Hundreds Spot Fireballs In Colorado, Nearby States 509
pingpong writes "Hundreds of people in Colorado and 7 surrounding states have reported seeing "fireballs" in the night sky. They are described as being 10 to 15 times larger than a normal shooting star and bluish in color. Two people even claimed to see one land, but it has yet to be found. The Daily Camera is reporting it online here."
Field reports invited.
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UFO's? (Score:1, Funny)
S1R_Spankal0t
DO NOT LOOK AT THE PRETTY LIGHTS! (Score:5, Funny)
Keep salt water handy...it's your only defense! It melts them.
All we need now... (Score:3, Funny)
Arm those water guns!
weatherballoons (Score:5, Funny)
must be (Score:5, Funny)
Could it be? (Score:5, Funny)
The end is Nigh! (Score:1, Funny)
There was a time... (Score:2, Funny)
I'm going to go home and start filling up water glasses.
Poor sarge. (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, I'd be mad as hell if some whack journalist put my name in the same goddamn PARAGRAPH as that pun.
Here is my first hand report. (Score:5, Funny)
"LUNCH, NOT LAUNCH!" I yelled as he absent-mindedly pushed the button that freed the living quarters from the rest of the station.
Ok. I'm looking out the window. Hey! I see clouds! Cool. That looks like mountains over there... I wonder if 3pojjaet8rj['[545$YW#$#..
sw245ll.///
./#%.
Ok. I seem to have crashed. I can't move my legs. Could someone please get me an asprin? I'll try to walk. Oh God! The pain... it's excruciating! Ow. I think my leg just snapped. Ow. Ow. Ow.
My guess... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:UFO's? (Score:5, Funny)
So you are that goatse guy. Quit promoting your site here!
It's Not Like They Didn't Warn Us (Score:2, Funny)
Burning, itchy... (Score:3, Funny)
Robin Williams? (Score:4, Funny)
I note that the reports are of the fireballs landing near Boulder. Does this mean that Mork from Ork has arrived?
Nanoo Nanoo!
[For those young whippersnappers who don't watch TV land, the popular TV show Mork and Mindy, starring Robin Williams, was set in Boulder]
Slashdot Readers Report Rise In One-Liners (Score:5, Funny)
"usually we'll see a few, maybe even a bunch, of one-liners for certain stories we've posted," said CmdrTaco, languishing in a drunken hallucinagenic stupor on the steps of his villa in the south of france. "but christ, its like henny youngman possessed the populace on a scale rivaling that of
"certainly one-liners are a common, almost obligatory, form of logical reponse," said one reader, "but this many makes me want to get in a white van and shoot people at random. do these people think they're funny? its really just in bad taste."
one-liner watchers are unconcerned however. "we've seen this before - like the article about the giant Bart Simpson doll copulating with a penguin - and no substantial harm was done on the long term." some, however, are still reliving the nightmare.
with no end in sight to this barrage, Micro$oft engineers have released a worm to tack on at least 3 sentences promoting WindowsS.Ux, Ballmer Edition to each post to space out the green bars just a little further.
Re:Explanation needed (Score:3, Funny)
That guy? I reckon this guy [slashdot.org] owes us an explanation!
Re:It's all so damn 'Merican (Score:1, Funny)
How typically Canadian. Instilling Canadian gun culture in 4 year old children. Digusting!
So, who's covering this story? (Score:2, Funny)
Jay (=
Re:Witness (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing bad. It's those icy fireballs you have to watch out for...
The logical explanation (Score:5, Funny)
All those who say otherwise are cynical naysayers.
By the time they are convinced it could well be too late. The time for action is now.
I for one support the military action that George W. Bush is planning for these alien enemies of state. So grab a gun and head for Colorado! Time is a-wasting.
Re:It's all so damn 'Merican (Score:5, Funny)
Goodness gracious ... (Score:4, Funny)
What a concept! It simply shakes my nerves and it rattles my brains.
Re:It's all so damn 'Merican (Score:4, Funny)
You got a
I live in Texas and I never shot anything but a BB gun until I was 12.
How can you even make a comment about Americans and guns? =P
Re:probability (Score:3, Funny)
Explaination... (Score:4, Funny)
Wargames [imdb.com] + LSD [erowid.org] = Science: Hundreds Spot Fireballs In Colorado, Nearby States [slashdot.org]
Re:It's Not Like They Didn't Warn Us (Score:3, Funny)
Re:DO NOT LOOK AT THE PRETTY LIGHTS! (Score:2, Funny)
Damn Fireballs.
Re:It's all so damn 'Merican (Score:4, Funny)
To stay on topic, however, these "fireballs" are causing the most brilliant members of the Denver area to make their opinions known. Several people, went interviewed on 9 News, were convinced that an airplane had flown into a building...
