Stop, Hey What’s That Sound?
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- March
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For the past few days people have been buzzing over a mysterious explosive noise that was heard last Friday night in lower Westchester. A similar sonic-like boom was heard again early Monday morning, this time in Rockland County.
Things really got interesting, though, when a Mount Kisco woman said she saw a brilliant fireball in the sky at about the same time that witnesses in Yonkers, Eastchester, Tuckahoe and elsewhere heard Friday’s “kaboom.” This has given much credence to the theory that the noise was caused by a meteorite falling to earth.
Holding to that theory is Daryll Pitt, one of the foremost collectors of rare meteorites. He’s offering $10,000 to anyone who can produce a meterorite from last week’s strange event.
Pitt will be my guest today on “High Noon.” The radio program on WVOX, 1460 AM (www.wvox.com) starts a few minutes after 12 noon.
Calls will be taken, as usual, at 914-636-0110.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
nice. Like i said this is a lot happening at once. I wonder if its actually debris from the 2 satellites that crashed in orbit not too long ago.
I got a call this morning from a woman in Rye who thinks he may have a meteorite that was buried in her back yard…I’m thinking it’s probably a rusted pipe…
Andy’s purchasing a system that can detect a gunshot and pinpoint the sound so that police can respond with precision and alacrity. Three million. They can’t pinpoint (or even agree on) a METEORITE explosion over Tuckahoe, but they figure they can (within a nanosecond) detect the sound of a .22 pistol firing in an alley in South Mt Vernon. Hey, it’s only money.