Early this morning a caller on the radio station I listen to in Denver, CO claimed to have seen a "UFO" moving very quickly with a green light. This witness account was corroborated by others who called in also. It sounded to me like another meteor.  Here's the Denver Post report:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_22896195/numerous-people-see-gree...

Early birds report meteor

What is thought to have been a bright meteor, streaking across the predawn Northern Colorado sky Thursday, sparked reports from dozens of early birds who happened to view it.

Loveland resident Shawn Kraft caught it as he drove northward on U.S. 287, between Owl Canyon and Livermore, on his daily commute to Laramie where he works for the city as an information technologist.

"Here's what I could equate it with," Kraft said. "You know those little sparklers that kids waved around before they were illegal? It was like that. Green. Bright green. Really bright green, in a pitch-black sky. It took about a second or a second and a half."

The "fireball log" maintained by the American Meteor Society, an online gathering spot for amateur observers, contained nearly simultaneous reports of the same sighting -- a bright green meteor seen between 5:46 and 5:50 a.m.

The reports came from Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.

"It was good-sized," Kraft said. "It's the biggest thing I've ever seen in the sky like that."

A meteor is the name given to the light emitted by a meteoroid, a small rocky object that enters the earth's atmosphere from space, as it burns in the upper atmosphere.

A rare meteorite is a surviving fragment of a meteoroid that impacts the earth's surface. The vast majority of meteoroids vaporize in the atmosphere.

Source:   http://www.reporterherald.com/news/loveland-local-news/ci_22890815/...

Spectacular meteor captured on camera

Shannon Bileski caught a meteor on camera while out at Patricia Beach March 29, 2013. (HANDOUT/Shannon Bileski)

WINNIPEG -- With her camera set to a shutter speed of eight seconds, a local woman managed to capture a spectacular meteor display.

Shannon Bileski was on the east side of Lake Winnipeg late Friday night with her astronomy club.

"We saw a bright flash with green explosions ... it was a meteor!" she wrote in an e-mail.

Source

FIREBALL EXPLODES IN THE MORNING SKY OVER NORWAY (APRIL 3)

Google translation]: Paper Deliverer witnessed the fireball that flew over southern Norway very early Wednesday morning. - Very interesting, says Knut Jorgen Roed Odegaard about the pictures she took. 

Tove Haveland is still exhilarated by the experience very early on Wednesday morning. While most of Norheimsund was asleep, the paperboy was out driving today's deliveries. Then she saw something in the morning sky. 

- It was a little before half past five and I saw the moon in the top right corner of the eye. Then it happened: It was as if something exploded in the sky. 

- Then it was just like a ball of fire fell from the sky, it fell straight down and slid slowly down. The color was the same as the moon, but it is not lit up in the same manner, says Haveland.

Source:  http://nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/hordaland/1.10973458

A brilliant ball of flame streaked across the sky above the Spanish capital Madrid, dazzling stargazers and astronomers alike. The celestial display was so bright it could be seen across the entire country.

The eye-popping moment was caught on camera by the Hita Observatory at the University of Huelva at around 11:45pm local time (2145 GMT). The object struck the atmosphere above the Villamuelas district in the province of Toledo, southwest of Madrid.

“The impact was so abrupt that the object immediately caught fire, creating a ball of flame around 100 kilometers above the Earth,” Jose Maria Madiedo of the University of Huelva told the Huffington Post. The meteor then shot towards Madrid at over 75,000 kilometers an hour before disintegrating completely at an altitude of 70 kilometers.

The Spanish Institution for the Study of Meteors and Meteorites, which tracked the fireball, classified the meteorite as a piece of a comet that was flying by Earth.

The explosion on impact was so bright that it could be viewed as far away as the southern Spanish cities of Seville, Granada and Murcia.

Source

Meteorite Fly by Hungary

Source   

17/04/13

On Tuesday night at 22.26pm a bright object possible meteorite fly through  the sky.

It was flying towards west, quiet low and fast. It had a blueish - greenish colour.

video Hungary fireball

21-04-2013 | 03:49:13

LAS TERMAS DE RIO HONDO- SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO- ARGENTINA

THE SKY IS ILLUMINATED AND THEN THERE WAS A BLAST

In what may have been the passage of a celestial object, thousands of termeños convulsed with strange event that lit up the sky. Then he heard a thunderous noise.

A huge glow illuminated the entire sky of Las Termas for about 5 seconds. The incident occurred at 3:20 in the morning on Sunday and caused an uproar in many disturbed and frightened termeños that took to the streets since then there was a deafening explosion.

The fire station in the city began to receive an endless succession of phone calls with neighbors alarmed by the situation.

While still in the early hours no precise information nor any government agency could confirm that is what happened, there are countless testimonies agree that it would have been a celestial object as the sky lit for about 5 seconds.

Social networks, primarily Facebook, insomniacs are saturated netizens commenting the strange event. Extend.

Traduced by google

http://www.riohondonews.com.ar/vernota.php?not_id=100002305

IT IS 100 KILOMETERS FROM WHERE I LIVE-

A meteor enlighted the sky of a big part of Argentina the night of 21/04/2013 at 0330.
Locals claims they hear a big explosion and felt the floor shook after it fell down at some inhabitated place of Santiago del Estero.
Some windows broken but at this moment theres no victims.

