroid impacts with rocky extrasolar planets?
Sixty-five million years ago a chunk of rock and ice perhaps 15 kilometres across collided with the Earth and wiped out many creatures, including the dinosaurs. This impact, known as the Chicxulub impact, must have created a spectac...
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Peacehaven Sonic Boom
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A freak "boom" in the middle of the night set off car alarms and woke residents. Student Jason North, 23, was one of several people to be disturbed by the noise heard along the south coast in the Peacehaven area at 1am today. "It was like a sonic boom. It sounded a long way off but it made en...
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California Boom
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Was it a bomb? An exploded gas tank? A blown transformer? Neighbours in the 6000 block of Newlin Avenue in Uptown Whittier felt their homes and cars tremble and heard a deafening boom this weekend that sent them out into the street to investigate. They wondered aloud if it was kids playing with firecra...
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New Delhi ball of fire
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Civil aviation authorities in India are struggling to determine what caused at least 10 pilots to report seeing a "ball of fire" in the air on Sunday morning. Described by several pilots as a "ball of fire, orange in colour and scattered," the phenomenon was said to have appea...
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Rio Hato meteorite
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Panamanian geologists have found an meteorite at Rio Hato, a coastal town west of the capital Panama City. The meteorite fell onto Rio Hato's beach last Friday, geologist Juan de Dios Villa told the press on Wednesday. The landing was witnessed by a security guard, who described it as a ball of fi...
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Argentina UFO Crash
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Numerosos testimonios de vecinos de Rosario de Lerma y Quijano aseguraron que el objeto volador no identificado visto surcar los cielos el jueves 18 de enero pasado en la zona cordillerana, no pudo tratarse de una bomba de disipación de tormenta de granizo. "Más bien se parecía a una enorme bol...
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Wales' history of UFO sightings
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Wales has had its fair share of UFO sightings over the years. In the '70s an entire class of primary school children in Broadhaven, West Wales, claimed to have seen a UFO landing and aliens get out.The pictures they drew of what they had seen - a cigar-shaped object - appeared uncannily similar. [u...
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