Fireballs on the Rise

[Sevan Makaracı]

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There are increasing meteor reports recently all over the world. More debris from the Px tail...

ZetaTalk: Live Chat, written November 21, 2009

"When the debris from the tail of Planet X first started arriving in ernest, in 2004, the establishment chose to call this space junk. When the public became alarmed at the amount of space junk falling to Earth they tried to enhance the story by claiming that two satellites had crashed into each other, but this just made a bad story worse. Since fireballs have not gone away, but continued apace and if anything gotten worse, a new term has been used - asteroids. This is debris in the tail of Planet X, which is increasingly turning toward the Earth, hosed out from the N Pole of Planet X. This is why the wobble has gotten more violent, why electromagnetic disruption of dams and airplanes has occurred, and why blackouts will become more frequent. There will also be displays in the sky, some of which has already been noticed, from the electromagnetic tides assaulting the Earth's atmosphere. Stay tuned, more to come!"

March 3, 2012

Reports of a "bright light" and an "orange glow" were received by police across Scotland and the north of England around 9.40pm.

The Met Office tweeted: "Hi All, for anyone seeing something in the night sky, we believe it was a meteorite."

A spokesman for Strathclyde Police said the force had been "inundated" with calls about a bright object in the sky across the west of Scotland. A Durham Police spokeswoman said a number of calls came in around 9.45pm from concerned members of public who had seen a "bright light or a fire in the sky" and believed it may have been incidents involving an aircraft. "

It has been confirmed with air traffic control that there are no incidents of aircraftin difficult and nothing registered on radar," she said. "

The sightings are believed to be either an asteroid burning out or similar which has been restricted to the upper atmosphere only." Grampian Police said reports of people seeing a "flare or a bright object with a tail" were received from across the region. And Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary said numerous calls were made about a "large ball of fire in the sky" across Annandale and Eskdale.

One user wrote on the force's Facebook page: "It was awesome to see! Really big and bright!" Hundreds of people took to Twitter to report similar sightings across Scotland and the north of England. People described seeing a bright fireball moving across the sky with a large tail.

The Kielder Observatory also reported the sighting of a "huge fireball" travelling from north to south over Northumberland at 9.41pm. The Observatory posted on Twitter: "Of 30 years observing the sky #fireball best thing I have ever seen period."

LINEAR INCREASE OF FIREBALL EVENTS SINCE 2010

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What a Meteor Looks Like

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What a Large Daytime Fireball Looks Like

Chelyabinsk Fireball (2013)

[Howard]

Fireball Explodes Over Cypress (Sep 9)

A bright fireball exploded over Cyprus on Friday just before dawn.

Residents of several villages in the Troodos mountain range saw the object in the sky, heard a deafening sound and felt the earth shake for miles around after its fall, according to local newspaper Cyprus Mail.

"It wouldn't have weighed any more than a few kilos," Ioannis Fakas, the honorary chairman of the Cyprus astronomical society, told the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. "When it crossed Cyprus it exploded."

According to the specialist, it had a 45 degree tilt, and a bang could be heard as the meteorite passed over Cyprus. Meteorite fragments could have fallen into the sea to the north of Cyprus, Fakas added.

Sources

https://sputniknews.com/europe/20160909/1045143734/cyprus-meteorite...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/09/09/world/europe/ap-eu-cypru...

[Howard]

Bright Fireball Over Eastern U.S. (Sep 8)

A bright fireball streaked over the eastern U.S. Thursday evening.

The fireball was seen from New Jersey to South Carolina.

David Livingston said he was stopped at an intersection around 6 p.m. when he saw a bright light in the southwest sky.

“It was very bright and green and possibly made it all the way to the ground,” Livingston said.

Rhonda Sams also saw something she believed was a meteor.

“My husband, son, and I were looking south toward Cumberland County and Route 60. It could have actually fell in Amelia County,” Sams wrote. “Don’t know what it was but it was bright and burning.”

K. Learning said she was driving on I-95 south near the Doswell exit around 6 p.m. when she saw something bright in the sky.

“There was what looked like a ball of fire seen going at a rapid speed,” Learning said. “The direction it was seen going was southwest.”

Christy Dalton was driving on Route 288 when she reported seeing something “fall out of the sky.”

‎Brian Hobbs‎ also reported seeing the bright light.

