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Chile Inundated with Fiery Unidentified Objects

Posted October 12, 2019 12:00 AM by M-ReeD
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Hell-fire rained on Chile last week and no one knows why.

Fiery unidentified flying objects descended upon Chile last week, igniting small fires in seven locations in that country. Experts suggested immediately following impact that the burning objects were actually burning meteorites.

Now, geologists from Chile's National Geology and Mining Service, who were among the first at each of the scenes of impact, are suggesting that, following a battery of tests, the affected areas held no traces of meteorite, leaving locals stumped over what the fiery objects might have been.

Some experts suggest that the fiery objects are simply errant space debris detached from orbiting rockets or satellites while others — ok, me and maybe this guy — think it is something more sinister. Perhaps the first salvo in an Independence Day- or V-like event similar to what I wrote about last week, where aliens finally try to communicate with us directly.

Stay tuned.

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10/12/2019 11:04 PM

That link doesn't work for me; wrong language, not a subscriber. So what are you trying to say?

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10/12/2019 11:10 PM

Link worked ok for me in Firefox with a translator add-on.

Here's the headline of the article:

Scrap rain: 100 tons of space debris fall annually on Earth

It's talks about all the crap put in orbit over the years that comes down regularly.

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10/14/2019 12:41 PM

It worked fine for me as well, also using Firefox, and on a Mac, FWIW.

It's a good article, but as far as I can tell, was written in 2015, so has no information on the recent occurrences.

Having lived in Chile, I am very interested in these happenings.

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10/14/2019 1:29 PM

Yeesh, I gotta pay more attention. I didn't realize the article was that old. Thanks for the heads up.

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10/14/2019 1:35 PM

It's always interesting to go back ad re-read almost anything to see what you missed the first time. For instance, I paid no attention to your mention of a translator add-on in your first post. I read the article in the original Spanish.

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10/14/2019 2:58 PM

I could probably work my way through the article with my 50+ year old knowledge of high school Spanish but I find it more entertaining to see what the translators come up with.

It's especially fun with stuff of Chinese origin.

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10/12/2019 11:35 PM

It's a little worrying the amount of space debris that has built up over the years and continues even now....It seems like everybody is launching satellites into orbit now and a lot of them are futile attempts that end in failure and spread even more debris from explosion and collisions...It makes one wonder if in the near future we will be under constant attack from falling space debris, oops, we already are....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris

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10/13/2019 2:40 PM

I understand there are 19920 space objects currently floating around up there; I suspect that's an underestimate. Seems like they need a traffic cop!

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10/12/2019 11:12 PM

"Experts suggested immediately following impact that the burning objects were actually burning meteorites."

They are actually meteors while in the air, and meteorites when they hit the ground, and meteoroids while in space. If they burned completely up then there would be nothing on the ground to find.

There might be a small possibility they were from one of the wildfires that got moved high up in the atmosphere.

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10/14/2019 11:34 AM

I got this...

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10/23/2019 12:20 PM

Aw, it's stuff re-entering, surely?

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