AR fire chief finds flames shooting from hole in the ground. Meteorite? Space Junk? Other?

Snippets:

When fire chief Donald Tucker arrived at the scene early Monday morning, it was exactly as a 911 caller had reported. Tucker said, "A fire was burning roughly two feet in diameter, eight feet tall. And it burned for approximately 40 minutes."



Once the fire burned out, Tucker told the News-Leader that he took a temperature reading — it was 780 degrees inside, he said. The hole was about 3 and a half feet deep, making a sharp 45° turn at the bottom. "There's no sign of a strike, no splashed dirt around the edge," he said.



Arkansas Geological Survey Professional Geologist Ty Johnson said,
"I can't think of any geologic situation that would allow that to happen. Not in this area. There's not any fossil fuels, or natural gas or petroleum that occurs in the area."



“We don’t believe that the devil showed up, or the meteorites landed, or the big booms happened,” said judge Mickey Pendergrass

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So what do you think ATS? Forgotten homemade incendiary device? Vented gas burnoff from Deep Underground Military Base operations? Fallen space debri? Plasma weapon test/misfire? Micro Ufo orb crash? A failed meth experiment (I once overheard some tweekers in a jailhouse talking about growing meth crystals in the ground with black walnuts, lol)??

My main question is why they couldn't snap a photo while it was still burning!

a reply to: Prene

Is it possible that a lightning strike and water from a rain fall started the fire combined with certain geological feature caused this?

a reply to: Prene

Sorry to be that guy, already posted. www.abovetopsecret.com...

originally posted by: LightSpeedDriver
a reply to: Prene

Sorry to be that guy, already posted. www.abovetopsecret.com...

I wasn’t going to be that guy. Still fun to see threads like these rather than....well ya know.

There are acids that may be able to do this, but using a lot of it.
Aqua Regia perhaps. The fumes would have been as toxic as phosgene gas, however.

Could be a dead dried stump that got set on fire. Turns at the bottom because so do the roots.

a reply to: Prene

originally posted by: Athetos
Could be a dead dried stump that got set on fire. Turns at the bottom because so do the roots.

a reply to: Prene

Wow , if they could figure a way to repeat that on another stump.... Cha Ching...
I do not know how even a real dry embedded stump could produce high flames out of the ground.

originally posted by: charlyv

originally posted by: Athetos
Could be a dead dried stump that got set on fire. Turns at the bottom because so do the roots.

a reply to: Prene

Wow , if they could figure a way to repeat that on another stump.... Cha Ching...
I do not know how even a real dry embedded stump could produce high flames out of the ground.

combine the stump theory with a natuaral gas source and a tall flame would be possible. Our county dump used to catch on fire and smoulder under ground.
When the under ground smouldering stuff would hit a pocket of "rot gas" it would erupt in some pretty impressive jets of flame!

originally posted by: LightSpeedDriver
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Sorry to be that guy, already posted. www.abovetopsecret.com...

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