Meteor in Bantam Lake?

[engdiver]

Has anyone else seen this article about a awhale sized object falling into Bantam Lake? I wonder if a search for it is practical.

Glowing whale-sized object falls from sky into Connecticut lake, motorist says | Fox News

 

[diversteve]

You'd have to think it's buried very deep in the mud but if you did find it - it's probably very metallic so maybe a side-scan sonar? - it's probably worth a lot of money to the right people. I know slices of certain small meteors sell here in the thousands of dollars at the Tucson gem show.

Of course getting it out might be the bigger problem...

 

[DepthCharge]

A meteor that size would have made quite the explosion on impact, so i doubt that is was one

 

[NewbaScuba]

according to the great and wonderful internet, that lake has a max depth of 23 feet.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

Something that big that shallow would have made a huge hole. I'm guessing ET's and the meteor story is gubmint bullcrap.

 

[FiddlerOnTheRoof]

I know this is an old thread but I live 10 minutes from that lake and have done a lot of boating on Bantam lake. I remember the news about it but nothing ever came of it...

 

[CT-Rich]

It would have made a big boom... But if it survived the atmosphere it is probably in little iron chunks. Likely being of nickle-iron it would start to corrode immediately (unless in sank into the anaerobic mud). A metal detector would probably be able to find chunks, if they exist. My guess is they are very scattered. The "whale size" would be from the bubble of plasma created by friction of vaporizing meteor and atmosphere.