Meteor Fireball
There’s been yet another fireball, this time in California. According to SpaceWeather.com here’s and excerpt from the report they’ve written up along with some eye witness accounts.
“…I was looking up over our house and what I saw was the most beautiful ball of light I have ever seen!!!! As it came over my house I saw the ball of light get more of a trail behind it. Then it got brighter and looked like it strated to get bigger, then it blew outwords into a perfect big green circle that formed around the ball. I then saw the green circle flash a couple quick flashes of green/blue light then it looked like the fireball blew gold and white flashes behind it and disappeared! I was so surprised from what I had just seen that I stood outside for a couple of minutes to see if maybe what I had just saw was some kind of missile or flare. Then I heard about 50secs or so later a loud distant boom and a slight rumble like a thunder clap!…” SOURCE: SpaceWeather.com
I’ve searched all over the web and haven’t found much more info about this fireball yet but if it’s as big and this woman describes and she heard the sonic boom, there might just be some pieces on the ground. It could very likely be just another fireball in the sky with no impact.
Smaller meteors tend to burn up in the atmosphere around 10 to 20 miles altitude and disappear or “burn out” leaving no trace. It’s rare for a meteorite impact to occur. This is an extra special event to the people who witnessed it, especially considering its intensity. Maybe this one reached the ground. So far I don’t see any on any of the news sites other than SpaceWeather.com. I’ll keep looking for reports on this fireball.
If you hear anything on this I’d like to hear about it…
