Strange lights, fireballs, and explosions in the air above Logansport on Tuesday, and Kokomo last night. We’re told they’re “meteor showers.” Okay, I’m no astrophysicist, but I took a few 200-level courses. Meteors and space debris come shooting through the Earth’s atmosphere pretty much constantly, we just don’t notice because they’re small and/or it’s daylight. Occasionally they are large enough that they make it far enough into the atmosphere produce to produce a sonic boom that can be heard from the ground. Even more occasionally they are large enough that they don’t completely burn up and actually hit the ground … infrequent, but it does happen. Meteor “showers” generally happen over multiple concurrent nights in the same week as Earth passes at right angles through fields of material along it’s orbital path in the plane of the ecliptic … highly predictable.
However, meteor showers (or maybe just two meteors?) that only appear above Central Indiana with material large enough to hit the ground a few scant feet apart (astronomically speaking) on two different nights in the same week … I’m gonna have to consult the law of probability … unless I’ve suddenly turned into a perfectly fine penguin.
My theory: If you draw a straight line between Logansport and Kokomo, and follow it through, it passes very close to Fishers. You see, these are just “tracer rounds.” My attempts to turn my DirecTV dish into a SETI transmitter/antenna have worked, and I’ve drawn the aliens’ attention. Now they’re attempting to target a mass driver on my house from their secret base on the moon, and every night they’re getting a little bit closer.
If anything happens to me, remember: Katie Courric is one of them!
Strange Lights in the Sky, Fireballs, and Explosions in Central Indiana
