Large Fireball Blazes Across Northern Ohio Skies (June 14) -

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/science_tech/ufo-large-meteor-shoots-a...

A meteor streaking across the Ohio skies put on quite a show for a few brief seconds Thursday evening.

Reports began coming in just after 10 p.m. on Thursday of a bright object streaking across the sky at about 9:55 p.m.

"It was an incredible sight. It came from the south, streaked over head quickly and then within a second disappeared over Lake Erie," Kathy from Willoughby Hills, Ohio said. She described the sight as a bright white ball with a long, green tail.

Steven from Wooster, Ohio saw it too. He said he also saw "2 or 3 pieces that came off bottom and were traveling at a slower velocity."

The shooting star was observed across portions of Ohio, Southern Ontario, Western Pennsylvania, Ohio & West Virginia.

Steven in Toronto, comments, "Never seen anything like it before. There was a main body of white streaking across the sky, (and) smaller objects near it."

"Just saw a glow over the lake, green blue in colour. (It) looked like a firework at first but we realized it wasn't." said K.J. from Sarnia, Ontario.

Margaret from Perry, Ohio exclaims, "I have seen a few fireballs in my life. Never one that was green. So cool. looked like green sparks coming off initial fireball. Fireball faded with no flash. Glowing green and white that faded to white."

The sight was also seen in Circleville, near Columbus, Ohio.

"It was going horizontal all white, then it exploded in a red- orange It was white glowing trail," said Lloyd Poling.

Perhaps the same meteor observed in Ohio...

Fireball Seen Across US and Southern Canada (June 14) -

http://www.680news.com/news/local/article/373538--many-spot-meteor-...

The night sky lit up with what appears to be a meteor, Thursday.

But it wasn't just a sight for local (Toronto) eyes, the meteor could be seen in Michigan, Chicago, Ottawa, Huntsville and as far as Nevada and Florida.

"I was driving north on 9th Line near Stouffville and I was shocked by a very bright blue/green light that, at first, seemed like it was coming in my direction. I instinctively hit the breaks and then I realized that it was a meteor. It carried on lasting for about 5 seconds and faded out but it was very intense," he explained.

Bright Fireball Streaks Across Eastern U.S. Sky (August 23) -

http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2012/08/nj_co...

Early Thursday morning Jason Sarabia saw a bright meteor shoot across the sky.

The Frenchtown resident and his wife, Maria, were driving to the Clinton park-and-ride lot shortly before 6 a.m. when, after passing the Clinton A&P supermarket, he saw a green-tinged white ball of light burst across the sky in an easterly direction.

The flash, which lasted between four and six seconds, was as bright as a full moon, he said.

"If you were outside, you were going to see this," he said.

Sarabia wasn't alone. Witnesses as far north as New Hampshire and as far south as Delaware said they saw the fireball, a brighter-than-usual meteor, according to logs on American Meteor Society and Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News.

"I didn't see anything falling off of it or smoke," Sarabia said, adding that it was three times larger than the North Star.

See also -

Meteor Crashed in Tarapaca, Chile (July 12)

COLORADO: Fireball Grounds Firefighting Planes (June 21)

Exploding meteor creates sonic boom over Wales

A meteor has exploded above Wales causing a sonic boom which shook windows and set off car alarms.

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Another undiscovered asteroid zoomed past Earth yesterday (Sept 14).

Notable quote: “Near-Earth objects have been whizzing past us lately, undetected until they have been practically on top of us,” said Bob Berman, Slooh commentator and Astronomy Magazine writer.

"A newly found asteroid (2012 QG42) will zip past Earth tonight at a distance of 2.85 million km (1.7 million miles).. closest approach is on September 14 at 05:08 UT (1:08 am EDT).  This asteroid is between 190 to 430 meters (625 feet to 1,400 feet) wide and was first spotted by astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona on August 26."

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Fireball Blazes Across U.K Skies (Oct 12) -

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Amateur-stargazer-spots-meteor-...

Nigel Booth spotted what he believes was a meteor burning up over Grantham last night.

Nigel and his wife Debbie, of East Street, saw the round orange and blue light moving across the sky for almost three minutes - before it disappeared.

Nigel told granthampeople: "The sky was really clear so we went for a walk along our street, which doesn't have lights, shortly after 9.30pm.

"We were facing north and saw a largish, slow-moving, orange and blue coloured light at about a 60 degree angle from the earth.

"We watched if for between two and three minutes moving across the sky from the west to east, and then it faded out.

"It was really easy to see with the naked eye.

"It wasn't a comet, as it didn't have a tail, and it's unlikely to have been a satellite falling to earth or it would be all over the national news.

"I reckon it was a meteor."