Source

Fireball Over Central Israel (Apr 25)

A meteor was seen Thursday evening in the skies over central Israel. The meteor turned into a fireball as it went through the atmosphere in an easterly direction and burned up without touching the ground.

Source

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/267088#.UX8gNMqzcoM

APRIL 28 , 2013- URUGUAY

Astronomers are confident that what was seen in Rocha was a meteorite

The phenomenon bewildered many between Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday. The astronomer Gonzalo Tancredi has no doubt that it was a meteor, although they are still collecting items.

"We have been collecting reports from people who saw and heard the phenomenon, in the Castles, Chuy, to Maldonado and Thirty-Three., But most comes from Rocha" said Dr. Tancredi to El Pais.

But the strongest hypothesis for the astronomer and director of the Astronomical Observatory Los Molinos, the phenomenon was due to a meteor entering the atmosphere. "We call it as a fireball, brighter than a full moon.'s Income that object at high speed, and its collision with the molecules and atoms in the atmosphere, was consuming the material and heating, acquiring a glow intense, "said Tancredi.

The truth is that in Rocha, in the provincial capital and other towns, was the dominant theme

Fortunately, the phenomenon did not cause other effects that surprise and, indeed, there are no reports of its impact on the surface.

SIGNS. "That has very short duration (no more than three seconds) and the presence of the sonic boom is heard seconds later, suggests that it is a phenomenon of this type, meteor," said the expert .

Traduced by google

http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/astronomos-estan-seguros-de-qu...

VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DGj7DlR4oU&feature=player_embedded

LARGE METEOR DANCES ACROSS WYOMING SKY

A large meteor exploded in the sky above southern Wyoming on Sunday night and was observed from as far as 400 miles away.

Jordan Dowers of Olympia, Wash., was driving along Interstate 80 near Laramie with his father when they spotted it about 10:45 p.m.

“The first thing we noticed is the sky lit up really bright,” said Dowers, 23. “At first it was, ‘Where did that lightning strike come from?’ Then it was much, much brighter than lightning. From the south, it was neon blue. It looked like it was going to hit the ground. Then it just disappeared.”

Eight witnesses reported the event to the American Meteor Society, including people as far away as Idaho and Colorado.

Technically, the meteor is called a bolide, said society volunteer Mike Hankey, who lives in Baltimore.

Bolides tend to be blue in color. 

A bolide is “the type of meteor that leaves meteorites” after exploding, Hankey said. “It’s really bright. It gets everyone excited.”

Hankey estimated the bolide’s trajectory at 150 miles. It traveled from southeast to northwest and lasted just seconds.

“They blow up and that’s when all that light happens,” Hankey said. “Then the boulder turns into thousands of little pieces.”

In fact, it’s rare for stuff from outer space to stream through the atmosphere without burning up or exploding, he said.

“With movies and all this, we think it’s, like, this burning mass that hits the ground and then there’s this explosion and a crater on the ground. That happens only once every 100,000 years,” he said.

About three bolides trail across the Earth’s skies a day. But a person actually seeing a bolide is rare since most of the world is covered by oceans.

Most people will only see a bolide once or twice in their lifetimes, Hankey said.

In Wyoming, the lack of light pollution from cities may increase someone’s chances. At 5:45 a.m. on March 28, a meteor that

traveled across the sky from the Big Horn Mountains to Montana’s Medicine Rocks State Park was seen by people as far away as Canada. Numerous Casperites who were commuting for work saw it, too.

Hankey said that when he started working with the society in 2009, only a few bolides were reported.

Large Green Fireball Seen Across England and Wales (May 8)

http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Meteor-fireball-seen-Bath/story-1893478...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2321836/Green-fireba...

A meteor has been spotted travelling across the night sky by people in many parts of England and Wales.

Sightings of the celestial body were reported on Twitter in areas such as Cornwall, Hampshire, Lancashire, south Wales and Worcestershire.

Suzy Buttress, of Basingstoke, described witnessing the meteor as a "once in a lifetime thing".

Ms Buttress, who was driving home on the M3 when she saw the heavenly object, told the BBC: "It was amazing, so big, bigger than a shooting star. It had a strange greenish tinge to it, with a definite tail behind it.

"This was definitely a ball with a tail. It took its time going across the sky. It went behind a cloud, then came out the other end.

"At first I hoped it wasn't an aircraft crashing. It's a once in a lifetime thing."

Richard Escott, a security supervisor for the BBC in Cardiff, explained what he saw.

"I was standing outside having a bit of fresh air and as I turned round I saw this very bright blue light which was dimming," he said.

"It was coming very steadily, progressing across the night sky, but it was at sort of building level and then died out to nothing.

Source

FIREBALL METEOR EXPLODES NEAR TOKIO, JAPAN (May 6)

A meteor exploded over Japan terrifying dozens people in the early morning of May 6, 2013. An amateur photographer captured spectacular images of the blast which were then posted on the Internet (scroll down for video and photos).

