Frenchman
Tenderfoot
"VERY LARGE METEOROID" A very Near Miss
In the very early 1980s while I was on a extended treasure hunting trip in Arizona, I witnessed the unbelievable. It was 3:30 in the afternoon on a beautifull clear blue sky sunshiney day, and it happened. I was standing on a ridge above a acient indian ruins and as I looked to my left, a flying mountain came into my view from the horizon. I watched it from horizon to horizon.? It must have taken at least 10 or 15 seconds to transverse the sky before me. In the front was a mountain, or maybe bigger. Bigger I think. About 3 or 4 times the size of the rising full moon.? As it moved across the sky there were pieces breaking off, all with fire like you can not amagine. The trail behind it was pieces breaking off getting smaller and smaller.? The fire was trailing the pieces breaking off as well. But way back toward the tail end of pieces breaking off, the pieces were smaller and smaller and moving slower and slower, as they did not have the weight and mass to carry them on by the earth. Mankind is very lucky, I would guess that at the nearest point it was only 10 or 15 miles from striking the earth. The meteoroid itself with the bigger parts of it kept right on going back into space. But, a few of the pebbles off from it came down. After six months of searching, I believe I found a piece of it. The piece weighs over 17 pounds. Here are a few pictures. You can see where it has the fusion crust from coming into our world. This is the first time I've put any pictures on treasurenet, so I hope they come through. Happy Hunting and Best Wishes.
In the very early 1980s while I was on a extended treasure hunting trip in Arizona, I witnessed the unbelievable. It was 3:30 in the afternoon on a beautifull clear blue sky sunshiney day, and it happened. I was standing on a ridge above a acient indian ruins and as I looked to my left, a flying mountain came into my view from the horizon. I watched it from horizon to horizon.? It must have taken at least 10 or 15 seconds to transverse the sky before me. In the front was a mountain, or maybe bigger. Bigger I think. About 3 or 4 times the size of the rising full moon.? As it moved across the sky there were pieces breaking off, all with fire like you can not amagine. The trail behind it was pieces breaking off getting smaller and smaller.? The fire was trailing the pieces breaking off as well. But way back toward the tail end of pieces breaking off, the pieces were smaller and smaller and moving slower and slower, as they did not have the weight and mass to carry them on by the earth. Mankind is very lucky, I would guess that at the nearest point it was only 10 or 15 miles from striking the earth. The meteoroid itself with the bigger parts of it kept right on going back into space. But, a few of the pebbles off from it came down. After six months of searching, I believe I found a piece of it. The piece weighs over 17 pounds. Here are a few pictures. You can see where it has the fusion crust from coming into our world. This is the first time I've put any pictures on treasurenet, so I hope they come through. Happy Hunting and Best Wishes.
