Re: [nukkad] Mystery ball of fire falls in Khopoli

["Anirudh Pathak" <>]

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Well this is a surprise. I was on chat with a friend in panvel around that time 
and she told me that a plane has crashed there about 10 minutes from her house. 

dont know what to make of it.

as confused as everyone else ...

-A

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 Manoj Pai wrote :
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>Could somebody residing in those areas please investigate?
>
>Manoj Pai
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>Mystery ball of fire falls in Khopoli
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>http://www.mid-day.com/news/city/2005/january/101299.htm
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>By: The Mid Day Team
>January 12, 2005
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>Khopoli/Mumbai: "I saw a huge ball of fire in the air. It raced down to the
>earth so fast that before I could do anything, my house shook and all my
>utensils came crashing down," said Gangaram Waghmare, caretaker of a
>farmhouse in Apata village near Khopoli, nearly 100 kms from Mumbai.
>
>Like 6,000 other villagers, Waghmare is in a state of shock after the
>mysterious fireball explosions that shook Horale, Wavoshi, Chriner, Apta,
>Kharapada and other villages in the vicinity of Khopoli, Uran and Panvel at
>around 8.30 pm yesterday.
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>An almost twister-like effect was also detected in the jungle areas of
>Bazruddin, Wavochi and Karoshi, which saw trees swaying.
>
>A series of explosions was heard simultaneously in these villages, and
>locals ran out of their houses fearing they would come crashing down.
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>Most villagers remained out side their homes all through last night. "The
>noise was so loud, for a moment I thought I had turned deaf. It was almost
>like a huge bomb blast," said R Chaitanya, a resident of Pen. Chaitanya in
>fact left his home and rushed to his friend's home in Panvel to stay there
>for a while.
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>What the "ball of fire" and "explosion" was, and what caused it, was however
>unclear till late last night.
>
>While Air Traffic Control officials ruled out an aircraft crash, the Mumbai
>Meteorological Department ruled out any asteroid or meteorite fall, and the
>Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) officials in Mumbai dismissed the
>possibility of any part of a satellite falling.
>
>Police and government officials too could not figure out what the "fireball"
>was. Ashok Mhatre, tehsildar of Khalapur, said he rushed out of his house on
>hearing the loud noise.
>
>"When I came out to inquire, people told me they had seen something like an
>aeroplane," Mhatre said.
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>A patrolling cop D D Bharsat in Bharapada village told Mid Day he saw fire
>with smoke and that its impact sent leaves and other articles from the
>ground circling into the air.
>
>Bhaskar Wankhede, collector, Raigad, said, "We have sent teams across
>Raigad, but they haven't found anything untoward. I have spoken to Navy
>officials at the Nhava Sheva base. They have radar facilities but even they
>haven't detected any plane or any flying object."
>
>Officials from the Khopoli fire brigade were also not able to shed any
>light. "Some are saying it's a plane crash, while according to others it was
>an earthquake," said a fire official.
>
>Superintendent Dnyaneshwar Phadtare of Raigad police said, "The villagers
>here have heard the sound but it is still not clear if it was an explosion,
>a quake or a fireball," he said.
>
>Police have also not found the exact place where the "explosion" occurred.
>
>"Our men are travelling from village to village to find out the exact spot
>of the unidentified explosion. Many have heard the explosion but nobody has
>yet been able to pinpoint the spot," Phadtare noted.
>
>(Inputs by Vinod Kumar Menon, Bhupen Patel, Kashif Khusro, Gigil Varghese
>and Yogesh Naik)
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