The space rock disintegrated in the atmosphere releasing a noisy boom over Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo. The celestial event took place at 3.58 a.m. local time and a video footage shows the meteor appearing as a fast moving fireball whose intensity gradually increases.

The first snaps were uploaded by an eyewitness on the blog Sonotaco.jp before spreading across the social networks.

Source:   http://www.sott.net/article/261673-Fireball-Meteor-explodes-near-To...

Namibia:  Meteorite Strikes Mahangu Field (May 10)

Onesi — Thousands of people have flocked to the Omusati Region out of curiosity to view a small piece of meteorite that landed in a mahangu field in the village of Oshika, in Onesi Constituency, yesterday morning.

The incident created fear and panic among villagers who suggested the 'strange object' had something to do with the recent commotion over the 12 South African aircraft that were released after days of grounding at Ondangwa Airport. The aircraft of South African origin were grounded for several days and then sent back to South Africa, because they had no permits to use Namibian airspace.

People who came from all over the five northern regions, including the Kunene Region, flocking to Oshika, expressed fears that the tourists may have had something to do with the 'strange' object that fell in the mahangu field of Andreas Kamafo Ningilenimo.

"Maybe those people who came here with so many aircraft are responsible for this. Maybe that object is poisonous, we are scared, we won't even want to get close to it. If it is not taken away, we will not cultivate near it," said Selma Shikongo.

A piece of meteorite, the of a size of a small ball or two human fists put together made such an impact that people within a radius of over 200km were able to hear the explosive impact, feel the resulting tremor and observe the blinding light that followed as it landed.

A local engineer suggested that the object needs to be analysed to determine its chemical composition. According to the engineer, meteorites are rocks from outer space, and are referred to as meteors before they hit the ground. Once they hit the ground, the objects that are made of metallic substances, are then referred to as meteorites.

"They burn because of the high velocity at which they travel, that is why they look like burned metal when they hit the ground," said the engineer who requested anonimity. The engineer further said meteors are very fast and heavy which justifies the explosive sound and vibration while still in the air and as they hit the ground.

Selma Shikongo, the wife of Ningilenimo, said the incident took place at around 4.30 yesterday morning when the family was still in bed. "First we saw a light through our bedroom window, which my husband brushed off, thinking that it was car passing by. We then heard a sizzling sound, then a loud bang. The children ran to me saying that something had fallen near the entrance of the house, and we should run away. While I was comforting the children, we saw another bluish light - and once more there was a sizzling sound, then everything went silent," Shikongo explained.

According to Shikongo, the family went out of the house later in the morning in search for what had fallen but they couldn't find it immediately. It was only after they returned from the homestead of their neighbours, that they noticed the object that looked like burned metal lying in their own mahangu field - just a few metres from their homestead. That is when they reported the incident to the police. People who flocked to the scene from as far as the Oshana and Ohangwena regions, also claimed to have seen the light, while some claim to have heard the loud bang and even felt tremors.

"It sounded like a bomb, but it was so difficult to figure out the direction," said one person from the Ohangwena Region. Another person from the Oshana Region claimed that he saw the bright light through his bedroom window, but it was very fleeting, in the early morning hours. Simon Shingulu Josef a petrol attendant from Okaxwakangamba, a village near Outapi, said he was getting ready for work at around 4 o'clock in the morning when he saw a bright light accompanied by a whistling sound followed by explosive vibrations.

"The light came from the east to the west and it looked so bright, like the light of day and it was accompanied by a sizzling sound. The roof of my room was vibrating and I heard a loud bang that felt like a bomb exploding. When I came to work, people from faraway places, including Angola, were asking what had happened in Namibia," said Josef. Louise Geldenhuys, who was one of the thousands of people who went to witness the 'fallen star' said he had suspected that the unknown object was either a meteorite or something that came from space.

"But I suggested to the police officer that they should guard it, it could be valuable" he said.

Source:  http://allafrica.com/stories/201305100902.html

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Amazing in Calabria- ITALY: meteorite falls to the ground and causes a fire in the woods of Cosenza!

Unbelievable what happened a few hours ago in the province of Cosenza, where a bright object and 'fell from the sky on a hill in the locality' of St. George Colucci Albanian causing a fire in a stretch of woods. Some people living in the area have seen a streak of light in the sky and an object that was falling down and alerted the fire department of Cosenza. In the area where and 'dropped the subject, particularly impervious, and' quickly developed a fire. On the spot and 'stepped a team of firefighters in Rossano (Cosenza), , which is taking steps to extinguish the flames. Investigations are underway to locate the object fell from the sky described by some witnesses. It's not 'excluded, according to the description given by the witnesses, that it may be a fragment of meteorite. Hundreds of onlookers who had spotted the fireball in the sky,they have approached the fire zone but being particularly inaccessible, failed to arrive at the point of impact. Has not yet been announced by the authorities if the object has been retrieved for the investigations. On the site there is still a huge fire and only tomorrow morning the situation will be clearer.

Traduced by google

http://www.meteoweb.eu/2013/05/incredibile-in-calabria-meteorite-ca...