Nigel, who has been an amateur astronomer for more than 30 years, has seen meteors before - but they were only brief sightings and 'very high' in the night sky.

See also: Fireball Seen Across UK and Scotland (Sep 22)

Another Asteroid Buzzes Past Earth Shortly After Its Discovery (Oct 12) -

Discovered on Oct 4, 2012,  Asteroid TC4, about the size of a house, buzzed Earth at one-fourth the distance to the moon last night.  Only 56 feet wide, it passed at a range of 59,000 miles.

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Fireball Reported Over Washington DC Area (Oct 16) -

Several witnesses report seeing a fireball streak across the sky in the Washington, D.C. region.

“I was walking to Alliance Francaise from the Zoo metro stop around 7 p.m. last night, and I saw a white light in the sky zip past overhead, and then go out with a small boom while still traversing the sky,”

“Saw a VERY large shooting star around 7:15 p.m. near Centreville High School looking northeast.. not one of your average ones either, it was orangish red in color and lasted a bit more than your average blink of an eye shooting star..”

Marth Widra out of Glen Burnie, Md says she saw “an object that had a reddish fire-like ball with a yellow/orange tail.”

Keith Cross in Hughesville, Md. says it had “almost exactly the look of a very large firework but was moving incredibly fast and completely silent till it burnt out”. Cross added: “it was the brightest object I’ve ever seen flying across the sky”

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Oct. 17th, 2012

BAY AREA FIREBALL: Last night, Oct. 17th, many people near San Francisco saw a slow-moving fireball exploding in the sky around 07:45 pm PDT. Witnesses report bright flashes of light and sonic booms that shook houses. Using a wide-field camera, Wes Jones caught the meteor disappearing behind the trees in the city of Belmont

"We don't know yet if the end point [of the meteor's flight] was over land or water," says meteor expert Peter Jenniskens of the NASA Ames Research Center. Jenniskens operates a network of Cameras for All-sky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) near the Bay Area. "Data from the CAMS system should give us an answer [about landfall]. We're analyzing the data now." Stay tuned.

Note: Although Earth is nearing a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, source of the Orionid meteor shower, this fireball was probably not an Orionid. The timing and direction of the meteor do not seem to match the Orionids.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Videos of San francisco fireball which Jorge posted above;

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct/17/bright-fireball-startles...

The American Meteor Society (AMS) reports online that a meteor arced through the sky shortly after 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, causing surprise and awe across broad reaches of Northern California. The "fireball" was visible only briefly, but was so bright that it was easily seen from light-polluted cities, as well as rural areas.

The AMS maintains on online bulletin board where people can report what they've seen in the sky. Here is a sample of comments made Wednesday evening:

Michelle Penick of San Pablo: "The colors were blue and white. It was so bright that the homes and trees were lit up. After the flashing, it began to break up. It was close enough I was able to see it breaking up and burning a fiery red."

Max Wilson of Sonoma: "I was looking at the ground, when there was what seemed to be a prolonged flash from a camera. (One of those very bright, professional ones.) I looked up to the sky to see a bright light, which kept getting brighte rand brighter. I realized it was moving, but didn't seem to going all that fast. before I knew it, it had travelled across the entire sky, with a trail that must have been (at least) 100 miles long."

Aguilar De of San Jose: "I've never witnessed anything so spectacular in m y life! The fragmentation was bright red, and broke apart into 8 or 9 distinct pieces that seemed to rain downward. The train was a very bright yellow/white streak, that continued to glow even after the meteor broke apart."

Derek Trusedale of San Jose: "I was walking the other way on a city street with street lights. The fireball was bright enough that it made me turn around to see what was causing the flash behind me. It looked like someone had sent off a nearby horizontal bottle rocket. no boom. very pretty. I suspect I'll never see anything like that again in my life."

Meteor Drops Near Western Washington (Oct 31) -

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Meteors-spotted-falling-from-sky-in...

Snohomish County Sheriff's deputies investigated reports of a possible meteor falling somewhere near I-5 and Exit 212, between Stanwood and Arlington. K-9 officers also responded, but they didn't find anything.

An Arlington police officer confirmed seeing something fall from the sky, and KING 5 reports a number of viewers also emailed from Gig Harbor and Burien reporting they saw the meteor as well.

The Federal Aviation Administration said they also fielded calls from people who reported they saw a meteor.

An Arlington police officer confirmed seeing something fall from the sky. Viewers also emailed KING 5 News from Gig Harbor and Burien saying they also saw it.

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Large Daytime Fireball Observed Over UK Skies (Nov 9) -

The burning object was seen in the afternoon skies for 5 minutes, fragmenting while falling to earth, leaving two sisters to wonder whether they had just witnessed a plane crash.

