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Great Balls of Fire! From MN to Iowa, People See & Hear Flaming Sky Objects

by PEP | October 4, 2007 at 11:15 am | 260 views | 3 comments

This story recalls Orson Welles' great 1938 broadcast of H.G. Wells' "War of the "Worlds."

Were the fireballs chunks of a meteor? Were the sonic boom-like sounds related to a bolide?

So far, no one really knows. Stay tuned, folks.

esidents from the Twin Cities to the southwestern corner of Minnesota and into Iowa reported seeing a flaming object shooting through the sky Wednesday, and experts said they may have been watching a meteor.

Shortly after 2 p.m., people across the Twin Cities reported seeing a "metallic'' object or "flaming ball'' falling from the sky, according to broadcasters and emergency dispatchers who got hundreds of calls from people in Edina, Maple Grove and other suburbs. The callers said they saw the object traveling from the northeast to the southwest.

Meanwhile, residents in Lyon County in far southwestern Minnesota reported hearing a loud boom Wednesday.