{"id":22929,"date":"2023-05-02T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T02:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/?p=22929"},"modified":"2023-05-05T23:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T06:47:21","slug":"meteorite-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2023\/05\/02\/meteorite-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Turned Meteorite Hunter Searches For Space Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARABNORMAL NEWS &#8212; A meteorite that landed in Maine last month could be worth big money with a $25,000 reward for whoever can collect a fragment of the space rock.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses reported a very bright fireball with a glowing tail streaking across the sky in the middle of the day on April 8th. NASA pinpointed the area of Washington County where they believe the debris ended up.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mainemineralmuseum\/posts\/pfbid02UTY5psyD7DqcSBV5KG667VquVPdVJHm2fbTZKDq12aHWc7yYxSF5xAFc9oXW7vgJl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maine Mineral &amp; Gem Museum<\/a> posted on Facebook on April 12th that they were offering the reward for the first 1kg specimen submitted to them that turned out to be from the meteor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m crazy enough to think &#8216;man I could probably find that meteorite&#8217;. Yeah I know it&#8217;s 700 miles away, but what the heck,&#8221; Tyler Transue of <a href=\"https:\/\/docsidemedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doc Side Media<\/a> told Parabnormal News.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of finding a meteorite might be akin to finding a needle in a haystack.<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn&#8217;t going to stop Transue.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker turned amateur meteorite hunter made a 3,000 mile journey from Pennsylvania to Maine and back in hopes of cashing in.<\/p>\n<p>During his second day on the ground, a magnet hit something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I found a rock, took the magnet to it and sure enough, I&#8217;m like &#8216;holy cow&#8217;,&#8221; said Transue.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24057 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tyler-rock-1.jpg?resize=640%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tyler-rock-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C577&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tyler-rock-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tyler-rock-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tyler-rock-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C865&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tyler-rock-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1153&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tyler-rock-1-scaled.jpg?resize=355%2C200&amp;ssl=1 355w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tyler-rock-1-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C338&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tyler-rock-1-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tyler-rock-1-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then the waiting game began. Rather than send the museum a chunk of the object, he wanted to deliver it to them personally.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just spoke to the fine folks at Maine Gem and Mineral Museum (i.e. org offering $25k for a piece of the meteorite that landed April 8th near Waite, ME) and they want pics, info, and GPS coordinates to analyze and then send me a packet for further testing \ud83d\udd25\ud83e\udd1e <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/meteorite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#meteorite<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/maine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#maine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZUwy5X3g1x\">pic.twitter.com\/ZUwy5X3g1x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Doc Side Media (@docsidemedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/docsidemedia\/status\/1648103138967126019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After handing it off, there was more waiting while testing of the chemical composition was done.<\/p>\n<p>Finally on April 29th, the results came.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looks like your boy found a piece of slag,&#8221; Transue told us.<\/p>\n<p>But Tyler still finds himself lucky to have been close enough to hit pay dirt.<\/p>\n<p>The American Meteor Society took several reports of the fireball.\u00a0It&#8217;s believed to be a bolide, which are recorded about once a year, but they don&#8217;t always survive in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meteorite that landed in Maine last month could be worth big money. 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