Eleanor, a student at Hylands School, said: "I haven't seen anything like that before – it was so bright."

She spotted the object – with a distinctive fiery core and long, forked tail – as she got ready for her after-school paper-round.

"I was just taking my trolley from the garage when I caught sight of it," said Eleanor.

"At first I thought it was a plane but it got brighter and brighter.

"I shouted for my sister and then we called our dad, who told us to take a picture."

The fireball – thought to be caused by debris burning up in the earth's atmosphere – spent five minutes visible in the Chelmsford sky before it disappeared behind some houses.

"I'm not sure what it was but it was bright and it definitely looked like it was burning," added Eleanor, who used a normal ten-megapixel camera to capture the images.

The event stunned the family so much that Eleanor's mother, Martine, called the police to ask if anyone else in Essex had seen a burning meteor.

"I just can't believe Eleanor and Leanne were the only two people to see it," she said.

A series of pictures were taken by Eleanor Collop, 13, and her 17-year-old sister Leanne, after they spotted the fireball from outside their home on the Beechenlea Estate.  The only picture made available to the public, however, is the following image of a fragment that detached from the large fireball.

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Fireball Streaks Across Texas Skies (Dec 7) -
KHOU 11 News viewer Mary Bush, in the Houston area, took this photo about two minutes after the flash.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Strange-sight--182532251.html

From McKinney to the White Rock Lake area and all the way south to Houston, a bright flash reported in the sky Friday morning captured the attention of many across the Lone Star State.

One McKinney woman reported seeing what appeared to be a comet streaking across the sky in a bright flash around 6:42 a.m. near Stonebridge Shopping Center.

Justin Wagoner, who lives in the White Rock Lake area, said he saw a green trail and heard a large "sonic boom" around the same time. Others reported seeing white and orange colors. The sight only lasted a few seconds before vanishing in the sky.

According to Dr. James Roberts, a University of North Texas astronomer who talked to WBAP,  the mysterious object in the sky was likely a burned up meteor.

Mike Hankey, the operations manager with the American Meteor Society, said the flash was actually a fireball meteor, which is a meteor brighter than the norm.

The organization is comprised of amateur and professional astronomers focused focused specifically on meteor astronomy.

"For those not familiar with meteors and fireballs, a fireball is a meteor that is larger than normal. Most meteors are only the size of small pebbles," read  a report on the American Meteor Society's online site. "A meteor the size of a softball can produce light equivalent to the full moon for a short instant. The reason for this is the extreme velocity at which these objects strike the atmosphere."

Fireball Observed Over Queensland Australia (Nov 26) -
The suspicious cloud of smoke which appeared in the sky on Monday is said to have been a meteorite. Plenty of locals witnessed the event.

http://www.cqnews.com.au/news/it-wasnt-a-bird-plane-or-superman/163...

A LOUD boom followed by a cloud of smoke in the sky had many Central Highlands residents taking a closer look on Monday.

Many residents speculated the theory behind the mysterious object was a meteorite heading for Earth at the speed of sound and disintegrating on entry.

A spokesman from the Bureau of Meteorology said that theory was most likely the correct explanation.

"We had a call from an Emerald resident at about 7pm (Monday night), wanting to know what it was," the spokesman said.

"It could have been a meteorite... or it may have been a bit of space debris."

If it was a meteorite, it could have been about 20,000 feet high, and the sound residents heard would have been a shockwave.

"If they come low enough they can cause a sonic boom as they enter the atmosphere lower down," the spokesman said.

"Not very loud, but distinctive … if they come into the troposphere - which is the lower atmosphere - when they lose velocity, you might hear a series of booms."

He said once it hit Earth, it would have been about the size of a small pebble and where it hit would be hard to determine.

"Depending on the direction it was coming through, it could have landed 100km (from where it was seen)," the spokesman said.

NASA: Friday’s fireball was a ‘probable’ meteorite
Friday, December 7, 2012

In an advisory just issued by NASA, scientists say the very bright fireball spotted by many people in Texas on Friday morning was a meteor, and is now most likely a meteorite.

And they’re interested in recovering it.

Here’s the official word from Bill Cooke, with Marshall Spaceflight Center’s Meteoroid Environments Office:

This morning at 6:43 AM Central Standard Time, eyewitnesses across Texas and adjacent states saw a very bright fireball streaking across the sky, moving roughly east to west. It was also recorded by a NASA meteor camera in Mayhill, New Mexico some five hundred miles to the West, which is very unusual and testifies to the brightness of the event.

This was not the re-entry of Kosmos 2251, which was destroyed in a collision with an Iridium satellite in February 2009; it is a meteor and not associated with the Geminid meteor shower.

