[Utah-astronomy] Boom and Bust

This morning Brent Watson, Kim Hyatt, and I flew out to the Wells, Nevada Airport in Brent's Cessna with hopes of catching a glimpse of the Genesis re-entry. At the appointed time we scanned the northwest horizon looking for the approach of Genesis...nothing. We looked overhead, to the west, southwest, and south. Absolutely no visual sign of the re-entry. As we were about to give up hope, we did hear a sonic boom towards the southwest, but no indication of fireball or smoke-train. After a moment, we called Patrick Wiggins and found out that the capsule had crash landed without deploying its chute near Granite Peak. We can only hope there is some data they can retrieve from the samples despite the impact. Dave Bennett