METEOR SEEN ON CYPRUS SKIES (MAY 20)

MAY 19  2013

La Paz,Baja California Sur-  MEXICO

Police looking for traces of meteorite

The fall of a mysterious object that occurred at 4:08 pm today and caused a loud explosion was heard in the capital city, has originated and mobilization of elements of the Municipal Police and Civil Protection in the area of Chametla and El Centenario.

Witnesses report that a ball of white / red that left a trail, crossed the horizon and seconds later heard a loud explosion.

At the time the National Weather Service has not deployed any information regarding earthquake.

From eight in the morning on Sunday, Navy aircraft type Mexico Moravan Zlin 242-L have started reconnaissance flights in the southwest area of the municipality of La Paz, in relation to the statements of citizens who observed a meteorite fall , causing a shockwave that could be felt strongly in the south of the state capital.

According to the commander of the municipal police in San Pedro, José Luis Amador Olachea, received the report of residents of Rancho Santa Martha, of sub-delegation of El Carrizal, who mentioned having heard "a loud roar."

traduced by  google

http://colectivopericu.net/2013/05/18/policia-busca-restos-de-meteo...

http://colectivopericu.net/2013/05/19/personal-mlitar-va-rumbo-a-sa...

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/mbiq-detects-p...

Four Fireballs Seen Over the U.S. Within 24 Hours (May 19)
AMS has received confirmed reports about 4 unique fireball events all occurring near 4:00 AM UTC time. The most recent event occurred in Arkansas and Missouri on May 19th near 3:37 UTC. At the same time 3:37 UTC 4 witnesses reported a fireball in Arizona. The distance between these two locations would inhibit witnesses from observing the same fireball from both locations. On May 18th two large fireball meteors were also spotted within an hour of each other, one over the central east coast and another in Colorado.

Rick Scott says: May 19, 2013 at 1:42 pm

On Saturday evening, May 18, 2013, at about 10:00 pm central time, a group of 8-10 neighbors were sitting outside visiting in a community just north of Little Rock, Arkansas. I was facing north and saw a fireball with a distinct green color streak across the sky from east to west. I shouted out and everyone turned to see it, too. I’ve never seen anything like it in my 62 years, apart from the movies. I’m not over-reacting to say that it was nearly unbelievable. That’s why I am on this site – I went looking to see if there were other, similar reports.

Sources

http://www.amsmeteors.org/2013/05/four-fireballs-at-four-in-last-24...

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/your_life/life_news_collection/hum...

Fireball Seen Over Eastern U.S. (May 27)

AMS received 51 reports of fireball seen over the eastern U.S. on May 27th 2013 around 01:06 (UTC).

Glimpses of the bolide were reported from Maryland in the U.S., to Ajax, Ontario as it burned up in the atmosphere.

People reporting the event on American Meteor Society website called it one of the "brightest fireballs they'd ever seen" with a wide, bright flame trail.

Sources

http://amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/1143

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquinox/bright-fireball-streaks-o...

Large Fireball Screams Across U.S. Skies (May 31)

A large fireball screamed across U.S. skies Thursday night.  AMS received over 200 reports about this fireball seen over Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia on May 31st 2013 around 03:09 (UTC).

One of 9 On Your Side's Twitter followers sent this photo they snapped of the fireball.

An earthquake-like shaking felt by some Ohioans on Thursday night is being attributed to the large fireball.

There have been no official reports of damage and it is unknown where the fireball may have landed.

In an email to 9 On Your Side, a viewer from Cincinnati said he saw the fireball project across the sky for nearly 10 seconds.

Another viewer reported seeing the fireball from north of Taylor Mill, Ky. Witnesses who filed a report with the AMS cited their viewing of the fireball from Villa Hills and Covington also.

The AMS did not say specifically what the fireball was, but asked witnesses to fill out an official fireball report with the American Meteor Society at http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/fireball/report-a-fireball .

http://amsmeteors.org/2013/05/large-fireball-meteor-with-sonics-ove...

Sources

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/1185

http://www.kypost.com/dpps/news/local_news/large-fireball-screams-a...

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/topstories/story/Dozens-report...

http://news.cincinnati.com/VideoNetwork/2248498829001/Caught-on-cam...

Fireball Roars Over Finland (May 8)

Hundreds of people reported a bright light accompanied by a roaring over Finnish skies three weeks ago.

An unusual light and sound phenomenon that was sighted in Finnish skies in early May has been confirmed as a fireball, in other words a very bright meteor. The light was seen on May 8th in parts of southern and central Finland.

The Ursa Astronomical Association estimated on Wednesday that the object was half a metre long and weighed 50 kilos when it entered the earth’s atmosphere.

The meteor is believed to have fallen into a field somewhere in Huittinen, a rural municipality between Tampere and Turku. The remnant that struck the earth probably weighed about five kilos, which is unusually large. One this size usually only hits Finland about once in a decade.

Ursa received nearly 300 observational reports of the incident, including accounts of hearing rumbles and explosive sounds.

Source

http://yle.fi/uutiset/ursa_light_phenomenon_was_an_exceptionally_la...

