Meteor Fireball In Sweden – Video

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

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