farrari ,
lol yeah, that was funny,
anyway if youve been under a significant meteor or space junk re-entry, (Skylab over Fiji) Yeah there is a very loud roar from it but lets be honest the ability of a flight crew to say they were a "few kilometeres" from a re-entry object is suspect in itself. Distance is very hard to judge for unusual events like this especially at night. I once saw a rocket launch from the west coast of Yanky land and I thought it was probably within a couple hundred k's away (in fact it was 2000k away after study) I mean if your hit by a space junk re-entry your having a bad day. But I am sure it must have looked spectacular.