Dear Tweeters,
This evening, the third of May, at 2048, as I was finishing up putting my chickens to bed, what I think was a meteor flashed by, just north of my house. It was no more than a couple of thousand feet off the ground, and appeared to be going roughly parallel to the earth's surface. Behind the object were foothills, rather than sky. It went from roughly southeast to northwest, and had the shape of a teardrop, with the fat end forward--reminiscent of a "photon torpedo" from the old Star Trek show on television. The color of the fore part was an eerie electric greenish, the aft part more orange. It looked big, perhaps about the size of a single-engine plane. The apparition faded out somewhere over the low foothills north of SR 20, between Lyman and Hamilton.
A few American Robins tut-tut-tutted right afterwards, but they might have done so if there hadn't been such an object in the heavens.
I imagine that this object was very close to becoming a meteorite, but presumably burned up just a few seconds before it would have hit the earth. I can't remember ever seeing one so low before.
Yours truly,
Gary Bletsch
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