MORE NEWS FROM MORICHES BAY, LONG ISLAND

Sat, 14 Dec 1996 01:01:51 -0500
Source: Rebecca Shattle

Swiped from Forteana list

FBI says flare near Kennedy likely a meteorite

           
              NEW YORK (Reuter) - The green flare-like light seen by a
  Saudi airlines crew Thursday near the flight path of doomed TWA
  Flight 800 was most likely a meteor shower, the FBI said Friday.

              FBI agents interviewed the crew because one of the theories
  of what caused the TWA crash is that it could have been brought
  down by a missile.

              The Paris-bound Boeing 747 crashed offshore minutes after
  taking off from Kennedy airport July 17, killing all 230 people
  on board. The cause of the crash has not yet been determined and
  investigators believe other possibilities were a bomb or
  mechanical failure.

              ``We have spoken to meteorologists who said they were
  expecting heavy meteor activity for a couple of days that would
  in fact be reaching its peak today,'' a spokesman for James
  Kallstrom, head of the FBI's New York office, said.

              ``The best we could determine is that would be the likely
  explanation,'' the spokesman said.

              The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said  Thursday
  that the crew of the 747, flying at about 12,000 feet
  , spotted the green flare while making its approach to Kennedy
  at about 6 a.m. EST.

             The FAA said, however, that the pilot did not feel the plane
  was in jeopardy and simply reported it as a ``sighting.'' The
  plane traveled on to Washington's Dulles International Airport.

              In November, a co-pilot of a Pakistan International Airlines
  plane on a flight path similar to that of the doomed TWA
  jetliner also reported seeing a mysterious streak of light in
  the sky after taking off from New York. The FBI said that the
  most likely explanation for that incident was a meteor shower.


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                    Sat, 14 Dec 1996 13:42:52 -0500
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From: Masinaigan@aol.com
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 16:50:27 -0500
To: updates@globalserve.net
Subject: More news

Here's the latest hot, smoking poop from Moriches Bay, Long Island.

     On their 10 a.m. broadcast this morning, Friday, December 13,
1996, USA Radio news confirmed that a Saudi jetliner had encountered
a "greenish white object with a long tail" over Moriches Bay, Long Island.

     The sighting was confirmed on radar by the FAA Center in New York.

     James Kallstrom, the FBI special agent in charge of the TWA 800
investigation, was interviewed on the radio.  Kallstrom reportedly said
that was it "was still too early" to say exactly what the object was,
but "it might turn out to be a Geminid meteor."

     The object was sighted at 6 a.m. on Thursday, December 12th,
nearly 72 hours BEFORE the start of the Geminid meteor shower.


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