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All over the news this morning here in Washington. Large (what they call a meteor) came down over Seattle/Tacoma at 2:45 in the morning. Witnesses discribe a huge flash of light that was brighter than day, a giant boom, and firey streak across the sky. It was visible even here in Spokane. (which is 4 hrs. away) Military says it wasn't theres. FAA says it wasn't a plane. Meteorologists say it was nothing weather related at all. Very interesting. :spit Most likely a meteor. Nothing found on the ground so far.

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How ya doing my friend..???

I've been in a focking sheity mood the last couple days. :shock I don't really know why. :shock But at this point I pretty much hate everyone.

Funny thing with that meteor. A meteorologist came on 1st thing this morning saying he saw it himself and said that there was NO WAY AT ALL it was a meteor. That it had to be something else. Then 30 minutes later the same guy came on saying he made a mistake and that it was most definitely a meteor. :shock

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The story gets even stranger, check this out:

AP Meteor Crash Report Was a Hoax

By Joe Strupp

Published: June 03, 2004 12:20 PM EST

NEW YORK Associated Press editors were forced to retract an earlier report that a meteorite might have hit near Olympia, Wash., this morning after discovering that a source, one Bradley Hammermaster, claiming to be an astronomy professor, had perpetrated a hoax.

"An early report that a meteor might have hit turned out to be false," said AP spokesman Jack Stokes. "It looks like a version (of the story) was killed because it talked about a meteorite hitting." He said AP was reviewing how the error occurred.

The original story, which AP released at 7:03 a.m. EST, stated that someone identified as Bradley Hammermaster, and purported to be a University of Washington astronomy instructor, had told KIRO Radio in Seattle that a piece of meteor "about the size of a small car" had hit just before 3 a.m. PST.

The radio station also quoted the man as saying "a team was being assembled to head for the area where the object was believed to have hit near the tiny southwestern Washington community of Chehalis."

This version was picked up by dozens of news sites, most of which later deleted the Hammermaster references.

The bogus report followed genuine reports of bright lights being seen along a 60-mile stretch of the Puget Sound, which National Weather Service and U.S. Coast Guard officials were investigating as either a streaking meteor or other outer space activity, AP reported.

An AP advisory sent out at about 7:23 a.m. EST stated, "The AP story Meteorite-Washington ... has been eliminated. The identity of the source of the story cannot be confirmed."

Later versions of the AP story revealed the hoax.

"An early report that a meteor might have hit near Chehalis, about 90 miles south of the city, turned out to be false, a University of Washington scientist who specializes in meteorites said," AP reported. "A man who identified himself as University of Washington astronomy professor Bradley Hammermaster told KIRO Radio a team was being assembled to head for an area where the meteor was believed to have hit, but that call appeared to be a hoax, Smith said."

The story added, "No one by the name of Hammermaster is known to the astronomy department, and the description given by the caller to the station of the object -- an automobile-sized piece of a small car from a piece of the larger Trilene meteor -- was clearly bogus."

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hoax...... :shock

Have one of these moon men hiding in the closet explain the boom and the bright light ordeal. If something cool or bad is happening with things like this, why does the shizz have to be covered up?????????? :shock

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