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Date Posted: 15:21:47 11/18/01 Sun
Author: spoot
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Rockets

Well I worked very late last night, until 2:00AM, and then I took a lawn chair out to my front walkway and sat down in the darkness and lay my head on the chair pillows and watched the sky fall!

I thought it was gonna be lots of falling stars all at once, like I once saw in New Mexico years ago, but instead they mostly came one at time, a few seconds apart, or at the most two at once.

But the intensity! Each one shot across the sky, leaving a brilliant white hot trail behind, so fast, they were like bullets in the water. Some of the trails were not so straight, as if the burning particle was spinning and wobbling in its trajectory. The trails were like plumes, white and feathery, always traveling from west to east. There were light wisps of clouds in the skies, and it almost seemed that the dissipating trails had created them.

Some were so bright and spectacular they drew unbidden cries from my throat. And I swear when one shot through the sky, I heard the whistling shriek of rocket fire.

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Amazin, aint it? Yes, Redhead and I went out and tried to watch through the fog - got a little bit of the effect, including some big shooters every once in a while...was sort of like fireflies; blink (over THERE) and you look, and its gone... (NT) -- gumtree, 23:52:05 11/19/01 Mon