Hartsville Update: No Lightning on July 6, 2001

National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) has 108 sensors throughout United States. Graphic courtesy LightningStorm.com and Global Atmospherics, Inc.
National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) has 108 sensors throughout United States. Graphic courtesy LightningStorm.com and Global Atmospherics, Inc.

July 25, 2001  Tucson, Arizona - Since several atmospheric scientists suggested that the abnormal power surge in Hartsville, Tennessee on July 6, 2001 at 10:45 a.m. might have been a rare clear day lightning strike, I contacted the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN), the only national lightning detection network in the United States. The network has more than 108 sensors that instantaneously detect the electromagnetic signals given off when lightning strikes the earth's surface. Each sensor transmits the lightning information via satellite to the Network Control Center (NCC) in Tucson, Arizona. Using data from two or more sensors, the "intersection" of the data enables the determination of a strike location with a 15 mile radius.

 

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Abnormal July Heat in 2001

Map by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where red indicates highest temperatures projected for July 31 to August 4, 2001 after previous week of abnormally high temperatures.
Map by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where red indicates highest temperatures projected for July 31 to August 4, 2001 after previous week of abnormally high temperatures.


July 25, 2001  Washington, D. C. ­ Late July 2001 temperatures in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and New Mexico have averaged five to ten degrees above normal. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Weather Service, central Kansas hit 109 degrees Fahrenheit and southwest Oklahoma sweltered at 108 degrees F.

 

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Missing Link Between Humans and Chimpanzees ­Ethiopian Forest Bipeds 5.8 Million Years Ago?

140 miles northeast of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, near the Awash River marked in orange, paleontologists have discovered bones of a primate dubbed Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba which might have been the first upright ancestor to human lineage 5.8 million years ago.
140 miles northeast of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, near the Awash River marked in orange, paleontologists have discovered bones of a primate dubbed Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba which might have been the first upright ancestor to human lineage 5.8 million years ago.

July 21, 2001  Alayla, Ethiopia - A graduate student named Yohannes Haile-Selassie studying paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley, found bones on December 16, 1997 at a site 140 miles northeast of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia which might be the missing link in evolving primates that went on to become humans. This creature, Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba, might have been the first primate to walk upright and the oldest human ancestor who lived in Ethiopian forests, not grassy plains, as far back as 5.8 million years ago. That's a million and a half years earlier than any other previous discovery and challenges the long held theory that primates stood up when they moved from trees to grassy plains.

 

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Continual Power Surges Force Hartsville, Tennessee’s WJKM Radio to Move

At least sixty birds were found dead with feathers burned and melted, scattered all over the yard around country music radio station WJKM (1090 AM) on July 6, 2001 in Hartsville, Tennessee. Photograph © 2001 by David Randall.
At least sixty birds were found dead with feathers burned and melted, scattered all over the yard around country music radio station WJKM (1090 AM) on July 6, 2001 in Hartsville, Tennessee. Photograph © 2001 by David Randall.

July 18, 2001  Hartsville, Tennessee ­ Today I learned from Ted Randall that dead birds with burned wings were found all over Hartsville's city park, a diameter of at least a mile. In fact, in the afternoon of that same day, power surges and dimming lights were reported at an insurance company more than a mile from WJKM. This afternoon, I talked with Ted Randall and Dave Fluehe, owner of Dave's Covert Surveillance in Hartsville who provides electronic camera and video security monitoring equipment to businesses. On July 6 in the afternoon, Dave Fluehe was in an insurance company more than a mile away from WJKM when more electronic interference occurred.

 

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Mysterious, Destructive Power Surge at WJKM Radio in Hartsville, Tennessee

One of the sixty some dead bird's burned and melted wings after mysterious power surge hit WJKM in Hartsville, Tennessee at 10:45 a.m. on July 6, 2001. Photograph © 2001 by David Randall.
One of the sixty some dead bird's burned and melted wings after mysterious power surge hit WJKM in Hartsville, Tennessee at 10:45 a.m. on July 6, 2001. Photograph © 2001 by David Randall.

July 14, 2001 Hartsville, Tennessee - Friday, July 6, was a clear and sunny morning. But at 10:45 a.m., something very odd surged through the air, radio transmitter, power and phone lines at country music radio station WJKM (1090 AM) near the city park in downtown Hartsville, Tennessee. It also affected theVidette newspaper office next door and shocked one of the employees sitting at her desk.

