RS> And as ALWAYS, you are lying through your teeth. I *ADMITTED* it
 was a RS> vivid dream.

-> After one of the Holy Smoke moonbats (Curtis Johnson?) backed you
-> into a corner about it, yes.  But in the effort to bolster your lie,
-> you posted a picture of the vivid dream - a picture of an object that
-> looked amazingly like a potato.

CJ> Let me get this straight:  it was "about the size of my fist"
CJ> yet you heard it splash four miles away?  Possible--if it was
CJ> a very quiet night.
. . .

CJ> Sorry, this part of your account is not making me less skeptical.
CJ> Even if the meteorite were incadesencent upon landing in
CJ> the lake, it was in there while it took you to reach it from four
CJ> miles away:  IOW, a fist-sized object cooling off in unlimited water
CJ> for the better part of an hour.   And it was still glowing
CJ> underwater after you managed to reach it from four miles away????

That was in March 2002.

 RS> I've been thinking and re-thinking the story, and have finally
 RS> realized that the original story I told is no doubt simply a
 RS> vivid dream I had about how I found it.

 RS> The fact is I've had the meteorite so long, (over 30 years,) I
 RS> simply forgot where and how I got it.

 RS> I could show you what it looks like, all I'd have to do is
 RS> stick it into my scanner.

That was Sauer's admission in AUGUST 2002.  It took him FIVE MONTHS to
re-think an obviously absurd story.

And it is a good thing it was glowing!  It was night, and he might not
have SEEN it otherwise!

"A number of years ago during one of the big meteor showers, I was
watching it down by Lake Michigan, (I live about 4 miles from the
shore,) and the people with me and I saw a really bright one, and one
said, "It looks like it's going to make it all the way down!"

Somewhere south of us, along the shore we heard a loud splash out in the
lake.  So a whole bunch of us were looking in the lake water, (even
though it was nighttime,) hoping to find it.

I did, due to it still glowing.
Of course, I let it cool off before picking it up.

I ended up with one doozy of a cold, (even though it was summer, the
lake water was ice cold,) but I got a meteorite!

It's a stoney one, black, with holes and pits all over it.
And one area with some odd greenish crystallization on it.

It's about the size of my fist.
When I get my scanner working again, I'll try to scan it, or a picture
of it, and send the scan to you if you want."

And when good old Karl jumped in to suggest that it might have been a
"geode," Sauer said it wasn't because he had ONE OF THEM TOO.

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