Preliminary results indicate that there are meteorites from this meteor on the ground north of Houston, Texas – analysis is currently underway to refine the impact area. if pieces are recovered, it will be the 13th meteorite fall recorded in the state since 1909, and the first since Ash Creek, which fell in February of 2009.

video above, the moon is the bright object at lower center; the fireball is on the horizon at left and is surround by a white box when the camera detects it. Up is north, and left is east in the video.

http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/12/nasa-fridays-fireball-was-a-pr...

Mysterious Fireball, Crash and Explosion in Sweden (Dec 11) -

Frightened residents in western Sweden reported seeing a bright, blue light racing across the night sky on Tuesday before an orange-coloured orb smashed into the ground in a mysterious phenomenon that has yet to be explained.

"It lit up the sky and flew over us, then we heard an explosion," witness Jessica Berg told the Aftonbladet newspaper.

"It was very weird. Uncomfortably weird."

Another witness, 24-year-old Sandra, thought the light may have been due to fireworks, but began to wonder when she never heard an accompanying pop.

"Then I thought it was a comet because it looked a little like an orb. It was red with a yellow sheen that surrounded and followed it," she told the paper.

"It looked like something was falling from the sky like in a film, like Armageddon or something.

"I've never seen anything like it."

Aviation authorities were quick to rule out initial theories that a plane had crashed somewhere deep in the forests of Värmland County.

They, as well as police, suspect the mysterious night light and thunderous blast that prompted a flood of calls from concerned residents may have been caused by a meteorite.

The first calls to emergency service SOS came around 10.25pm from Forshaga, a town about 25 kilometres north of Karlstad.

More calls came from Stöllet, Ekshärad and Karlstad, and on Facebook, police in Sunne reported a rumbling reminiscent of an earthquake.

"And we've also received information that people on the west coast and even in Finland made observations," Svensson told TT.

Neither police or other authorities have plans to investigate the strange sound and light phenomena.

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The following event is extremely rare for N.turkey zone;

METEOR HITS TURKISH CITY ORDU (DEC 13)

Meteorite has fallen on the territory of Turkish city Ordu. According to Turkish media, the fall of the meteorite last night caused panic among the city's population. Ordu Mayor Orhan Duzgun said that he learned the fall of the meteorite only in the morning. "The fall of the meteorite was captured by an observation camera of one of the institutions of the city. Now its place is being specified.

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Bright fireball lights up night sky over Texas and Oklahoma (Dec 23)

Witness Reports:
23 December 2012 - Shelly Boykin. Kyle, Texas @ 1:00:00

    5 seconds duration? Moved from my right to left, while driving NORTH. Mostly white color, some orange. No sound, brighter than the moon. Larger than a usual shooting star.

23 December 2012 - Kelley. Robert Lee, Texas, USA @ 1:00:00

    10-15 seconds duration - I am in Robert Lee, Texas. I was looking towards the East. The meteor looked like it entered atmosphere then left atmosphere. From where I was it looked to be moving from North to South. Very bright flash of blue light, followed by a trail of lingering light that was still blue-colored, but not as bright. Not as bright as the sun but very bright, brighter than moon. I did not see any fragments falling off. It happened too fast to get a photo.

23 December 2012 - R. Griffin. Corpus Christi, Texas, USA @ 00:58 CST

    2 seconds duration. North-Northwest to West-Northwest, from right to left. 35 degrees up. Orange-red color. Bright as the moon. There was a bright, then an orange-red trail.

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'Mega ice meteor' impacts field in Morocco (Dec 26)

A Moroccan farmer got the shock of his life when a giant snowball fell to earth leaving a half metre hole in his land. The farmer from the Hrira region split the ice and put it in his fridge to prevent it melting. Local authorities then sent a team of scientists who confirmed that it was in fact a 'mega meteor' from space.

Bright Fireball and Loud Booms Witnessed Across Inland Pacific Northwest (Jan 11)

http://www.krem.com/news/local/Mysterious-light-seen-streaking-acro...

http://www.khq.com/story/20562952/what-was-that-bright-light-in-the...

"I heard a boom. My driveway lit up. It was so bright and I thought is was a car coming up the driveway. I looked up in the sky to the west side of my driveway and saw the shooting star. It was very bright and fell from the sky like a flare gun would. It was a very bright. Vanished as it fell from the sky. Crazy! I went inside and told my daughter Ashlee."

"I heard a loud boom here in the valley. Sounded like when power boxes explode only louder. Ben Howard Up in North Spokane, I saw the sky light up and watched a shooting star like object fall from the sky. 5 minutes later I heard a rumble/expansion."

"I went outside at 6:25 this morning to warm up my vehicle when I saw a flash of light. I look up at the sky and see what appears to be a shooting star only 10 times the size. I saw it through the haze of the sky. It had a tail on it as well. Any idea what it is?"

