Cluster of meteors hit the earth's surface - Murshidabad District, India

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/247898-Cluster-of-meteors-hit-the-earth-s-surface-Murshidabad-District-India

A cluster of meteors hit the earth's surface yesterday morning in Murshidabad district of India's West Bengal state. Administrative officials in Behrampore confirmed that they were first informed by local residents of Jalangi area who reportedly observed the meteor shower.

At around 5:15 a.m., the spectacular event, which lasted a few seconds, was marked by sparks in the sky, said eye-witnesses from the Sarkarpara area of Jalangi.

Meteors hit the ground like bullets, said local observers, who, driven by curiosity, followed the direction of the meteoric spark and found the spot struck by meteors at a jute field near the Indo-Bangla border.

Members of India's Border Security Forces took control of the site, but later involved the civil administration for better security.

Jalangi Block Development Officer Prasenjit Ghosh visited the spot and filed a report to the district magistrate who has asked for the help of an expert team to examine a chunk of solid rock, around 5 kilogram, found at the spot.

The local police cordoned off the site.

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I'm afraid that this is just the "beginning" !

a few related articles:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/247902-Scientists-to-probe-Nagpur-India-meteorite-shower
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/247901-Meteorite-shower-accompanied-by-huge-blast-like-sounds-hit-Katol-region-India

"Once in a lifetime" events, eh?

are those three articles talking about the same event or was there another one that occured on May 22?
I'm asking because there are different Regions mentioned and I'm not sure if we are talking about the same event at the same time ?

my guess is that all three articles talk about the same event that had happened on May 22 at about 5 PM .

It's not all about the same event as I could see it, the first from West Bengalen is from July, the other ones are from May. And one is 5 a.m (West Bengalen) the other one 5 p.m.

The Murshidabad sighting was from Sunday July 8, 2012 and reported on the 9th. The Nagpur, India meteorite shower was May 22 and the subsequent scientist follow-up was from an article May 27, 2012. You can click the link to the original to verify the date of the article, though the SOTT editors change the date in the articles to reflect accurately, I believe.

ADDED: Here's a bit more verification: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2012/05/katol-vidharbha-area-maharashtra-india.html. One of the youtube videos is now private, but this one works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-ggRWoc9y8I#!

This is big news. You can have meteors here and there, but a cluster is a different story - particularly in the context of all that is examined here: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/247582-Reign-of-Fire-Meteorites-Wildfires-Planetary-Chaos-and-the-Sixth-Extinction

Interesting times. This item just contributes to this feeling I've been having for several months that 'the die are cast', there is no turning back and things on this planet are 'over', in the sense that nothing will ever be the same again after whatever big thing comes next - economic, political, social, natural or cosmic - which in my mind should be happening within a time-frame of a couple of years. We'll wait and see.

Windmill knight said:

This is big news. You can have meteors here and there, but a cluster is a different story - particularly in the context of all that is examined here: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/247582-Reign-of-Fire-Meteorites-Wildfires-Planetary-Chaos-and-the-Sixth-Extinction

Interesting times. This item just contributes to this feeling I've been having for several months that 'the die are cast', there is no turning back and things on this planet are 'over', in the sense that nothing will ever be the same again after whatever big thing comes next - economic, political, social, natural or cosmic - which in my mind should be happening within a time-frame of a couple of years. We'll wait and see.

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For sure. It's all over save for the "wailing and gnashing of teeth".

Perceval said:

Windmill knight said:

This is big news. You can have meteors here and there, but a cluster is a different story - particularly in the context of all that is examined here: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/247582-Reign-of-Fire-Meteorites-Wildfires-Planetary-Chaos-and-the-Sixth-Extinction

Interesting times. This item just contributes to this feeling I've been having for several months that 'the die are cast', there is no turning back and things on this planet are 'over', in the sense that nothing will ever be the same again after whatever big thing comes next - economic, political, social, natural or cosmic - which in my mind should be happening within a time-frame of a couple of years. We'll wait and see.

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For sure. It's all over save for the "wailing and gnashing of teeth".

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Absolutely. Game over.

Windmill knight said:

Interesting times. This item just contributes to this feeling I've been having for several months that 'the die are cast', there is no turning back and things on this planet are 'over', in the sense that nothing will ever be the same again after whatever big thing comes next - economic, political, social, natural or cosmic - which in my mind should be happening within a time-frame of a couple of years. We'll wait and see.

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Humanity has been provided with the means to end suffering once and for all: telephones, email, internet, global communication. They not only have ignored this gift but used it to fall deeper into illusion. This weighs very heavily in my opinion. I too think it's over soon.

Laura said:

"Once in a lifetime" events, eh?

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In one sense: For many, in terms of direct experience once that happens, they will be.

Data said:

Humanity has been provided with the means to end suffering once and for all: telephones, email, internet, global communication. They not only have ignored this gift but used it to fall deeper into illusion. This weighs very heavily in my opinion. I too think it's over soon.

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I think humanity set out on an almost inevitable path of destruction millenia ago when agriculture and psychopathic rule were embraced. It has more or less made possible all that has followed.

For chances to be utilized, they must be recognized, and that requires learning. Which evidently didn't occur. Your examples are some of the latest possibilities that were - showing that they can appear even when almost everything has already gone wrong - though no doubt there were many more, both in modern times and throughout history.

In case you missed my reply to the Tunguska anniversary/Perth fireball story:

I have been tracking the incidence of reported fireballs over the US for over a year now, since the increase first caught my notice.