At 6 pm last night, in south east queensland, not one (as the article mentions) but two fireballs about 5 - 10 minutes apart lit up our sky. Began with a blue flash, like lightning, followed soon after by a bright orange object.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/moreton/meteor-spott...

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2013/06/14/453113_gold-coast-ne...

http://www.qt.com.au/news/burning-meteorite-steaks-across-sky/1907233/

AMS received 44 reports of a fireball seen over northern California, Oregon and Washington on June 16th 2013 around 06:06 UTC.

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/1284

Tuesday, June 25 2013

Fireball in the skies of Emilia Romagna (Video)- ITALY

On the evening of June 21 a fireball was spotted in the skies of Emilia Romagna. The video highlights the object entering the atmosphere at high speed that has been observed by many casual observers.

http://translate.google.com.ar/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=n&a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb8RjjZ9rbo&feature=player_embedded

Fireball Streaks Across Central California Skies (June 23)

A dramatic meteor reportedly lit up the skies over the East Bay Saturday night, streaking over Alamo and crossing over the Las Trampas Regional Wilderness toward Moraga, according to one witness.

"It looked like a missile," said a Walnut Creek Patch reader, who said it covered miles in a second in a fast, straight line, with a contrail. "We all jumped up."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/23/east-bay-meteor_n_3487345....

AMS Reports

"Full and very bright moon out tonight. Was looking up at outdoor lights i just finished hanging and large fireball streaks from left to right over 3/4 of the viewable sky with a long and bright tail. Longest, biggest, brightest and widest as far as the fireball and tail. No small streak, got the adrenaline going for sure." (Napa, CA)

"This remarkable fireball had a long off white tail which we saw longer than any we've ever seen. The altitude of this fireball was less than a mile. It seemed very low." (Forestville, CA)

"This was very large and seemed fairly close to the ground. It travelled very fast and cut a large arc across the sky. The green and purple colors of the trail were very bright and vivid." (Berkeley, CA)

Fireball Blazes Across South Florida Skies (June 24)

Video

AMS Report

Fireball Seen Across Midwestern U.S. Skies (June 24)

"I've seen a lot of meteor showers an shooting stars this was the biggest and brightest object from space that I've seen. Wish I could have gotten some video it was amazing. Anyone that saw the space station go by the other day this looked 5-8 Times bigger at the front and the tail was stretched across about a fourth of the sky. It was mostly a green color with a bluish green tail and some orange falling away from it." (Louisville, Kentucky)

"It turned bright, almost from horizon to horizon northwest to southeast and got brighter at the southeast horizon, as if the body may have descended close to ground level." (Larchwood, Iowa)

"Myself and group of friends saw a huge flash in the sky and when we looked up there was a trail of red orange fire. It happened around 2 or 3 am june 24th" (Sioux City, Iowa)

Sources

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/1291

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/1290#top

Fireball Observed Across North Central U.S. Skies (June 26)

"Biggest, brightest (nearest?) ever seen. Further west, appeared 2 B satellite observing?" (Glenwood Springs, Colorado)

Source

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/1367#top

Fireballs in Russia were strength of 30 atomic bombs.

http://www.weather.com/video/strength-of-30-atomic-bombs-37624

Fireball Observed Over North Central U.S. (July 10)

AMS received 18 reports of fireballs observed over Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Montana, South Dakata, Wisconsin and Wyoming on July 10th 2013 around 04:07 (UTC).

"We thought it was a plane falling from the sky. The tail was orange sparks. It seemed extremely close."

"Nice fireball. I have seen hundreds of them, and this one is certainly top 10."

"The fireball was green in appearance and moving slowly. Prior to extinguishing, it turned yellow/orange. There was no fragmentation or sound I could distinguish. The total observable time was approximately 6 seconds from my spotting it."

Source

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/1426#top

Large Fireballs Observed Over North America (July 12)

More than 200 people from Indiana to Ohio southward toward North Carolina reported seeing a large fireball. Most of the sightings came in just before midnight and folks reported the it was traveling from south to north across the sky.  The fireball was described as bright white with some red.

The American Meteor Society page has 86 reports from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Georgia of a fireball sighting.

Reports of the Saturday morning fireball in Virginia were of a very bright, bluish meteor. Some reported a loud bang or boom with the visual.

Another bright fireball was observed earlier in the evening over parts of Ontario around 10 p.m. The fireball was also spotted in Toronto, Newmarket, Oshawa and as far away as Sudbury.

"Green glowing sphere falling through the sky with an orange flame behind it."

Sources

http://www.wcnc.com/weather/Meteorite-spotted-over-North-Carolina-2...

http://www.wvva.com/story/22832989/2013/07/13/fireball-seen-over-se...

http://globalnews.ca/news/715093/bright-meteor-spotted-over-souther...

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/1438

Fireball Crosses the Caribbean (July 29)

The Cayman skies were lit up by a fairly large fireball that traveled from the direction of Belize towards Jamaica on Monday night.

“By the time the meteor got to the middle of the island, it had broken up into a number of segments and may have gone past Jamaica as well,” President of the Cayman Islands Astronomical Society, Chris Coo observed.

“This is an extremely rare event,” he said.