Riiighht.
Re:Say what? [funny] (Score:5, Funny)
Do not taunt Happy Fireball
Somebody Call Art Bell! (Score:2, Funny)
No doubt this is the beginning of the end for Colorado as the ALiens are probably kidnaping thousands of people and implanting them with mind control computers that will turn them into mindless Microsoft users. Who Cares.
Re:Say what? [funny] (Score:4, Funny)
If I remember correctly....
Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Re:weatherballoons (Score:5, Funny)
I hate that weather-balloon that keeps ubducting Aunt Laura and poking her in the brain.
No Photos? (Score:5, Funny)
Anyway, for those of you jealous of Colorado residents, take out your geeked out keychain and stare into the bright blue light. Now step outside and look at the sky. Yeah... it was a lot like that...
And don't worry, they should go away in a few hours.
aTek
Re:Say what? [funny] (Score:4, Funny)
Being dealt a Royal Flush is rare, it is notable, it happens. Why, and why on *that* hand?
Because shit like that happens. By chance.
What were the odds of being dealt that last hand you got that wasn't a Royal Flush?
Ah! If you knew the anwer to that you'ld know a lot more about "coincidence" than you apparently do now.
By the way, why do you suppose they call it "astronomical" odds?
KFG
Seek shelter and cover head (Score:3, Funny)
Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:
Re:INVASION DAY (Score:5, Funny)
Re:weatherballoons (Score:4, Funny)
>Aunt Laura and poking her in the brain
Her brain?
Aren't they taking kind of the long way around to get to it?
-l
Re:All we need now... (Score:4, Funny)
2. buy a 2x4 plank(piece of wood)
3. plot some nice forms on paper with harp
4. do some nightshift work at fields
5. ?????
6. go looting after mob breaks downtown after going into panic(==PROFIT).
(all the comments i saw for this very marked funny or trying to be one, i thought not to be different)
The famous honorable "another witness". (Score:3, Funny)
Wasn't that the guy who asked Kevin Kostner to call him "Mr. X" in the JFK movie?
From what I understand this is the same guy that also saw that indestructable "tin-foil" laying around in Maricopa by Roswell after that big bang one night. And he once had a Job on Area 51 and had this bumb-in with a small greyish green bug-eyed humanoid in a silver spandex jumpsuit.
I know that guy. He's absolutely trustworthy.
Really.
Re:Witness (Score:5, Funny)
We had found a mirror-flat lake in the country and we were stumbling around watching the shooting stars, when suddenly we appeared to be on an ancient spacecraft. I looked up and saw the stars reorganizing themselves into various patterns, the constellations drawing themselves out to create realistic images.
We continued this strange, and very cold, journey throughout the evening, until my socks turned into meat.
Very few people believe me when I tell this story. Until I mention the presence of some extremely potent LSD.
On the scene (Score:3, Funny)
I'm here at the crash scene... there is a glow and a deep hum and a glow coming from the crater... a door is opening... oh my god... they're coming towards me... this is the most incredible thing i've ever trererewwerw
Re:It's all so damn 'Merican (Score:2, Funny)
The only bright light I saw was an airplane landing at said airport. Personally, I think what was going on was a lot of drug use. (Yes, there is enough drug use in the Boulder area to have 60 people mystified by an airplane landing.)
Re:Explanation needed (Score:1, Funny)
Re:weatherballoons (Score:2, Funny)
Re:weatherballoons (Score:5, Funny)
>Aunt Laura and poking her in the brain
Her brain?
Aren't they taking kind of the long way around to get to it?
Obviously, you don't know Aunt Laura.....
Re:The end is Nigh! (Score:2, Funny)
We need her on earth for the last LOR movie and to bear my childr... er...
Damn.
Grooann... Another &#^@! MSDS to find! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh no! Fireballs have HMIS information?! I already have to find the rest of those 10 000 Material Safety Data Sheets for work; where oh where am I going to find contact information for "Fireball Manufacturers"?
As if my job weren't tough enough...
Interrobang, Conscript MSDS Updater
Re:Better story (Score:2, Funny)
Actually in my mind, it demonstrates how little people think things through. What exactly are the police going to do about balls of flame in the sky? Arrest them?
Concerned Citizen:Fireballs officer! In the Sky!
Dispatch:right. I think you want nasa. Or the air force. We'd handle it ourselves, but our Space Cruiser is in the shop. On Quaoar
And in other news... (Score:4, Funny)
Here's an interesting thing to try-- Stick a couple of old forks in a pickle with the handles pointing away from each other. Split a power cord down the middle and attach some alligator clips to the cut off part. Attach the clips to the forks and put the plug in the wall. After a few seconds, you'll see the pickel glow yellow between where the forks are stuck in the pickle. It's pretty neat to watch.