Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth?

Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth? 

Laura Knight-Jadczyk

SOTT.NET

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:34 EDT

Somehow, I think it is highly probable that we have a new event to add to our list of Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets: Damages, Disasters, Injuries, Deaths, and Very Close Calls
Have a look at the excerpts from the following two news items from this
past week and see if something doesn't seem off about the glib and
facile "explanations" for a series of extremely bizarre events. Every
element of the stories is explainable in the terms presented by Clube
and Napier, Mike Baillie and John S. Lewis and which have been the
topic of the present series of articles on Comet hazards. At the same
time, the explanations given by the "official sources" simply do not
sound plausible.

Read and judge for yourself.

2008 - 15, 16, 18 April - Illinois -
Maybe we had a comet fragment impact or two or three over a period of
several nights? Perhaps a couple of overhead explosions and then,
later, a ground impact. Read the following stories and judge for
yourself:

That would explain booms and earthquake and lights in the sky spread out over three days. Damage Control: Mysterious booms, lights over Indiana were just F-16s

A sonic boom and fireballs and flaming debris that Kokomo-area
residents reported seeing in the sky Wednesday night prompted Howard
County's police agencies to conduct a two-hour search for what many
residents thought was a crashed aircraft.

As it turned out, the fireballs were flares fired by F-16s that are
part of the 122nd Fighter Wing, an Indiana Air National Guard unit
based at Fort Wayne International Airport. ...

Staff Sgt. Jeff Lowry with Indiana National Guard's headquarters in
Indianapolis said the jets taking part in the training are not supposed
to exceed the speed of sound, which is about 760 mph, because
supersonic speeds produce sonic booms.

He said the 122nd's commander, Col. Jeff Soldner, will investigate
why at least one jet reached supersonic speeds Wednesday night over
Howard and Tipton counties, and also on Tuesday night over the
Logansport area, shaking the ground below. ...

He said F-16 training often involves the aircraft dropping flares
from more than 10,000 feet above the ground, a technique that can allow
the jets to evade heat-seeking missiles in combat. ...

Logansport Police Chief A.J. Rozzi said he heard a loud sonic boom
on Tuesday night, and then heard the sound of a jet high overheard. He
said residents also reported seeing fire streaks in the sky.

He said it is common for the 122nd to conduct missions in the area
and believes F-16 training almost certainly explains the sights and
sounds.

"They've been doing that training for quite a while. I don't know
what maneuvers they're actually doing, but they do shoot out streaks of
light," he said.

5.4 earthquake rocks Illinois; felt 350 miles away

A 5.4 earthquake that appeared to rival the strongest recorded in
the region rocked people awake up to 350 miles away early Friday,
surprising residents unaccustomed to such a powerful Midwest temblor.

The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered 6 miles from West
Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from Evansville, Ind. It was felt in such
distant cities as Chicago, Cincinnati and Milwaukee, 350 miles north of
the epicenter, but there were no early reports of injuries or
significant damage. ....

"You could hear a roaring sound and the whole motel shook, waking up
the guests,'' Vibha Ambelal, manager of the Super 8 Motel in Mount
Carmel, Illinois, near the epicenter, said in a telephone interview."

Now, add the above to what happened just a little over a week earlier:

2008 - 6 April - Argentina - The space
rock reportedly crashed late Sunday somewhere in Entre Rios Province,
some 260 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, reports the daily Clarin,
which quoted a witness, Milton Blumhagen, a student and astronomy buff:
"For three or four seconds I saw an object in flames, changing color
until it turned blue when it approached the ground.'' A fire department
source said the impact was felt for miles around. No damage was
reported.

Keep your eyes and ears open!