UFO in CEBU?

[bolayog]

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dis week naay news naay sightings sa mid northern towns na naay object na nagbaga nya nikalit
ug explode na kusog kaayo
unsa kaha to no?dli jud ma explianed ang kataw an,o basin nasudlan nata ug alien dri cebu

[fingolfin]

.. official report please. links to any newspaper....

[FK]

reported in CDN... la ko kita og link though.

[tolstoi]

the PAGASA explains the phenomenon as only THUNDER

[fingolfin]

...maybe the japanese is trying out their latest Gundam Suit. seriously, give us more details, this is very intriguing.

[kamikaze426]

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb...l.pag.asa.html

Plane crash blast or UFO? Just thunder and fireball: Pag-asa
By Allan I. Varquez Sun.Star Staff Reporter

There was no plane crash or any explosion of an aircraft Tuesday night, the Air Transportation Office said yesterday, after residents in some towns in northern Cebu reported such sightings.

ATO tower chief Manuel Tompar said all the 157 commercial flights between 11 p.m. Monday and 11 p.m. Tuesday were accounted for.

ATO’s thermal radar, which can pick up incoming and outgoing aircraft at an altitude of 20,000 feet and within a 64-mile radius, did not detect any crash.

“Our radar can pick up planes from the northernmost tip of Cebu to the southernmost end. Besides, if planes enter our air space, there is constant communication between the pilot and the tower until the plane lands,” Tompar said.

Tompar said, though, that their radar cannot detect supersonic jets or a falling meteor because these travel faster than sound.
Very bright meteors are known as fireballs.

Some even thought they saw an unidentified flying object.

Weather specialists at the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pag-asa) in Mactan said the explosion may have been thunder due to the formation of cumulonimbus clouds.

Thunder from cumulonimbus clouds (a massive cloud formation) could be heard two to three kilometers away from its location.

Cumulonimbus clouds are hazardous to air navigation and as soon as they are sighted, Pag-asa informs ATO so aircraft could avoid them.

Cebu Provincial Police Office Director Vicente Loot also said there is no trace of a plane crash or a meteor shower in the northern part of Cebu late afternoon of Tuesday.

A loud explosion past 5 p.m. baffled residents in northern towns.

Loot ordered the police stations in the towns of Tuburan, Tabuelan, Borbon, Bogo and Sogod to investigate, but none reported seeing an object that fell from the sky.

“If an airplane crashed, the impact would not be heard in all towns in the north,” Loot said in a mobile phone interview.

Some residents of Tuburan said they saw a burning object that fell from the sky before the loud explosion.

Police Chief Rolando Yballe said people in the town were talking about the object but when they were asked where it fell, nobody could guide them.

PO1 Mariano Cajes of the Tabuelan police station said he and two other policemen were on patrol in Barangay Tabunok when they heard a powerful explosion.

Two weather experts from Pag-asa explained that cumulonimbus clouds could produce a thunder that can be heard within a radius of two to three kilometers.

“It is an air hazard cloud and we immediately inform ATO when we detect it in order to guide an aircraft from flying near it,” Vangie Tolentino and Jun Amarillo said.

Tolentino said cumulonimbus clouds gather its strength by absorbing more water from the sea and as they become bigger, they create thunderstorms and heavy downpour.

Large cumulonimbus clouds are associated with powerful thunderstorms known as supercells, which produce frequent lightning, large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.

These thunderstorms tend to develop during the afternoon and early evening when the effects of heating by the sun are strongest.

[K|D]

meteorite or thunder?

[FK]

possible... if people see an object in the sky and not able to identify it.

but not the kind of UFO that has aliens.

[Iron Eagle]

the question..is there really a UFO

tha statment of PAG-ASA maybe possible.

[yacky2006]

basin ALIENS na gyud ni....

http://globalnation.inq7.net/cebudai...ticle_id=14699

Pagasa to probe ‘UFOs’ in Cebu, Bacolod


Cebu Daily News
Last updated 10:52am (Mla time) 08/11/2006

THE Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) will conduct separate investigations on reported sightings of unidentified flying object (UFO) in Bacolod City and Cebu.

Dr. Cynthia Celebre, Pagasa chief of the astronomy research and development section, said they would send a team to sitio Vista Alegre in Bacolod where an object resembling like a nipa-hut was seen flying on Sunday.

“The team will conduct interviews on people who witnessed the unusual phenomenon in order for us to arrive at a conclusion,” she said.

The investigation was conducted upon the request of the Department of Science and Technology, she added.

Celebre said in an interview over dyLA that they would first get details from Pagasa on Mactan Island about the reported sighting of a flying object that crashed and exploded along the mid-north towns.

She said she would ask the Pagasa-Mactan personnel to make a letter-request, which would be made as basis for sending a team of astronomers there to conduct a probe.

Residents in eight northern towns claimed to have seen “a ball of fire” on Monday afternoon that crashed and exploded upon hitting the ground. The impact was so strong that it reportedly shook the earth and created a loud noise.

Local and police officials had searched for the mysterious object but found nothing.

Air Transportation Office (ATO) in Cebu and the Armed Forces Central Command had not also receive any reports of a plane crash.

Jun Ramirez, ATO assistant supervisor in Mactan, earlier said the object could not be an aircraft because nothing registered in its monitoring system. The object, he added, could be classified as a UFO because it could not be identified.

Celebre said the supposed “UFO” could be part of the Perseid meteor shower, which would peak between Aug. 10 and 14.

Before the period, she added, meteor shower occurs but not as many during the peak days when about 60 meteors would be seen.

“Maaring umpisa na iyon kung sinasabi ninyo na nangyari ito sa (Maybe it was the start if this happened on) Aug. 8 pero papaimbistigahan natin para malaman natin kung ano iyon (but we will have it investigated to determine what it was),” she said.

Celebre said meteors usually glow as they fall to the earth due to the change in temperature. The outer space is colder compared to the surface of the earth.

But when it enters the earth atmosphere, the meteor changes temperature and heats up, causing it to glow.

Most meteors would just disintegrate upon entering the earth's atmosphere. But when it is so big, it is not reduced into fragments. Instead, it hits the ground and then exploded.