"What just happened? I saw a huge green glowing ball fly across the sky oveR my house on North Five Mile going NW to SE at around 6:25...about 2 minutes later I heard a loud explosion sound in the direction of the valley??????"

"I witnessed the bright flash at 0620hrs Friday morning from my back yard at Fairchild AFB. It was a meteor entering the atmosphere. I noticed the bright flash and looked up to see the meteor traveling southeast. The flash was from the meteor breaking apart. The explosion heard was the sonic boom from the high speed it was traveling at and impacting the thick atmosphere due to pressure and friction. Based on a rough count, the sonic boom followed roughly 30 seconds after seeing the flash. From my perspective, it did not impact the ground and exploded in the air. The entire visible flash lasted roughly 6 seconds."

"I was shoveling snow at 6:25 at my house on the south hill. All of the sudden everything lit up around me. I looked up and saw what appeared to be a meteor falling and breaking up. It was straight up in the southern horizon and appeared to be falling to the south. It was bright, slightly blue-green and appeared to break up in three sections. It streamed towards the ground like fireworks and faded in about 2-3 seconds. I started shoveling again and heard one of the loudest thunder sounds that I've ever heard about 30 seconds later. It was quite spectacular. I have never seen anything like it. Wondering about what I saw and thinking that maybe I saw a flare or falling plane, I decided to call crime check and report what I saw around 6:30 a.m. After that, I did a little research on the Internet and learned that there are plenty of similar falling meteor reports documented on line. In many cases, people report thunder or a loud boom about 30 seconds after seeing the light."

Fireball Blazes Across Nevada/California Skies (Jan 17)

A fireball spotted across a wide swath of the West from Reno to San Francisco might have broken up over the Pacific Ocean, experts said Friday.

The American Meteor Society based in New York said it had received reports from about 50 people in California and Nevada who saw the brilliant streak of light at 5:21 a.m. Thursday, spokesman Robert Lunsford said.

Lunsford said most of the reports came from the San Francisco Bay Area, but the fireball also was seen around Reno, and in San Diego and Redding, Calif. Most people described seeing an intense flash of blue or white light.

"It looks like it was heading from east to west, so it may have made it into the ocean," Lunsford told The Associated Press. "Most of the people who saw it were heading off to work in the dark, and say it lit up the ground like it was almost daylight."

Ronald Normandin was driving to work in Vacaville, Calif., when the fireball lit up the inside of his car.

"It looked like it was real close. It had a long streak of light, and the front part appeared to be huge and a squarish shape," he said.

Marnie Mattice, of Reno, said she was jogging with a friend when she saw the meteor light up the sky "kind of like lightning," then appear like "a very bright signal flare" in the distance.

"It wasn't symmetrical like a star, but more of an irregular circle. As it burned out, it left a trail and what appeared to be smaller glowing particles. It lasted long enough that we could stand and watch it burn out completely," she said.

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http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/breaking-news/x10552768...

Bright Fireball Captured Over Kanto Japan (Jan 20)

At minute 0:31

Fireball Lights up Night Sky North of Philadelphia Pennsylvania (Jan 21)

Just before midnight on Monday, a bright flash occurred, lighting up the entire sky.

"It was a bright fireball," said Thomas Cupillari, director of the Thomas G. Cupillari '60 Observatory at Keystone College.

The all sky camera at the observatory caught footage of the fireball.

"This fireball was so bright it lit up the entire sky around it.  It's very unusual for them to be so bright and last that long."

The camera is in a network with Sandia National Laboratory through New Mexico State University. They are set up at various locations so common events that overlap can be tracked.

"Regular meteors can be seen on clear nights and sometimes you can see several in one night, but fireballs aren't very common," Cupillari said. "One night our camera picked up 32 meteors and none of them were fireballs."

He added that when virtually all meteors are captured, the sky is black, but the one on Monday night lit up the sky.

Source

http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130124/NEWS/130129879/100...

Dozens Report "Fireball" Streak Across the Sky Sunday Night

Lynchburg, VA - Dozens of viewers, nearing over 100 as of Sunday Night, report seeing a very bright "fireball" streak across the night sky.

Witnesses report a vivid tail of fire-like red particles extending from the fireball.

The fireball was likely a large, or close meteor. These events are more common than many people think.

Debris from space enter Earth's atmosphere all of the time and burn up in our sky as meteors. Occasionally, a meteor will be vivid or large enough to be described as a "fireball".

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Map and fireball reports

Fireball Explodes Over Russia Injuring 1200, Thousands of Buildings Damaged (Feb 15)

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/meteorite-crash-in-russia-...

By Sevan Makaracı

Fireball Over UK (Feb 6)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279992/The-mystery-Somerse...