Working from the ams.org database, and researching prior reports going back a century, what I found was that the reported fireball incidence has held steady at around 1.2-1.3 per day for a very long time. Beginning in 2006 we see the following pattern:

2005: 1.28
2006: 1.41
2007: 1.61
2008: 1.98
2009: 1.90
2010: 2.59
2011: 4.46

And so far for 2012, as of yesterday: 5.03

Plot those points and the slope is pretty steep.

I am beginning to suspect that the "Mayan" calendar, which is not really Mayan, since they inherited it from the Olmec, who got it from who knows where, is actually a countdown calendar the pinpoints an intersection with the dense stream of cometary fragments that caused the Younger Dryas period some 12.5K years ago.

My reasoning is that if the impacts that likely killed the megafuana and Clovis culture occurred over a period of time, say months, instead of hours, then it is possible that those people or more properly, the survivors,were able to figure out the orbit, and that orbit was very long.

If you knew that something devastating was going to return may thousands of years later, how do you warn the future?

About the only thing that might possibly stand the test of time would be a calendar system. So if you construct the calendar to end at the beginning of the intersection, there is some small hope that people will be prompted to pay greater attention to things around them and pick up on the warning signs. Small hope, but better than nothing.

For what it is worth, that's my theory.

I hope I'm wrong, but with the fireball incidence rising as fast as it is doing, I'm not so sure I am. I think we are now entering the front of a dense cloud of rocks or comet fragments that will intensify come December.

I think that the increase has a lot to do with the freaky global weather; so much extra energy is being put into the upper and middle layers of the atmosphere and that energy is being expressed in the weather. Not to mention that we are heating the bottom pretty hard ourselves. Combined with extra solar input from higher sunspot activity, the totality seems to predict some very bad weather ahead.

Heads up!

apacheman said:

I am beginning to suspect that the "Mayan" calendar, which is not really Mayan, since they inherited it from the Olmec, who got it from who knows where, is actually a countdown calendar the pinpoints an intersection with the dense stream of cometary fragments that caused the Younger Dryas period some 12.5K years ago.

My reasoning is that if the impacts that likely killed the megafuana and Clovis culture occurred over a period of time, say months, instead of hours, then it is possible that those people or more properly, the survivors,were able to figure out the orbit, and that orbit was very long.

If you knew that something devastating was going to return may thousands of years later, how do you warn the future?

About the only thing that might possibly stand the test of time would be a calendar system. So if you construct the calendar to end at the beginning of the intersection, there is some small hope that people will be prompted to pay greater attention to things around them and pick up on the warning signs. Small hope, but better than nothing.

For what it is worth, that's my theory.

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Hello Apacheman!

For what it is worth, your theory seems to me to coincide with the point that Graham Hancock makes in this video:

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2qE0lOIBtE&feature=share

lake_george said:

apacheman said:

I am beginning to suspect that the "Mayan" calendar, which is not really Mayan, since they inherited it from the Olmec, who got it from who knows where, is actually a countdown calendar the pinpoints an intersection with the dense stream of cometary fragments that caused the Younger Dryas period some 12.5K years ago.

My reasoning is that if the impacts that likely killed the megafuana and Clovis culture occurred over a period of time, say months, instead of hours, then it is possible that those people or more properly, the survivors,were able to figure out the orbit, and that orbit was very long.

If you knew that something devastating was going to return may thousands of years later, how do you warn the future?

About the only thing that might possibly stand the test of time would be a calendar system. So if you construct the calendar to end at the beginning of the intersection, there is some small hope that people will be prompted to pay greater attention to things around them and pick up on the warning signs. Small hope, but better than nothing.

For what it is worth, that's my theory.

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Hello Apacheman!

For what it is worth, your theory seems to me to coincide with the point that Graham Hancock makes in this video:

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2qE0lOIBtE&feature=share

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Hi lake_george and apacheman - if you read the articles listed on the left side of the Sott.net home page under the heading "Comets and Catastrophes" you'll see that Laura has been writing articles about this very thing for many, many years now. You might find them interesting.

Also, lake_george, you may want to do a search on Graham Hancock on the forum to read information about him - most of his material is rather suspect.

Thanks for the link.

I never heard of him before, but I agree with his analysis for the most part.

One thing I am absolutely certain of is that civilization is far older than most guess and that various high technologies have evolved and been lost many times.

Our form of high tech is merely one path to similar places that have been developed before. We use a form of flight that is rooted in a particular way of viewing the world and how energies work. Are there other ways? I'd have to say yes.

Btw, yesterday's average was 4.91.

It is important to note that I haven't yet correlated databases from around the world, and that figure represents merely those reported to a single database in the US.

The multiple impacts reported in India and Europe aren't included yet as I haven't found it easy to find records going back several years to be able to spot a trend. I believe, however that the trend lines globally are similar to what is being reported in the US and taken together aggregate into a larger average number per day.

anart said:

Hi lake_george and apacheman - if you read the articles listed on the left side of the Sott.net home page under the heading "Comets and Catastrophes" you'll see that Laura has been writing articles about this very thing for many, many years now. You might find them interesting.

Also, lake_george, you may want to do a search on Graham Hancock on the forum to read information about him - most of his material is rather suspect.

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Thank you Anart! There is so much information that Laura has provided! I am still in the process of reading "The Wave", and just about done with "Secret History". I need a few more hours in the day.