Source

http://caymannetnews.com/2013/08/01/meteor-shower-brightens-cayman-...

Fireball over Puerto Rico July 21/2013

AMS has received nearly 50 reports of a fireball seen over the northeastern U.S. on Aug 1st.

"It was the brightest, longest, and slowest firery thing I have seen."

"I have never seen anything as large, bright, or long lasting as what I saw last night in the night sky."

"It was the longest, most radiantly brilliant shooting star fireball that I have ever seen ... breathtaking!"

"This was an unmistakable slow-moving orange meteor."

48 reports about this fireball seen over MD, NJ, NY, ON, PA and VA on August 2nd 2013 around 04:54 (UTC).

Source

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/1585#top

Fireball, 13th August 2013, Canberra, Australia

Since August 16, there have been over 50 validated reports by AMS of dramatic fireballs over the U.S. Considering the annual Perseid meteor shower essentially concluded August 14, the noted observations speak for themselves.

August 23

"It was the largest event my husband and I have ever seen. My husband is a pilot and space buff so he's seen many."

"The most impressive, bright, long lasting meteor I've seen."

August 22

"I've never seen a fireball so close and lasting so long! I was with several neighbors, and it lasted long enough that I was able to tell them all to turn around, and they still got to see a lot of it."

"5 of us were at an outdoor backyard gathering and saw it together, quite amazing and knew it wasn't a shooting star."

"This meteor/fire ball was the largest I have ever seen. It was very bright and lasted for a few seconds, long enough for my friend to turn around and still see it traveling in the air until it eventually burned out."

August 20

"It was huge. My daughter saw it too. there was fog. Did not look like any falling star I have ever seen."

August 16

"I was at an outdoor late dinner party. 3 people, including me, sitting at the table, and facing the same direction as me, witnessed the same thing. It started as a a white streak, low in the sky, got wider and brighter ..then unexpectedly exploded in a bright white flash. There was no sound. The event lasted several seconds and was startling."

******

Perseid Meteor Shower Comes to an End (Aug 13)

The Perseid meteor shower happens this time every year, caused by the Earth passing through the dust trail of Comet Swift-Tuttle's path. The comet orbits the sun every 130 years and was last closest 20 years ago, leaving dust particles in its wake.

"GRAIN OF SAND put's on a really good show when it hits the atmosphere at 100,000 miles per hour," says Minnesota State University Moorhead Professor, Dr. Matt Craig

http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/23122820/perseid-meteor-shower-...

Bright Fireball  Blazes Over Canary Islands (Aug 25)

A green light "brighter than the day" and lasting three seconds was reported by pilots and witnesses on the ground over the north of the Canary Islands..

The official Twitter account of Spain's Air Traffic Control (@controladores) was the first to break the news, according to The Huffington Post.

"Various aircraft over the north of the Canary Islands just reported a bright light, lasting 3 seconds, as if it was daytime,"  it tweeted.

It then added: "From the descriptions given by pilots it was probably a meteorite. Even so, protocols oblige that the military be informed"

Witnesses described the phenomenon as "a white light coming down, with a long tail, falling."

Javier Licandro, of the Canaries Institute of Astrophysics (IAC), told the press that it was most likely a meteoroid of the kind that broke up in the atmosphere, rather than a meteorite which survives contact with the ground.

Licandro said that he would check the data recorded by the observatories on La Palma and Tenerife to see if they had registered the phenomenon.

Twitter was soon full of people describing what they had seen.

@German_Herrera1 wrote:  "I saw it from my house in La Laguna, a green light lasting three seconds. Impressive!"

There has so far been no official explanation given.

Source

http://www.thelocal.es/20130826/mystery-meteor-flashes-over-canary-...

HUGE FIREBALL LIGHTS UP ALABAMA NIGHT SKY

 August 28

NASA's All-Sky cameras captured a very bright meteor burning up in the atmosphere at the same time that the Moon was in the camera field of view. Early estimates: meteor weighed ~100lbs and was traveling ~53,000 mph.

Source

Fireball near San Luis Potosi, Mexico, August 21/2013

Fireball Italy (Sep. 03/2013)

Italians in the north east are on the hunt for traces of a fireball which raced across the sky in the early hours of Tuesday morning and "unsettled pets".

The ball of fire, thought to be a meteorite, was spotted between 2.30am and 2.45am and accompanied by a loud bang and thunder-like roar, Il Gazzettino reported.

It was spotted by locals across the north east, including people in Venice and Padua. One local resident told Il Gazzettino the event had "unsettled his pets".

Perplexed residents called the fire brigade and police duly went on a hunt for the extraterrestrial, but failed to find any traces of a meteorite.

http://www.thelocal.it/20130903/video-mysterious-ball-of-fire-light...

Large Fireball Blazes Across Alabama Sky (Sept 9)

There have been numerous reports of a bright flash of light in the sky, as well as reports of loud booms.

Over 250 witnesses reported a large fireball over Alabama Sept 9 1:25 UTC. The fireball was seen from primarily Alabama and Georgia, but witnesses from Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, and the Carolina’s also reported seeing the fireball.