Courtesy of KM

Fireball Over Cuba (Feb 15)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-02/16/c_132171646.htm

Courtesy of Sevan Makaracı

Fireball Over Northern California (Feb 15)

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/fireball-lights-northern-california-skies-...

Courtesy of Saanvi

Fire in the sky: Ball of light flashes over South Florida

 A ball of light in the sky resembling a meteor was reported Sunday night by several people in Miami-Dade and Broward counties..

“Looking over the Biscayne Bay from downtown, I saw an object falling from the sky,” said Brad Greenberg, 30, of Miami in a tweet about 6:30 p.m. “At first, the object was faintly glowing and moving fast but not nearly as fast as a shooting star.”

He said the object burned bright, as though a fuse reached an explosive, and then it was gone.

“The whole thing last maybe three seconds,” he said.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office reported receiving several calls claiming there were “lights in the sky.”

Jeff Kleinman, day editor of The Miami Herald, was with his daughter at the Aventura Mall when she pointed out a flash in the sky.   Source

Meteor / Fireball Watch

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2143578/pg1

we've had quite a few in the last few days.

Feb. 14, 2013 - Japan

Feb. 15, 2013 - Chelyabinsk, Russia

Feb. 16, 2013 - Cuba

"HAVANA (AP) — Cuba apparently experienced a phenomenon similar to but smaller than the meteorite that detonated over Russia this week, island media reported, with startled residents describing a bright light in the sky and a loud explosion that shook windows and walls"

Feb. 16, 2013 - San Fransisco

"A meteor was spotted in the United States, hurtling 17k miles above Earth. People in the Bay Area saw a fireball flying across the sky last night around 7:45 p.m. local time. Check out video of the meteor flying over San Francisco, California!"

Feb. 17, 2013 - Miami

Apparently 2 in Florida

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Feb. 17, 2013 - Springdale, Arkansas (unconfirmed)

http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.com/

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Feb. 18, 2013 - Arizona (unconfirmed)

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Worldwide meteor news

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/

it is already causing wild speculation, like this poster in other thread:

"Are we losing our protective atmosphere?"
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2143589/pg1

also NASA has released a statement on recent meteor activity increase

NASA Statement on Fireballs:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/22feb_feb...

"This month, some big space rocks have been hitting Earth's atmosphere," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "There have been five or six notable fireballs that might have dropped meteorites around the United States."

It’s not the number of fireballs that has researchers puzzled. Instead, it's the appearance and trajectory of the fireballs that sets them apart.

"These fireballs are particularly slow and penetrating," explains meteor expert Peter Brown, a physics professor at the University of Western Ontario. "They hit the top of the atmosphere moving slower than 15 km/s, decelerate rapidly, and make it to within 50 km of Earth’s surface."

What is the explanation for this? NASA doesnt offer one.

If these pieces of space rock are coming from PX's tail, i guess they would be slower (shorter distance to travel, less attraction force and thus less inertia buildup) and with less distance than normal meteors from Asteroid belt, they would indeed be "particularly penetrating".

Zetas right again! Heed their warning!

Infrasonic waves from the Russian meteor were the largest ever recorded by the Comprehensive Nuclear‑Test‑Ban Treaty Organization's (CTBTO)  International Monitoring System.  Infrasound has been used as part of the CTBTO's tools to detect atomic blasts since April 2001.

The blast was detected by 17 infrasound stations in the CTBTO's network, which tracks atomic blasts across the planet. The furthest station to record the sub-audible sound was 15,000km away in Antarctica.

17 infrasound stations in the CTBTO’s network detected the infrasonic waves from the meteor that broke up over Russia’s Ural mountains.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130219121214.htm

Brazil: Fireball recorded by security camera, caused small forest fire (Feb 20)

Translated (Video on the source page):

Fireball recorded at Spain (Feb 16)

Several flares along the route with explosive end.

Translated source:http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=ht...

Original source: http://www.spmn.uji.es/ESP/SPMNlist.html

Angelenos Report Seeing Meteor Light Up the Sky (Los Angeles, CA, Feb 21)

Several Southland residents late Thursday reported witnessing a bright light zoom across the sky.

Dozens of sky watchers told the American Meteor Society that they saw the fire ball. People in Ventura, Anaheim, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, Paso Robles, San Francisco and Santa Barbara posted on the group's website.

In an email to NBC4 News, Laguna Hills resident Patric Barry said he spotted the meteor out of his living room window at about 10:35 p.m.

"I saw a light and looked directly at the meteor as it came down in the ocean off Corona Del Mar. Bits came off, and it was bright white," he wrote.

The sightings come days after Bay Area residents were treated to a light show of their own when a fireball was seen streaking across the sky.

