Endeavour causes alarm in Central America

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Endeavour causes alarm in Central America

#1 Postby Macrocane » Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:22 pm

Yesterday at 9:00 pm (local time) the Endeavour passed right over Central America skies and caused alarm in El Salvador and Honduras, an explosion was heard and the people saw a fireball on the sky, we are not used to see this kind of events so there was a lot of rumours.

Unfortunately I couldn't see the Endevour but I heard the noise, and I thought it was an explosion or something similar, and my parents thought that someone had hit their head with the wall :lol:

In both countries the media and the government institutions received a lot of phone calls asking for explanations, at the end everything was made claer and it ended up being a nice experience for the witnesses.

Here is the link in Spanish to a Salvadoran newspaper site with the info: http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/nota/nota_completa.asp?idCat=8613&idArt=4542842

And this one is the link to a Honduran newspaper: http://www.tiempo.hn/secciones/el-pais/11233-aterrizaje-del-endeavour-provoca-conmocion-en-honduras

And here is a link of a video taken in El Salvador:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl7hEjEwYOg
They thought that it was a meteorite or a "NASA thing", and the girl at the end says "I'm scared" :)
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Re: Endeavour causes alarm in Central America

#2 Postby vbhoutex » Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:33 pm

I'm a little surprised this hasn't happened before. glad it was cleared up quickly so people weren't freaking out too long wondering what was going on.
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