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.
More news from Moriches Bay, Long Island
Date:
Sat, 14 Dec 1996 13:42:52 -0500
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UFO UpDates - Toronto
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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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