On 9/6/06, David VanHorn <dvanhorn@microbrix.com> wrote:
>
>
> > It is commonly reported that incoming meteorites are sometimes "heard"
> > by some people. (Is that indefinite enough :-) ). If this is not a
> > psychological generation of apparent audio by visual stimulus then it
> > *must* be caused by perception of RF signals as the sound path from
> > the events in the very high atmosphere, if there was one, would take
> > vastly longer than the viewing time.
>
>
>
>  I can speak to that.
>
> Two friends and I were crossing the bridge in iroquois point, Oahu,
> Hawaii, at about 9 or 10 PM.
> It was completely dark, and we all three heard a noise we couldn't
> identify, and were looking around, for about a second, then a bolide
> appeared, crossing from east of us to north of us.
> The light was bright enough to cast a shadow, a bright green.  The noise
> was sort of a sizzling, not loud.
>
>

Pull up google earth, and go to 21 deg 19' 25.36N  and 157 deg, 58'
37.57Wand you'll see where we were.  Elevation about 40 degrees,
started to the
east of us, and ended near north, and maybe 30 degrees elevation.
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