Trooper, motorist: Mysterious object fell from sky

[xchrom]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ODD_MYSTERY_OBJECT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-04-12-08-57-51

LITCHFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- Authorities in northwestern Connecticut say they didn't find anything after a state trooper and another person reported a large object falling out of the sky in Litchfield.

The Republican-American of Waterbury reports ( http://bit.ly/HEwTYZ ) that a person driving in Litchfield at about 2 a.m. Tuesday reported that a green, glowing object the size of a whale fell from the sky and crashed into Bantam Lake. Officials say that at about the same time, a state trooper 10 miles away in Warren called dispatchers to report that something fell out of the sky and landed near Bantam or Morris.

Morris fighters made several passes up and down the lake in a boat looking for a possible plane crash, but didn't find any debris.

Authorities called off the search, leaving the mystery unsolved

[Fumesucker]

1. ...

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4. CCR could have just sung names from the telephone book and it would have sounded awesome and...

...slightly haunting.

PB

[mikeiddy]

2. Newt?

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3. To be discovered on a hot summer night by drunken teens...who vill avake eet! nt

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[randome]

5. Don't poke it with a stick, whatever you do!

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10. "Sarah put down the beer help me stop Bobby- he heard on the radio not to poke it with a stick...

...and so he's going back to the car to get a stick! And then I think he's gonna poke it! HURR-RRY!"

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[MineralMan]

6. Unless the motorist saw it splash down into the lake,

it may not have fallen there. I've seen one fireball meteor. It passed over my car as I was driving early one morning. I could have sworn it was low enough to crash nearby. It didn't. It's difficult to judge altitude in such cases, so it could have landed, if it landed anywhere, many, many miles from where the motorist thought it landed.

On the other hand, if it did land in the lake, bass-fishing guys with sophisticated side-scanning sonar fish locators will find it soon enough.

[arcane1]

16. It's difficult to judge size as well

especially when one doesn't know what the actual object was. At this point it could be pretty much anything

[snooper2]

7. Damn it, Allah dropped his tickle me elmo again

[pinboy3niner]

8. New reports of something that could be suspicious at local movie theater

[hootinholler]

9. Are Morris fighters anything like Morris Dancers?

I can maybe see the confusion, there are sticks involved.

[xchrom]

11. ...

[pinboy3niner]

12. Oh noes...

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[hootinholler]

14. I thought they were just breathing hard ;) n/t

[MineralMan]

13. DUZY!

[madmom]

15. here also....

http://www.facebook.com/wrextv/posts/10150681031207175

[Lawlbringer]

17. To be fair

I too have crashed in CT, gotten bored, and bailed. It's a shame they didn't land someplace interesting, then we could have contact with another civilization instead of boring them to tears.

[SomethingFishy]

18. Glowing Green? Size of a Whale? Can only be one thing...

Cheney The Hutt