Daylight Fireball Over Rottnest Island Australia: Photo

May 10th 2009
Here’s an interesting fireball. This is an unidentified fireball. Meaning that it’s not clear whether this is space debris, a plane, or a meteor fireball.  It’s very cool nonetheless. This fireball was sighted and photographed by Paul Weaver after he received a call from his daughter who had been cruising in her car [...]

Mystery Fireball In Tahlequah-Cherokee County OK: Zeb Area

May 7th 10:30am PST UPDATE:
We’ve located an eyewitness to the event. They report that it was a “ball of fire in the air” and that it “moving downward” at a 45 degree angle and seemed to “slow and drop off steeply” at about a 75 degree angle during the last part of the event. The [...]

Meteorite Men! Science Channel World Premier 5/10 at 9pm

UPDATE May 11th 2009: The Meteorite Men premier was last night, did you watch it? The adventure comic theme was fabulously thought up and gave a wonderful treasure hunting feel to the show. It’s been a long time coming and meteorite enthusiasts from all over the world have been waiting for a long time for [...]

Flagstaff Fireball: Impact?

May 2nd UPDATE: After days of exhaustive research, interviews, reports and countless phone calls I believe we’re closing in on the possible fall location. We’ve received many reports via our fireball report hotline at 904-236-5394 and many people have sent us email describing their experience of this exciting event.
The reports generally suggest that this fireball [...]

Merced Meteor Fireball Update: Possible Meteorite Found 04/20/09

As of April 22nd 2009 we’re still investigating this event.
On April 20th I was contacted by a man claiming to have a possible meteorite from the Merced Fireball which happened at around 3am Dec 27th 2008. Meteorite hunters and scientists have scoured the area and compiled much data on this event, however no one has [...]

Early Morning Fireball Breaks Up Over Wise County

April 17th 2009 6:30am A Fireball streaked across the sky over Wise county Virginia.
The early morning fireball was reported to have broken into two large pieces before extinguishing. Witnesses describe the fireball breaking apart in the sky and falling somewhere near Tacoma, VA according to reports. Witnesses also claim the fireball was at a very [...]

Fireball In The Night Sky Over North Florida: Jacksonville

April 7th between 9:30 and 9:45pm (EST) Another fireball in the North Florida southern Georgia area!  Tuesday night residents from Waycross Georgia to Crescent Beach Florida experienced a rare event. A huge fireball lasting more than 5 seconds was sighted by numerous people over the area. Reports are sketchy and still coming in. REPORT THE FIREBALL
This [...]

Meteors Fireballs & Explosions Over SouthEast

Looks like we have another exciting event! Fireballs from the sky, meteors, explosions! Sonic booms and fireball sightings have been reported all over the SouthEast from Maryland to Virgina and last week Georgia had it’s own big boom too. Over Augusta Georgia at around 3 a.m. on the 20th a fireball was sighted followed by [...]

Glorieta Goddess Meteorite: ProspectingChannel.com

Great video of Robert Ward and Shauna Russel finding a huge Glorieta Siderite meteorite. Over 50 Kilos! With him on the hunt, Dave Gheesling, Greg Hupe, and Mike Farmer. VIDEO: http://prospectingchannel.com/Meteorite.html
Robert Ward’s Site: Iron From The Sky – http://www.ironfromthesky.com
Dave Gheesling’s Site: FallingRocks.com – http://www.fallingrocks.com
Mike Farmer’s Site: MeteoriteHunter.com – http://www.meteoritehunter.com
Greg Hupe’s Site: Lunarrock.com – http://www.lunarrock.com/

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Augusta Georgia Fireball: BIG BOOM! March 20th 2009

March 20th 2009: Barely a month after a meteorite fell in West, Texas, there’s been another fireball and explosion witnessed in the USA, this time in Georgia. Reports say that around 3am Friday morning residents in the Augusta Georgia area experienced a explosive event. Some witnesses describe it like this:
“…I was waken up by a [...]