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Originally Posted by Tom R.
Serge--I want to thank you for mentioning the fireball over Michigan and putting a date on it. I saw it. It remains an indelible memory, but until now it was always something that happened "when I was a kid." On that date I was ten years old and living in Ann Arbor. A friend and I were riding our bikes when it went overhead. It was red, yellow and white and about the size of a full moon in the sky. What's more, we heard it-- making a pffft sound as it went. I don't recall a sonic boom, but there may well have been one. We were foolish enough to think if we rode our bikes in the direction it was traveling we would find it. That didn't happen of course, but we knew then, and I know now, that what we saw was a meteor. I've told the story a few times over the years, and I've always kind of hoped to see another one that spectacular, but so far no luck.
Before you posted about the fireball, I was going to add my two cents to the debate by quoting Arthur C. Clarke's "third law": "Technology sufficiently advanced seems like magic." I think we should never underestimate the power of human imagination.
I have a friend who works for JPL and is involved with the Mars rovers. I asked him once, "Have you found life on Mars yet, or are you keeping it a secret?" He said, "We wouldn't keep it a secret. It would be worth billions in additional funding!"
Tom
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Tom it wouldn’t be NASA if they didn’t change their story. In December 2005, just before the 40th anniversary of the Kecksburg incident, NASA released a statement reporting that experts had examined metallic fragments from the area and determined they were from a Russian satellite that re-entered the atmosphere and broke up, but records of their findings were lost in the 1990s. Only to change their minds in the later years since the trajectory was not consistent with a satellite when pushed and prodded with the more modern knowledge of such things.
So what was it really? I guess we will never really know.
As far as mars goes, I think it’s all but settled that there was life on Mars. It’s no coincidence we are so interested in Mars. Of course if you recall we were told just the opposite a few decades ago with NASA claiming it was nothing but a dead planet, it never had any water or signs of life of any kind. Wait another decade or perhaps less this time around, they will discover microbes and all kinds of life under the surface. Where there is methane, there is life.
That’s not to mention all the artifacts found on Mars that we are led to believe are nothing more than our eyes tricking us.
