According to a translation of two Spanish-language sources, Cubans witnessed a brilliant meteor or meteorite Wednesday.
Here’s the first source, strained through Google Translate.
Residents of a locality ‘in the central region of Cuba said they had seen an object that fell from the sky and exploded with a great noise, which shook the houses of the place: it is learned from testimonies collected by local television.
In a report released this morning by Rodas, town in the province of Cienfuegos, witnesses described a very bright light that has come to have large size, comparable to that of a bus, before exploding in the sky.
More at the link from the workers’ paradise.
It only took two comments for someone to propose that this is all the result of a secret US weapons program.
Which, honestly, would be pretty cool.
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Good movie. The asteroid mining companies are CIA fronts to lasso an asteroid in case they wish to do a clean-hands strike against an enemy. Julia Roberts finds out, is slapped around with a male co-star half her age and emerges triumphant with a NYTimes headline exposing the whole affair and with her hair perfect.
And her neckline low.
that would be her body double’s neckline low!
Given the state of the Cuban economy and their infrastructure, which is to say the least, not much more than a pile of 1950′s era rubble that’s masquerading itself as a country, then I have to ask how the locals could tell the difference between being hit by a rock from space and any given Friday morning?
As poor as Russians are, at least they have embraced capitalist market forces enough to provide people with cars, windows with glass, and functioning cameras and internet connections for documentation. Perhaps some day we will be able to go to Cuba and study etchings on coconuts which document today’s historic astronomical phenomenon…
In the case of Cuba, the meteorite strike might raise their property values quite a bit.
It sounds like a joke, but it it isn’t.
Meteorite fragments go for quite a bit of money.
HEADLINE: “Rubble Pile Strikes Rubble Pile: No Apparent Effect.”
Don’t we have a forward observer base there?
Can’t they let us know what the coordinates were? Maybe they can tell us how they engineered the flyby as a cover for the actual shot.
/(Already working on the next novel)
Dammit, aliens, don’t bother with Russia and Cuba. Hit Mecca!
One of those sources was not Spanish, but Italian.
Too bad there were no videos from Cuba. Ah, the joys of a Communist economy!
They’re sending pencil drawings by motor launch.
DC next!!
We wish to pride ourselves with our knowledge and technology and yet no one saw this coming. Think of a little deeper approach with the the cross-hairs on LA. What movie?
Haha, Cubans got meteor envy.