Twitter users reported seeing a streak across around 8:45 from locations including Pelham, North Jefferson County, Cullman and Irondale.

The Vestavia Hills Fire Department, for example, responded to about four reports of a loud boom that was heard in the Shades Crest Road area.

Some concertgoers at the Mumford & Sons concert at the Oak Mountain Amphitheater reported seeing the light streak across the sky.

Over 250 witnesses have reported seeing the event on the American Meteor Society web site, many from Alabama. Other reports came from Georgia and Tennessee.

"It was something I have never seen before," said a resident in Harpersville.

Amazing, it was beautiful," said an observer in Northport.

"This is the largest meteor fireball I've ever seen!" according to an observer in Lewisburg, Tenn.

Julie Marchman, in an email to AL.com, said that she spotted the fireball over Duluth, Ga. "It was a huge streak of light in the sky that looked like something falling through space into our atmosphere," she said. "It change colors (from white to green to red I think).  Simply amazing!"

Source

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/09/post_996.html

Bright Fireball Observed Across Southwestern U.S (Sept 17)

People from San Diego, CA to Las Vegas, NV to Phoenix, AZ reported seeing a bright fireball on Sept 17. 

"This reminded me of Russia in February."

"Tonight I witnessed something I've never seen before. On September 17, 2013 at approximately 2310 I was sitting on my front porch. Out of nowhere I saw a bright blue ball with a VERY long lighter blue tail falling fast from the sky approximately 90° above the horizon to the east. I continued to watch it for approximately 10-15 seconds until it was no longer visible due to it going deep behind homes in front of me. Approximately 5 seconds later all the dogs in the neighborhood, due east of my home were barking vigorously for about 20 minutes. I never saw this object burn out nor did I hear any noise of it hitting the earth's ground afterward, but what an amazing an beautiful sight to see!"

"From Hemet it looked like it was headed east. Bright white ball with molten red edges, flashing brighter as it neared the horizon." Lindquist said she saw the meteor at about 11:10 p.m., while she was driving.

"Saw a huge fireball cross the horizon while driving down the freeway. It was like being in a science fiction movie. I hope someone got it on video."

"I saw it here in Beaumont. Super huge. Biggest I've ever seen."

Sources

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/sep/17/fireball-california/

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/1986

Fireball Lights Up Queensland Australia Skies (Sept 20)
People across south-east Queensland have reported seeing the bright, large fireball that shot across night skies about 8pm yesterday.

The meteor was seen from Sydney to Gympie. Sightings have been reported in Toowoomba, Highfields, Chinchilla and across the Sunshine Coast.

Social media lit up with reports of the meteor.

Higgins Storm Chasing posted photos from fixed cameras across the state, including one at Archerfield in Brisbane and another at Redcliffe.

"Darn bright" was how one Facebook post described it.

Source

http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/meteor-lights-south-east-qld-ni...

Fireball Observed Across Nova Scotia, Northeastern U.S. (Sept 17)

Laura Jean Clements was driving in Nova Scotia when she saw a bright fireball zip through the sky, trailed by a colorful green and orange tail.

There was talk on social media sites about a meteor being tracked across the sky on the eastern seaboard of the United States shortly before Clements’ sighting at 11:10 p.m.

Boston meteorologist Matt Noyes reported there were sightings of a meteor-like greenish streak with orange tail all the way from Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Nova Scotia.

Sightings were also reported from Long Island, New York, Boston and Bar Harbor, Maine.

A Fireball Report by amsmeteors.org indicates 49 different people along the east coast reported seeing the flash of light.

Sources

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Regional/2013-09-19/article-33949...

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2013/09/18/boston-meteor-possible-met...

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/2001

Bright Fireball Blazes Across Midwestern U.S. Skies (Sept 26)

AMS "Heat Map" showing the density of witness locations.

Nearly 500 reports from 15 different states have flowed into the American Meteor Society (AMS) reporting an extremely bright fireball slowly trickling across the sky. Based on those reports, the AMS estimates the fireball was moving from west to east across the Midwest, before ultimately culminating somewhere in eastern Indiana.

Witnesses reported shadows cast upon the ground, unusual sounds, and a swirling contrail marking the aftermath of the blast.

"This was a very bright event," reports Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Flares saturated our meteor cameras, and made determination of the end point (the terminus of the fireball's flight through the atmosphere) virtually impossible. Judging from the brightness, we are dealing with a meter class object."

Data from multiple cameras shows that the meteoroid hit Earth's atmosphere traveling 51 km/s (114,000 mph) and passed almost directly over Columbus, Ohio.

Kevin Keadle, 26, of Palatine, Ill. was one of those lucky enough to catch the fireball. Keadle told Weather.com he snapped the picture above from his apartment around 6:20 CDT and that the fireball was "really visible" and moved extremely slowly across the sky, lasting "a minute-and-a-half to two minutes."

"The sun was coming up, so it just looked like a blip with a big bright trail behind it,"  Keadle said.

The AMS reports that September has been a busy month for meteor sightings. This morning's event marks the thirteenth fireball sighting with at least 25 witnesses, the most ever since the AMS started recording sightings online.