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Meteor Reported Across Southern California on Thursday Night (Feb 22)

Many people reported to what they said was a bright meteor across Southern California on Thursday night.

Not long after San Francisco saw their event, thousand reported a similar bright meteor event around 10:30 p.m. across Southern California.

Reports all the way to San Diego, with reports centering Los Angeles are coming in at a rapid rate.

"Look green to me, with a long thick tail," said Susan from Lancaster, Calif. "Almost looked like it was a firework."

No large meteor showers are currently underway at this time, but reports keep coming into Southern California Weather Authority (SCWXA) Facebook Page.

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Saturday, February 23, 2013
A fireball filmed in Bashkiria, four days before the Chelyabinsk, Russia at 250km

The video was taken on a road between Oufa, the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan and Orenburg February 11, 2013. The event took place 250 kilometers from the city of Chelyabinsk, which was 4 days later hit by a meteorite.

Traduced by google

http://www.wikistrike.com/article-une-boule-de-feu-filmee-en-bachki...

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.fr/2013/02/russia-bolide-11fe...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5eNRucyeEDo

Fireball  Spotted Over Roanoke (Virginia) Thursday Night (Feb 28)

WDBJ7 has gotten several reports through social media of people seeing a fireball shoot across the sky Thursday night.

We have checked into the reports and found that the object, likely a meteorite, was visible from Virginia to North Carolina.

Mena Hobs saw it and posted this on the WDBJ7 Facebook page.

"Last night around 9:41 pm a huge ball of orange light in the sky. You could see it beyond Roanoke Electric Steel. It dropped below the horizon and appeared again briefly."

More than a dozen shared their story on the American Meteor Society website.  The website tracks and archives fireball reports from around the country. 

http://www.wdbj7.com/news/wdbj7-fireball-spotted-over-roanoke-on-th...

Fireball Over Texas Skies (Feb 27)

Texans in the Houston area noticed a fiery glow light up the sky Wednesday morning.

Captain William Lowery was on his boat in the Freeport area when he saw a meteor fly across the sky in a brilliant orange flash around 3 a.m.

"Nothing like that magnitude," said Lowery. "I've seen shooting stars, but this lasted three to four minutes."

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http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/365890/28/Meteor-caught-on-camera-...

Fireball Falls From Sky, Scorches Field in Australia (Mar 3)

Officials on the Australian island of Tasmania said they have received several reports from people who saw a beam of light fall from the sky and start a fire.

Concerned residents of Claremont began reporting seeing a bright light igniting a fire in a nearby field early Saturday, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.

Tasmania Fire Service officer Scott Vinen said once the fire, which left a distinct burn mark, was put out an investigation into the source started.

"Once we put the fire out, we kind of walked through the fire and tried to find something," he said. "We thought a flare or something may have landed there, but we couldn't find any cause."

The Fire Service will not be investigating the incident any further, the news report said.

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http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2013/03/03/Fire-ball-falls-from-sky-sco...

New *cough* asteroid discovered over the weekend 2013EC set to pass closer than the moons orbit. Funny .. haven't heard anything about this on the news !

source: http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2013/03/03/asteroid-2013-ec-close-en...

And another "asteroid" - 2013ET has now been discovered. This is 100m wide and will pass by on 9th March.

Source: http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2013/03/04/asteroid-2013-et-imaged-b...

Huge asteroid 2013ET whizzes past Earth on March 9

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/video/huge-asteroid-whizzes-past-earth-034...

Meteor Seen Across 9 Midwestern States (Mar 8)

Many reports were made to the American Meteor Society from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and southern Ontario, Canada.

The meteor was reported around 9 p.m. as people reported seeing a streak of light headed across the night sky. The American Meteor Society website showed the meteor apparently falling over southern lower Michigan.

More reports of meteors were received Saturday night around 6:45 p.m. although none of these reports have been confirmed at this time.

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http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/288201/226/Meteor-streaks-across-M...

Here is data concerning fireballs, notice that the amount of fireballs concerning the first 2,5 months of 2013 already allmost equals the total amount of fireballs found in 2007

463 Events found in 2005 

517 Events found in 2006

588 Events found in 2007

726 Events found in 2008

694 Events found in 2009

951 Events found in 2010

1631 Events found in 2011

2126 Events found in 2012

558 Events found in 2013

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MBIQ Detects South Africa Bolide Fireball Meteor 12MAR2013

Initial Sighting Reports-
12MAR2013 Hein Maij Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa 12h30 5 seconds E-W, facing South Bright white light then explosion Very white bright Could not see none

12MAR2013 Danni Cape Town 12:30:00 3-5secs N-S Bright Bright white Same as Sun no Bright burning thing shooting down

12MAR2013 Leon Coetzee Cape Town SA 12:45:00 5 sec S-W Briliant White Whitest White Like Spot light No Part falling off. Very big white ball with                              Very big white ball with long white tail About 10 to 15 km away. Then explosion. No more light just huge ball of smoke. Most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life. Very exited. Dont know why not on the news. Didn't  any  body else see it?????????  

