AP: Powerful meteor explosion reported in Cuba (VIDEO?)

Published: February 16th, 2013 at 11:34 am ET
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AP, 10:47a ET: Cuba reports powerful meteorite explosion [...] Cuba apparently experienced a phenomenon similar to the meteorite that detonated over Russia this week, island media reported, with startled residents describing a bright light in the sky and a loud explosion that shook windows and walls. [...] In a video from a state TV newscast posted on the website CubaSi late Friday, unidentified residents of the central city of Rodas, near Cienfuegos, said the explosion was impressive. [...] Marcos Rodriguez, whom the video identified as a specialist in anthropology, said all signs point to a meteorite. [...]

Havana Times: [...] Witnesses reported the fall of a celestial phenomenon that ended with a huge explosion with a very bright light in the sky that shook their homes, said ANSA citing the Cuban morning TV news program as its source. [...]

Xinhua: An object fell from the sky over central Cuba on Thursday night and turned into a fireball “bigger than the sun” before it exploded, a Cuban TV channel reported Friday, citing eyewitnesses. [...] The object then turned into a fireball “bigger than the sun,” said the witnesses, adding that several minutes later they heard a loud explosion. [...] It remains unknown whether the reported phenomenon in Cuba is related to Friday’s meteor strike in central Russia [...]

UPDATE: Video reportedly showing meteor over Cuba appears to be footage from 2007 (h/t Anonynous tip)

Published: February 16th, 2013 at 11:34 am ET
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NoNukes

February 17, 2013 at 1:58 am

Russia, Cuba, San Francisco…these meteors sure have a thing for commies…

btw, in the land of capitalism, gas prices are going way up fast, and the price of gold is going down, lots of action everywhere…

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-02-15/gold-leaps-backwardation

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NoNukes

February 17, 2013 at 2:10 pm Log in to Reply

You know what is falling faster than a stone from the sky? The value of that U.S. dollar in your pocket.

Maybe Enenews could start marketing wheelbarrows so that we could collect all the space rocks *and* bring our dollars to the store to buy a loaf of bread. Russia and China and Germany and Brazil and India and South Africa, etc…all moving away from trade by way of the dollar, from using the dollar as the "reserve currency."

http://www.chicagogasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-11/24/content_11599087.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k

http://www.dailypaul.com/223065/brics-brazil-russia-india-china-and-south-africa-move-to-unseat-us-dollar-as-trade-currency

http://www.moneymorning.com.au/20130215/the-first-shots-in-a-1930s-style-currency-war.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-g20-meeting-20130217,0,2819204.story

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markww

February 17, 2013 at 6:15 am

Breaking news NASA makes a new discovery on the meteor in Russia. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., now say the meteor weighed about 10,000 tons and was traveling 40,000 mph (64,373 km/h) when it exploded Read more at

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-meteor-blast-bigger-thought-nasa-says-234920189.html

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irhologram

February 17, 2013 at 7:05 am

Uummm. When was the last time you saw a meteor …let's say it was traveling 40K per hour in this Cuba instance…turn into a fireball brighter than the sun… With no explosion heard for SEVERAL MINUTES before the explosion was heard? Several usually means more than two…so for three minutes or so after this fireball was seen…we get the explosion. How many miles away does this make the meteor, if we"re I pushing sound travel to gauge distance?