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Meteor Fireball In Sweden – Video

January 18, 2009 By Eric 1 Comment

Meteor Fireball In Sweden

Meteor Fireball In Sweden

The Swedish are lucky people as they are witness to one of the most beautiful natural phenomena the natural world has known. A huge fireball streaked across the southwestern skies of Sweden early Saturday evening. Gothenburg (or Göteborg) SOS and air rescue service was inundated with reports of a fireball in the sky around 8pm Saturday Jan 17th.

Meteors typically burn up upon entry into Earth’s atmosphere, and there a chance this might be debris from a satellite. Either way you look at it it is certainly a spectacular event. The light show was fabulously bright and displayed an array of colors from bright blue streaks, a big blue-white flash, and a gorgeous red-orange and yellow tail.

“The Local” Sweden News in English here: http://www.thelocal.se/16990/20090118/

A great video (low resolution) can be found here: http://nachrichten.t-online.de/c/17/40/62/72/17406272.html

All in all a pretty cool event. Anyone witnesses of this fireball should fill out our Fireball

UPDATE: Someone posted this video on YouTube.com

Report here: Report A Fireball

Photo Credit: http://nachrichten.t-online.de/c/17/40/62/72/17406272.html

SpaceWeather.com Report: Scandinavian Fireball Sightings

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