 

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Beyond Stonehenge with Astronomer Gerald Hawkins

Stonehenge, constructed of sarsen granite more than 4,000 years ago, on the gently rolling pastures of Wiltshire County, England, west of Andover. Photograph © 2000 by Linda Moulton Howe.
Stonehenge, constructed of sarsen granite more than 4,000 years ago, on the gently rolling pastures of Wiltshire County, England, west of Andover. Photograph © 2000 by Linda Moulton Howe.

June 16, 2001  Washington, D. C. - Astronomer Gerald S. Hawkins, Ph.D., educated at Manchester University in England and now retired in Washington and Virginia, wrote a book in 1973 entitled Beyond Stonehenge. The Daily Express in London wrote about it, "If Hawkins is right, and most experts now agree that he must be, then Stonehenge is the Eighth Wonder of the ancient world."

 

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Update on Mysterious Deep Water Sonar Images Off Western Cuba

Western tip of Cuba, not far from the Yucatan Peninsula, where unusual sonar images at 2,200 feet suggest unnatural structures covering several square kilometers.
Western tip of Cuba, not far from the Yucatan Peninsula, where unusual sonar images at 2,200 feet suggest unnatural structures covering several square kilometers.

June 13, 2001  Havana, Cuba - When I reported last month on COAST about the Cuba discovery, I had an interview with Barbara Moffet, Director of Plans and Programs at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D. C., who confirmed that the Society was aware of the deep water mystery off the western tip of Cuba. She said NGS was communicating with Paulina Zelitsky and her husband, Paul Weinzweig, partners in Canada's Advanced Digital Communications company, known as ADC. Last month, National Geographic was trying to decide whether to help fund a dive in a remotely operated vehicle with cameras to see what is down there. Today, I talked again with Barbara Moffet and she confirmed that National Geographic has now made an agreement for exclusive magazine coverage.

 

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Environmental Updates and Colt Mutilated in Leitchfield, Kentucky

Three-month-old male colt found dead the morning of May 25, 2001 on a horse farm owned by Mike and Rose Downs of Leitchfield, Kentucky. Photograph courtesy Sheriff Joe Brad Hudson, Grayson County Sheriff's Department.
Three-month-old male colt found dead the morning of May 25, 2001 on a horse farm owned by Mike and Rose Downs of Leitchfield, Kentucky. Photograph courtesy Sheriff Joe Brad Hudson, Grayson County Sheriff's Department.


June 9, 2001 Washington, D. C. - This week President George Bush heard his own personally hand-picked scientific panel tell him that global warming is real, man-made, poses threats in the future and that the global temperature could rise between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit over this century. When Bush created the panel in March, the President said he was unsure that global warming was a real phenomenon. Now his own panel of climate experts, including a Nobel Prize winner and members of the National Academy of Sciences, has answered with these sobering words:

 

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Another Unusual “Face” On Mars

Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) MOC narrow-angle image M02-03051 of unusual face-like surface feature in valley of Libya Montes near equator on Mars, approximately 275 degrees West and 2.66 degrees North. Image released by MSSS on May 22, 2000. To find this feature, it is necessary to turn the original MOC image upside down.
Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) MOC narrow-angle image M02-03051 of unusual face-like surface feature in valley of Libya Montes near equator on Mars, approximately 275 degrees West and 2.66 degrees North. Image released by MSSS on May 22, 2000. To find this feature, it is necessary to turn the original MOC image upside down.

June 2, 2001 Tempe, Arizona - Unusual surface features on Mars imaged by the Global Surveyor continue to provoke controversy among scientists and civilians. One such image looks like a female face taken a year ago in May 2000 in the valley of Libya Montes near the Martian equator, but not publicized until the New York Post featured the image on May 9 after a press conference by astronomer Tom Van Flandern, Ph.D. and former astronaut Brian O'Leary. This week I discussed the face image with planetary geologist, David Nelson. Mr. Nelson is a Research Specialist in the Department of Geological Sciences at Arizona State University in Tempe. His current work is to study the Mars Global Surveyor images and to contribute ideas about where the next NASA Mars Excursion landing sites should be in January 2004. Two rovers are planned for that mission and one likely exploration site will be near sedimentary deposits in the walls of Valles Marineris, the 3000 mile long canyon that runs near the Martian equator.

 

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Federal GAO Report Does Not Rule Out Cell Phone Dangers

May 25, 2001 Washington, D. C. - The United States now has one hundred fifteen million cell phone subscribers. In only three more years, global use of cell phones is estimated to reach 2.1 billion . Yet, no one can guarantee their safety.

 

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