Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Meteor Explodes over Michigan

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Earthquake-causing meteor leaves southeast Michigan residents awestruck

KARMA ALLEN

Good Morning America•January 17, 2018

Boom!

Residents of southeast Michigan were left a bit shaken Tuesday night after a big bright flash lit up the sky and the ground beneath them shook.

A flying saucer? No. A shooting star? Not quite.

The National Weather Service eventually solved the mystery, tweeting "USGS confirms meteor occurred around 810 pm, causing a magnitude 2.0 earthquake."

According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake was centered about five miles west-southwest of New Haven, Michigan, located about 40 miles northeast of Detroit.

Meteor did not cause earthquake in Michigan, researchers say

Initially though, as curious residents took to social media in droves to share videos of the dazzling display, the National Weather Service said it wasn't so sure what these star-gazers saw.

“When Armageddon is near, you better get out of of here. Looking like a Deep Impact. I ain’t afraid of no ‘stroid” #metrodetroitmeteor pic.twitter.com/MdibIt82TZ
— Topher No Grace (@topherlaine) January 17, 2018

"After reviewing several observational datasets, the NWS can confirm the flash and boom was NOT thunder or lightning, but instead a likely meteor. We continue to monitor feeds from astronomical agencies for official confirmation of a meteor," read a tweet posted nearly two hours before the NWS confirmed it was a meteor.

#meteor scared the buhjesus out of us pic.twitter.com/qFcFMotFDi
— PirateHooker (@BlackBeerded) January 17, 2018

The American Meteor Society's report map illustrated that the meteor was visible in six states and in Canada.

The sparkling display sent social media users into a frenzy, making "#meteor" a top 5 trending topic in the U.S. on Twitter. One Twitter user captured the entire display in a 10-second dashcam video.

ABC News' Darren Reynolds and Brendan Rand contributed to this report.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Preponderance of Evidence?

RUSSIA'S MILITARY CONFUSED FOR ALIENS AFTER ADVANCED MISSILE LAUNCHES INTO THE SKY

BY TOM O'CONNOR ON 9/26/17 AT 4:55 PM

Russia tested a new, advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to the U.S.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its missile forces successfully launched a Topol RS-12M, called SS-27 "Sickle B" by NATO, from the Kapustin Yar range in the southern Astrakhan region. The missile reportedly flew about 1,200 miles before striking a target at the Sary Shagan testing site in Kazakhstan. The ministry said data collected from the test would help develop new anti-missile defense penetration technology.

"A combat union of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile Topol RS-12M from the Kapustin Yar state central range in the Astrakhan region," a ministry spokesman said, according to the state-run Tass Russian News Agency.

"The goal of the launch was to test advanced ballistic missile warheads," he added.

The Topol RS-12M can be fitted with a nuclear warhead and travel up to 6,800 miles, easily putting major U.S. cities such as New York and Washington in range. After Tuesday's launch, however, it was local Russians who appeared to be most shaken. Some residents in southern Russia took to social media to post pictures of the curious, spiral-like trail left behind by the missile.

"I have a tape of some kind f**king thing in the sky, is this the end of the world? Ahhhhhh!," one user wrote.

"Queue X-Files theme," another wrote, wondering if it could have anything to do with Russia's operations against the Islamic State group (ISIS) in Syria.

"I arrived in this city, and here comes a UFO to take me back to Mordovia," a third tweet read.

It isn't the first time the Topol has caused a stir among confused onlookers. In 2013, astronaut Mike Hopkins was onboard the International Space Station when he photographed a mysterious cloud and shared it on Twitter. Hopkins said he didn't know what it could be, but called it "pretty amazing." It was later disclosed that Russia's Strategic Missile Forces reported a Topol missile launch that same day.

Hundreds in Israel scrambled to emergency lines to report UFO sightings in 2010, the Jerusalem Post reported, after what was later found to be a similar Russian ICBM test also visible in Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey.