METEOR SIGHTING CONFIRMED BY 2ND WITNESS; EXPERTS SEEKS MORE INFO TO LAUNCH RECOVERY EFFORT

October 2010 Articles

October 14, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) – Earlier this week we published an inquiry from a Deerhorn Valley/Jamul reader who believed she saw a large meteor possibly crashing to earth over East County on Monday night, October 10.

Today, we received an e-mail from Erich Wichman, a meteorite hunter and researcher with Meteorites USA and Meteorite Hunting & Collecting Magazine.

“We’ve received one other report of this fireball thus far,” he confirmed. Wichman seeks additional witness in hopes of forming a “search and recovery team to locate specimens of this apparent meteorite fall.”

If you have information to share, please contact eric@meteoritesusa.com or call 760-522-2152.

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