“There was a long smoke trail left behind that dissipated very slowly,” Hobbs‎ wrote.

Sources

http://wtvr.com/2016/09/08/fireballs-meteor-spotted-over-virginia/

http://www.13newsnow.com/weather/fireball-streaks-across-the-sky-in...

http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/3320

[Howard]

Bright Fireball Over Pacific Northwest (Sep 2)

Many people throughout the Pacific Northwest reported seeing a "fireball" blazing through the sky at around midnight Friday.

According to the American Meteor Society, more than 130 people reported seeing the light shoot across the sky.

A majority of the reports came from the Willamette Valley and Oregon Coast and the object was visible from as far north as Port Angeles, Wash. to south from Medford.

Most of the reports described the fireball slow moving, bright, blue in color, debris, and long tail.

"I haven't every seen anything like this. It was a shooting fireball," a person reported from Portland.

As of Saturday, there has been no official word on what the fireball was.

Sources

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/fireball-reported-blazing-across-paci...

http://katu.com/news/local/over-130-reports-of-bright-fireball-frid...

http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/3216

https://www.facebook.com/katunews/videos/vb.180526851447/1015392892...

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2016/08/ontario-canada-fi...

30 August 2016

Ontario, Canada Fireball Meteor 29 AUG 2016

Kanata, Ontario, Canada Fireball Meteor 2255 Eastern 29AUG2016

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Initial Sighting Reports-
  August 29th, 10:55pm. While traveling on Hazeldean Road between Bells Corners and Eagleson Road in Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
  I glanced to the South and was shocked to see a huge lime colored ball of light shooting toward earth, perhaps at a 25 degree angle, traveling from East to West. As it came closer to earth, it quickly vanished. It was over within a few seconds I imagine. Frankly, I always thought these things were the color of stars. Learn something new every day. Thank you, Susan

I am quite sure we may have seen the exact same meteor! I was looking out my window last night from Grimsby, Ontario. I have a wonderful elevated view of the lake from this window and for only a second or so saw a bright bluish light streak across the sky, but only for a second. I saw lights from a nearby plane in the area (probably going into Toronto), but I was also thinking it could have been flares from another search and rescue on the lake. But there were no other lights and no glowing from a flare. To me it seemed to be traveling south to north, but I could be wrong because it was so brief, but definitely was in my northern sky. 
Glad to read I was not seeing things!- Slick Demetrius 

[M. Difato]

Second fireball in last 4 days, seen over San Diego. 

Southern California 'gets to wish upon a star' as mysterious streaks of light flash across starry night sky
-Local television captures footage of teal blue 'fireball', stopping traffic in San Diego
-National Weather Service could not confirm what it was, but astronomer says it was probably a meteor
-Earlier this month, similar flashes of light described as 'exploding stars' were seen throughout the region
-Last week was peak activity for the Perseid meteor shower

Residents of Southern California were awed by mysterious streaks of light across the starry night sky, and experts can't confirm what it is.
On Thursday, the local television station 10News posted a video shot by a camera affixed to the dashboard of a moving car in San Diego.
The clip shows what appears to be a fast-moving light teal blue 'fireball' that peters out over the horizon at around 8:30 p.m.
The National Weather Service was unable to offer up an explanation for the sighting, according to Denver7..."

https://www.facebook.com/ABC10News/videos/1200267890015691/

Sources and full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3749543/Southern-California...

[M. Difato]

Mysterious fireballs seen streaking across San Diego sky

SAN DIEGO – Numerous sightings of fireballs with streaking vapor tails were seen propagating together across the night sky shortly after 9:30 p.m. Monday.

http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/08/16/mysterious-fireballs-seen-streak...

U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Diego logged multiple incidents over metro San Diego and San Clemente Island, with additional sightings as far North as Los Angeles.

Preliminary reports suggest that the phenomenon possibly resembled characteristics of the recent Perseid meteor shower. 

According to the U.S. Navy’s 3rd Fleet Public Information Officer Lt. Holland, the USS Makin Island group is currently training in the area.  However, no “live fire” exercises were ongoing at the time of the reports.  Additionally the USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group was not present in the areas where the sightings were reported.   Lt. Holland noted that “No Navy helicopters were deployed to intercept the group of fireballs that were seen.”

