Oooooh indeed. You was wrong, the sky ain't falling - the universe is!
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!

The title of this link is a bit far fetched in all honesty, very very cool though 
that's no mysterious object, that's Z3 speeding to work.
Rendezvous with Rama" one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, started exactly like this.
Maude_Lynne
Oooooh!