Fireballs seen over Germany spark UFO speculation!

[Dashken]

BERLIN (Reuters) - Numerous sightings of massive fireballs in the skies over Germany this week have led to an upsurge in reports of UFOs, but scientists believe the cause could be a bizarre annual meteor blitz.

According to the Web site of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (
NASA), such fireballs have been reported elsewhere in the world and may also be due to the fact that the Earth is now orbiting through a swarm of space debris.

Many people in Germany have noticed the fireballs, said Werner Walter, an amateur astronomer in Mannheim who runs a Web site on unexplained astronomical phenomena and a hotline for reports on unidentified flying objects (UFO).

"The last reported sighting was yesterday at 7:30 p.m. in a corridor near the border of the Netherlands," he told Reuters in a telephone interview. "This week we have had at least 15 emails and phone calls from people reporting these fireballs," he said. "Some people said it looks like something out of a science fiction horror film."

In addition to a possible meteor streak, Walter said amateur and professional astronomers were considering the possibility that the blitz was the result of a "falling satellite or UFOs." "It is possible that they are UFOs, which are after all things which we cannot explain," he said.

NASA's science Web site (http://science.nasa.gov) mentions reports of recent fireball sightings in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, North Ireland and Japan. It includes images of the fireballs, which one man likened to a spotlight.

Walter described them as "super-large, colored fireballs that shoot with the speed of lightning through the sky."

However, the NASA Web site quotes meteor expert David Asher from the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland as saying that people "are probably seeing the Taurid meteor shower."

Taurids are meteors that shoot out of the constellation Taurus, which peaks at the end of October and early November.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051107/...y_fireballs_dc

Alien so stupid let us see them? They can cloak their ships one what...

[Jet]

ROTFLMAO!!!
UFO!!!

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Jet

ROTFLMAO!!!
UFO!!!

Hehe.. You wish.

I think it's more likely to be meteors, rather than an incoming alien invasion.

[Dashken]

Alien scounting ship le... or maybe a R&D ship...

[zy]

someone illegal park their ufo at the wrong place

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by zy

someone illegal park their ufo at the wrong place

ROTFL!!!!

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Dashken

Alien scounting ship le... or maybe a R&D ship...

If those are scouts or R&D ships, I don't want to be here when the real invasion fleet arrives!!!

[Dashken]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

If those are scouts or R&D ships, I don't want to be here when the real invasion fleet arrives!!!

Aiya... you'll be here, I can assure you that, you'll be either on the ground or in the ground.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Dashken

Aiya... you'll be here, I can assure you that, you'll be either on the ground or in the ground.

ROTFL!!!!