UFO prevents meteor from hitting earth

That was my thought,, not unlike the movie armageddon. UFO or military aircraft? The likely hood is more a military aircraft shooting a missile into the meteor to break it up.

What type of aircraft can travel at the speed of a meteor to chase it down and destroy it?

Never mind, I guess I should do more research before posting.

According to Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomy web site.
"http://www.badastronomy.com/bitesize/leonid_kaboom.html"

The only travel at about 100 km/h.

Sorry for the bad post.

[edit on 13-3-2005 by bpletcj]

after seeing the video it looks like a reg. metor breakup. i agree with _Anubis_ on the video glitchs it doesn't look like that light is doing anything

^Its not that hard to see huh?

Did any of you go frame by frame on the slow demonstration? You can clearly see that its a glitch.

Originally posted by _Anubis_
^Its not that hard to see huh?

nope

Musclor, you are GOD! I was trying to find that vid for AGES! however I did see this a while back though...

Yeah, the "beam" IS probably a glitch, but who knows?

The picture in the first post looks like the Space shuttle Columbia break up

I'm not usually one to inject logic into a situation, whatever a situation is, but it could have been a SAM (surface to air missile) that was launched.