This was a post on Facebook. I don’t know the person other than that.
What do you think happened here?
My brother, Joseph Tomes and I did a back country hunt on an island 9 miles off the coast of the Michigan mainland. The trip was supposed to be 8 days, but we were pulled off early for a "I cant believe this happened" incident, and bad weather approaching...
I'm by no means an expert in this field, but just before this incident my brother saw a streak through the sky, while on the phone with his wife, 200 yards from our campsite. The following morning we spoke to the neighboring spike camp, who mentioned the saw a streak through the sky before they heard the explosion.
From inside the shelter, this is what I saw....
I was laying on my ultralight cot, trying to get signal on my phone to text my kids and wife after finishing a peak refuel meal. I hiked 15 miles throughout the entire day, and had a fire going on my seek outside titanium wood burner.
With no warning, something caused ab huge explosion and blew fire, ash and coals all over me. My wood burner was on its side, and the ground cover in my shelter was on fire. The hot coals and wood were all over me, my cot, sleeping bag and all my gear. The interior of the tent immediately filled with smoke, because the stove pipe was knocked off of the wood burner.
Joe Tomes was outside, near my shelter when it happened and ran over to help, not knowing what just occurred.
After exiting the shelter, putting the fire out, and trying to determine what happened. We found my wood burner on its side with excessive unrepairable damage, and a backpack stove canister with a large dent in the top with the bottom blown off. The fuel canister was 3' behind the back right corner of the wood stove, the same place I always put it after using it to heat a meal.
Here is the wood stove, hole in the tent, stove pipe and fuel canister with damage, also indicating a heavy blow from the top down. I believe one of the rocks I had on my wood stove was blown off and hit the fuel canister, causing it to rupture, and fill my tent with flammable vapors. I cannot explain the damage to my stove, except it was a meteor.
I was laying 10" from the stove upon impact...
We looked that night, and the following morning for any indication of a meteor, but could not find anything due to the coals and ash on the ground, and the existing vine like ground cover. It may have fragmented on impact. There was also a small dent on the fuel canister, possibly caused from the meteor fragmenting.
Let me know what you think....
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What do you think happened here?
My brother, Joseph Tomes and I did a back country hunt on an island 9 miles off the coast of the Michigan mainland. The trip was supposed to be 8 days, but we were pulled off early for a "I cant believe this happened" incident, and bad weather approaching...
I'm by no means an expert in this field, but just before this incident my brother saw a streak through the sky, while on the phone with his wife, 200 yards from our campsite. The following morning we spoke to the neighboring spike camp, who mentioned the saw a streak through the sky before they heard the explosion.
From inside the shelter, this is what I saw....
I was laying on my ultralight cot, trying to get signal on my phone to text my kids and wife after finishing a peak refuel meal. I hiked 15 miles throughout the entire day, and had a fire going on my seek outside titanium wood burner.
With no warning, something caused ab huge explosion and blew fire, ash and coals all over me. My wood burner was on its side, and the ground cover in my shelter was on fire. The hot coals and wood were all over me, my cot, sleeping bag and all my gear. The interior of the tent immediately filled with smoke, because the stove pipe was knocked off of the wood burner.
Joe Tomes was outside, near my shelter when it happened and ran over to help, not knowing what just occurred.
After exiting the shelter, putting the fire out, and trying to determine what happened. We found my wood burner on its side with excessive unrepairable damage, and a backpack stove canister with a large dent in the top with the bottom blown off. The fuel canister was 3' behind the back right corner of the wood stove, the same place I always put it after using it to heat a meal.
Here is the wood stove, hole in the tent, stove pipe and fuel canister with damage, also indicating a heavy blow from the top down. I believe one of the rocks I had on my wood stove was blown off and hit the fuel canister, causing it to rupture, and fill my tent with flammable vapors. I cannot explain the damage to my stove, except it was a meteor.
I was laying 10" from the stove upon impact...
We looked that night, and the following morning for any indication of a meteor, but could not find anything due to the coals and ash on the ground, and the existing vine like ground cover. It may have fragmented on impact. There was also a small dent on the fuel canister, possibly caused from the meteor fragmenting.
Let me know what you think....
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