The first part of this is from a mb and since russian media has been
known to over sensationalize I have been waiting to see if any other
media picked the story up.
Never_Surrender <Send E-Mail>
Date: Friday, 16 July 2004, 5:34 p.m.
THIS ARTICLE IS A ROUGH TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN....
links to article and site used to translate on bottom of page...
The sky pytaet Egypt a fiery rain
Oksana GOLOLOBOVA, on July, 16, 17:02
The Arabian mass-media transfer, that the present fiery downpour
has fallen upon a number of villages in southern Egyptian province
Sohag - so has characterized the unusual phenomenon local population.
However, behind the beautiful name serious accident which already has
ruined some inhabitants of the country disappears.
Heated "drops" in huge quantity fall from the sky on roofs of
buildings, setting fire to straw covering them and a reed.
Constructions flash as a match, the flame has captured already more
than 80 apartment houses. From an asthma and burns have suffered about
60 person, two small children were lost at least. In the Egyptian
settlements where the fiery rain goes the third day, firemen
constantly are on duty.
Police and forces of safety of the country conduct consequence.
Authorities try to find out an origin so strange unknown hitherto a
phenomenon. There are already some versions of an event. pogoreltsy
are inclined to trust in overseas metamorphosises, they assert, that
on their houses anything fell other, as fiery spheres.
Others try to explain tragedy household incidents: the some people
speak, that when the temperature of air reaches +55°N, at pets and
birds the wool and feathers starts to decay. The cat who has received
a burn or the rabbit starts to rush in a panic on a court yard and
climbs up a roof of houses that leads to to distribution of fire.
However scientists count, that speech, most likely, goes about a
meteoric rain: pieces of breed flying from space light up in an
atmosphere. However, the exact reason of mass fires till now and
remains a riddle.
For the information: the Meteoric rain - the unique astronomical
phenomenon. His kinds which can be observed at various times year and
with different periodicity are known some.
For example, " a star downpour ", "Leonid" named astronomers, it
is possible to see seldom enough - each 33 years when about the Earth
comet Templa-Tattla flies by. "Leonids" are her chastichki which
breaking away, generously shower our planet.
The name has received the phenomenon because there are meteorites
from that part of a space where there is constellation Leo.
Encyclopaedic editions assert, that the most ancient on supervision
the meteoric stream has been marked by Chinese in 1768 B.C.
Time in 130 years the Earth passes through a dust tail of a comet
of Swift - Tattla and then meteoric stream Perseid reaches the maximal
activity, dumping on us thousand "tail" meteorites.
And in general, " falling stars " can be observed every year in
second half of summer. Always was considered, that they do not
represent for people of danger - chastichki reach our planet extremely
seldom, and in history yet there was no case that the meteorite has
done much harm to the person. To tell the truth, more than 50 years in
the Great Britain the fragment of a meteorite has killed the cow.
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Here is the original article....
http://www.utro.ru/articles/2004/07/16/330504.shtml
Here is the translation of the article from this site....
http://www.online-translator.com/srvurl.asp?lang=en
And here is the reuters version, a few days later.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5706645
Blazes Start 'Balls of Fire' Rumors
Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:27 AM ET
CAIRO (Reuters) - A series of fires in the southern Egyptian
province of Sohag has destroyed some 160 houses, giving rise to rumors
that spirits are at work or mysterious balls of fire are falling from
the sky, a local official said Sunday.
But the causes are mundane -- kerosene stoves, cigarette butts and
electrical short circuits, Brigadier Ezzat Aboul Kassem told Reuters.
Flaming pigeons, their feathers set alight in the blazes, may explain
talk of balls of fire, he added.
Two children have died in the fires, which started last month, and
about 30 people have been injured, either from burns or from smoke
inhalation, security officials said.
Aboul Kassem, who is director of police investigations in Sohag,
said the number of fires was higher than usual this year, at 25 for
the first half of July against 15 in the same period last year,
possibly because the weather has been hotter.
"Investigations have shown that there are burned pigeons on top of
some of the burned houses and it's probable that they fell there after
catching fire at other houses," he said. "Maybe that explains the
rumors of balls of fire falling from the sky."
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It's all true. They were the result of a test from a microwave beam prototype
weapon.
Tangents are infinite in all of nature in
all 21 universes constantly and at random.
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