The fireballs caught on dashcam video seem to propagate together at a much slower speed and lower elevation compared to where meteors are typically seen.  The mysterious fireballs were moving markedly slower than the Perseid meteors, which fall to earth at nearly 130,000 mph, but typically burn-up in the upper  atmosphere, 60 miles above the earth’s surface.

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Fireball over San Diego 8/15/16, 

Published on Aug 15, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Q2WBGpKjQ

[Howard]

Unusually Large Fireball Explodes Over Wyoming (Aug 1)

A very bright fireball exploded in the sky over Wyoming just before 3:30 a.m. and could be seen as far away as Denver according to witnesses who spoke to researchers at the Cloudbait Observatory in Guffey, Colorado.

“By combining the data from both cameras, I can determine that the fireball exploded over Cheyenne, Wyo., at a height of 105 km (roughly 65 miles),” said Chris Peterson with Cloudbait Observatory.

Peterson describes the meteor as being unusually large with a brightness similar to the full Moon and having a large breakup in mid-flight, leaving enough material to continue burning afterward.

“Usually explosions like this are terminal, completely disrupting the body and leaving nothing to continue,” said Peterson.

The American Meteor Society has so far received 17 reports of this event.

Sources

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/meteor-explodes-ove...

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/08/02/witnesses-needed-after-unusua...

http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=73620

http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/2700

[Derrick Johnson]

Panic as explosions rock Argentinian city - but relief as experts realise what to blame: a huge 1,500mph meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere!

By STEVEN FLETCHER FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 04:39 EST, 23 July 2016 | UPDATED: 08:38 EST, 23 July 2016

Residents of a city in southern Argentina got a scare when a series of powerful explosions shook homes and buildings, but the cause turned out to be a natural wonder: a meteor disintegrating overhead.

It was an ordinary Wednesday afternoon in General Roca, a city of 85,000 people, when suddenly a series of loud blasts caused buildings to shake and windows to rattle.

"Everything trembled," said Martin Soria, the local mayor.

Police, firefighters and emergency workers rushed to the scene, but found no evidence of a bomb, earthquake or calamity.

Finally, scientists pieced together the reason: A meteor had entered the Earth's atmosphere some 10,000 metres (33,000 feet) overhead, traveling at 1,500 miles per hour.

"It took everyone by surprise because it entered the atmosphere over an inhabited area. If it had fallen over the desert, the sea, Antarctica, we would never have known," said astronomer Roberto Figueroa, head of the nearby Neuquen observatory.

He estimated Wednesday's meteor measured about 12 metres in diameter before breaking into three fragments.

"It was likely a mineral meteor that entered the atmosphere at high speed at a very close angle to the Earth. As soon as it contacted the (atmospheric) gases, it heated up, the stone dilated, broke apart and fell as ash," he said.

"Some of the larger pieces may have reached the lower layers of the atmosphere and burned up there. Since they arrived at tremendous speed, they produced an expansive wave that could be heard as a boom."

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3704533/Panic-explosions-ro...

[Howard]

Bright Fireball Over Nova Scotia (Jun 23)

Numerous people reported a bright light in the skies over Nova Scotia just before 10 p.m. on Thursday.

“I looked out my window, and there was this huge meteor going across the sky. It was the biggest one I’d ever seen,” said West Chezzetcook resident Scott Wolfe.

He spotted it around 9:30 p.m. and raced from one window to another to get the best view.

“We got a great panoramic-type view (of it) across the Chezzetcook Harbour,” he said.

“It definitely stuck around a while. I saw it for 10 or 15 seconds across the sky.”

He said it was a sight to see.

“There were pieces falling behind the thing. They would break off and stay bright in the air,” he said.

“It was pretty cool . . . I’d never really seen anything like it.”

Sources

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/fireball-meteor-halifax-n...

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1375157-bright-meteor-races...

[Howard]

Large Fireball Over Northeastern U.S. & Canada (Jun 14)

AMS has received over 150 reports of a large fireball over the northeastern U.S. and Canada.

Witness accounts:

"I am 60 years old and I walk a lot at night so have seen my fair share of meteors. This one lasted longer than any other I have seen and so we were able to see more detail than usual."

"I was with a companion, and both of us expressed moments of wondering if an airplane or satellite were going down, since this was quite a large and bright object."

Reports were received from NH, NY, PA, Ontario, VT, MA, ME, Québec, NJ, MD and RI.

Sources

http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/2083

https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/4o4z1x/odd_question_did_...