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Fireball Seen Gliding Across Carolina Skies (Mar 16)

There are several reports from Saturday night of a meteor gliding across the Carolina skies.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing a large bolide meteor that split into several pieces.  First Warn Storm Spotter Stuart McDaniel caught it all on his sky camera.

McDaniel lives in Northern Cleveland County.  In his video, the fast moving meteor moved rapidly across the sky growing bigger and bigger then fading away.

McDaniel isn’t the only one who saw the meteor; the American Meteorologist Society received 55 reports about this fireball seen over Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

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http://www.wcnc.com/news/Fireball-seen-gliding-across-the-Carolina-...

Meteor reports from Canada  (Mar 17)

Fireball Sweeps Across U.S. East Coast (Mar 22)

Hundreds of people from New Jersey to Florida reported seeing a brilliant streak of light shoot across the sky Friday evening.

There were immediate reports that the fireball crashed to Earth near the Maryland-Delaware state line but those reports were unconfirmed as of 8:45 p.m.

People all over Northern Virginia have reported spotting a fireball in the sky Friday night around 8 p.m. The American Meteor Society, at the time of this writing, has over 300 pending reports of a fireball.

Twitter and Facebook users described the amazing sight. @chuckywallace wrote, "Definitely saw it in Alexandria. My wife thought it was a flare! Very bright and lasted several solid seconds. There were two flashes as it continued to break apart."

Zane P., from Alexandria, wrote, "This one lasted a lot longer than most other fireballs I've seen. I expected sound as it kept getting closer, brighter and kept exploding. It exploded twice as it streaked across the sky."

 “I just happened to be facing our double glass door at the time! It was huge and bright green!!!! VERY COOL!” Kristin Davis wrote on our Facebook page.

“I thought it was a firecracker!?! It was green! What was that thing??” wrote Megan Lederman.

NASA, the FAA and the National Weather Service have yet to weigh in on the sky phenomena, but the website for the American Meteor Society had 251 reports from people in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida before 8:30 p.m.

Sources

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2297892/Possible-meteor-fli...

http://manassaspark.patch.com/articles/fireball-sweeps-across-north...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/22/meteor-east-co...

Meteor Streaks Seen Across US Sky (Mar 23)

A flash of light that streaked across the sky was believed to be a large vibrant meteor seen along the US East Coast. Others describe is as fireball because of its vibrance.

NASA has said that the large vibrant meteor which shot through the US sky on Friday evening appeared to be "a single meteor event."

The meteor travelled from west to east in the northeast sky. According to NASA expert, the flash appeared to be a fireball that moved roughly toward the southeast.

Nasa Confirms Meteor After 'Fireball' Reports

A flash of light that streaked across the sky over the east coast of the United States was probably a single meteor, Nasa has announced.

"Judging from the brightness, we're dealing with something as bright as the full moon," said Bill Cooke, who works for Nasa's Meteoroid Environmental Office.

"We basically had a boulder enter the atmosphere over the northeast."

Mr Cooke said the meteor had been widely seen, with hundreds of reports on social media like Twitter as well as the website of the American Meteor Society.

Society official Robert Lunsford said it "basically looked like a super bright shooting star".

The flash in the sky was spotted as far south as Florida and as far north as New England.

Eyewitness Matt Moore said he had been standing in line for a concert in Philadelphia around dusk when he saw a "brilliant flash moving across the sky at a very brisk pace ... and utterly silent".

"It was clearly high up in the atmosphere," he said. "But from the way it appeared, it looked like a plane preparing to land at the airport."

Mr Moore said the flash was visible to him for about two or three seconds, and then it was gone. He described it as having a "spherical shape and yellowish and you could tell it was burning, with the trail that it left behind".

Derrick Pitts, the chief astronomer at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, agreed that the sightings had all the hallmarks of a "fireball".

Mr Pitts said this one got more attention because it happened on a Friday evening - and because Twitter had provided a way for people to share information on the sighting.

He said what people probably saw was one meteor - or a "space rock" - that may have been the size of a volleyball falling fairly far down into the Earth's atmosphere.

He likened it to a stone skipping across the water - getting a "nice long burn out of it."

Mr Pitts said experts could not be 100% certain of what it was, unless it actually fell to the ground and they could track its trajectory.

But he said the descriptions by so many people were "absolutely consistent" with those of a meteor.

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