hey we had the same thing happen here in the south, New Orleans, was it the same thing in the sky we saw here?
Meteor has heads tilting skyward
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It was a plane -- crashing. It was a "flaring" at a local refinery. Nope, the glowing object in the sky Thursday came from much farther away.
The thing plummeting to earth within view of the air traffic control tower at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner "apparently was a meteor," said Roland Herwig, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration's southwest region.
Some residents speculated a plane had crashed. Others thought it might be flames from a refinery shooting in the sky, a procedure taken to prevent damage to machinery.
At least one air traffic controller, though, saw it, Herwig said.
"At dusk, while looking out of the west window, someone in the tower saw a bluish-green light moving from east to west: a meteor," Herwig said. "And it completely dissipated before making contact with the ground."
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they immediately said it was a meteor, and there was very little mention of it after this short article...
