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ParaNet File Number: 00214
(6864) Fri 5 Apr 91 5:49p
By: Neptune.convex.com!swarren@scicom.a
To: All
Re: Fiery Objects Fall On Northern Texas
St: Sent Reply in 7164
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From: neptune.convex.com!swarren@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM
Date: 5 Apr 91 18:54:05 GMT
Message-ID: <11418@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
Newsgroups: info.paranet
From: swarren@neptune.convex.com (Steve Warren)
This was in today's (Friday 4/5/91) issue of The
Dallas Morning News (bottom of page 21A).
In light of the recent discussions regarding
sightings of fireballs, I thought some of the
Paranet readers would find it interesting, so I
typed in the article this morning.
Enjoy:
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SIRENS GO OFF; NO ONE KNOWS WHY
Teletype, 'Fiery Objects' in Sky Add to Mystery
By Todd Copilevitz and Nita Thurman
Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
A cryptic Teletype about a ground fire and 'fiery
objects' falling from the sky - followed by civil
defense sirens apparently sounding off on their
own - had Dallas officials humming the theme from
The Twilight Zone on Thursday.
Beginning at 1:47 a.m., the 911 switchboard was
flooded with phone calls from residents in the
Eastern third of the city wanting to know the
reason for the sirens.
Authorities wanted to know, too.
Computer tapes did not show that anyone had
triggered the sirens - or even that they were
sounding, said Bobby J. Martinez, assistant
director of Dallas' Office of Emergency
Preparedness.
But three minutes before the sirens went off,
police received a Teletype from the North
American Aerospace Defense Command, which
monitors the skies for falling objects such as
enemy missiles and space debris.
The message - first sent to the Texas Department
of Public Safety in Austin, then relayed to
police departments, read:
'Report from national warning center on hot spot
or possible ground fire 28 miles North of
Longview. Are attempting to locate fire now. At
approximately same time national warning center
received reports of fiery objects falling from
sky east of Oklahoma City. Are investigating a
possible correlation of the two sightings.
Request any agency receiving similar reports
forward information to DPS Austin
communications.'
Moments later, according to telephone logs,
people started calling about the sirens.
'This place was going nuts,' said one police
communications worker. 'They kept expecting Rod
Serling to step out of the corner,' she said,
referring to the host of the old Twilight Zone
television show.
Mr. Martinez said the city's 94 sirens can be
turned on only by the watch commander at the
police communications center or the Office of
Emergency Preparedness.
'Dallas police do not indicate that they sounded
the sirens, and we weren't even in the office at
that time,' he said.
There is no way for a teletype to trigger the
127-decibel sirens automatically, Mr. Martinez
said.
Police and emergency preparedness officials tried
to turn the sirens off, but with limited success.
The sirens went back on as many as three times
before Mr. Martinez's office disabled the city's
entire system at 3:00 a.m.
'It became obvious that the system was not going
to reset on its own, so our only choice was to
disable it,' he said.
NORAD officials said they had issued the teletype
about midnight Dallas time. Apparently there was
a delay in transmission of the message from the
DPS in Austin to local police.
Meanwhile, the bright objects mentioned in the
NORAD Teletype were reported by residents across
North Texas.
Mike Ames, 25, of The Colony (a city in the North
Dallas area - SW) said he was jogging in a rural
area when he saw a ball of fire streak across the
sky from northwest to southeast sometime after 9
p.m.
'I thought it was a satellite coming down,' he
said. 'I thought I was going to get hit by some
debris.
'I could see flames coming off ...and it had this
big tale.'
A fisherman on Lake Whitney, 35 miles north of
Waco, called the National Weather Service in Fort
Worth to report that the whole lake lit up and
debris fell everywhere, said a weather service
spokesman.
'We had three or four calls here from people
wondering what the light was,' said meteorologist
Jesse Moore. 'All we can say is it wasn't
weather-related.'
As for he report of a ground fire in northeast
Texas, Upshur County deputies said a thorough
search turned up nothing.
'They couldn't locate anything,' said sheriff's
Capt. Nancy Betterton. 'There just wasn't
anything there.'
In addition to plenty of mystery, Mr. Martinez
said the episode provided one benefit:
'At least we know now that the sirens are loud
enough to wake people if necessary.'
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