Sources

http://www.weather.com/news/midwest-meteor-fireball-20130926

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/2132

http://wqad.com/2013/09/26/hundreds-report-seeing-bright-fireball-a...

http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?PHPSESSID=0rdtql6d20o8tfo348fsm...

Hundreds Report Large Fireball Across Texas (Sept 21)
A green fireball shot across the Texas sky on Saturday night (Sept. 21) at around 9 PM CST. Witnesses from all over Texas, including Abilene, Austin, the DFW metroplex, Houston, and Waco reported seeing the fireball.

Some eye witnesses say they saw a second flash of light following the first brighter flash. But unlike other recent fireballs, video of this meteor has yet to surface. There has also been no official word on the size of the meteor or how long it took to disintegrate as it blazed across the sky.

An eye witness reported the following on the Texas Storm Chasers Facebook page: “i am a firefighter with heart of the pines vfd in bastrop tx. we had just made a run and i was walking my long driveway back to the house with my uniform still on and admiring the starry sky when i saw the most amazing toxic green streak … it was HUGE! and it silently exploded into a large white ball of light and then dozens of brilliant orange fragments i guess went off in every direction. it was so low to the ground that i dropped to one knee.”

“We saw not just one but two, the 1st a bright shooter with a nice trail, the 2nd was amazing, the brightest meteor we’ve ever seen with sparkling trail of red yellow and orange. Wish we had our camera, it was one in a million,” responded another from Plano, TX.

Several witnesses say the fireball was quite large and appeared to be very close to the earth.

Last month another bright fireball was captured on video as it screamed over Tennessee. NASA later confirmed this fireball and said it was one of the brightest on record. The August Tennessee fireball also appeared over the northern tip of Georgia early in the morning, around 3:27 AM.

“From Chickamauga, Georgia, the meteor was 20 times brighter than the Full Moon; shadows were cast on the ground as far south as Cartersville,” said Bill Cooke, NASA’s head of the Meteoroid Environment Office in a statement.

Cooke claimed this fireball came in at an altitude of 21 miles and clocked in at a final speed of 19,400 mph, setting off a sonic boom as it disintegrated in our atmosphere.

A few days later another bright fireball was seen in Georgia and Alabama by thousands of eye witnesses, many of whom were at a Mumford and Sons concert at the time.

NASA also confirmed this fireball and said it entered the atmosphere at 76,000 mph. This meteor also set off a sonic boom and was also greenish in color, much like this past Saturday’s blazer. NASA officials estimate the meteor was the size of a baseball when it flew across the southern sky at 8:18 PM CST.

Sources

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112956084/texas-skies-ablaze-gr...

Another Massive Fireball Blazes Across U.S. Skies (Sept 27)

Fireball on September 27 at 11:33 p.m. as photographed from Dolly Sods, WV (Alex Parlini)

AMS received 847 reports of another bright fireball over the U.S. on Friday night that followed a similar event over the same area the day before. 

Witnesses from Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin and West Virginia reported a bright light moving across the night sky on September 27 at around 11:33 p.m. local time. The fireball was also seen as far north as Alberta, Canada.

Brad H. from Logan, Ohio posted on the AMS website, "This was the brightest Bolide/Fireball I've ever seen in my 20+ years of observing the night sky. It left an afterimage in my vision and was so bright I could see the colors of the treetops by its light."

September 2013 has been a busy month for sightings of bright meteors. Last night’s event marks the 14th fireball sighting with at least 25 witnesses in September, breaking the same record that was set on Thursday night for the most fireball events in September.

Sources

http://earthsky.org/earth/u-s-midwest-sees-another-bright-fireball

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/2132

http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/national/Copy_of_Canada-meteor-Firebal...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/10...

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Giant fireball lit the skies over Italy: hundreds of reports.

In the evening, a few minutes after 21:20, a giant "fireball" lit up the skies Italian, seen by many cities (Florence, Bologna, Ancona, Pescara, Perugia, Rome, Naples, Bari, Taranto, Lecce, Foggia, Crotone, Catanzaro and many others)

http://translate.google.com.ar/translate?sl=it&tl=en&prev=_...

Yet Another Massive Fireball Over Southeastern U.S. (Sept 28)

AMS has been bombarded by fireball reports from all different parts of the country this week. The latest event took place over Alabama and Georgia last night September 28th 7:30 PM local time. 350 witnesses from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama and Georgia have reported the event so far. Below is a heat map of the witnesses who saw the event.

Angelique F., a poster from Millbrook, Ala., wrote, “This fireball resembled the size and altitude of a crop duster just over tall pine tree level but was made entirely of fire.”  She said the fireball moved left to right as she was facing northeast.

A Gallatin, Tenn., poster said, “It was the largest and brighest fireball I have ever seen.”

Conner Meredith wrote, “I saw it very clearly shoot all the way across the sky near Cherokee Blvd at Spring St. It looked like a small object on fire and moving very fast.”

James Spann, a TV meteorologist in Birmingham, Ala., tweeted around 9 p.m., “Bill Cooke of NASA reports tonight’s fireball is the 15th significant one this month — ‘very unusual’ in his words.”

Sources

http://timesfreepress.com/news/2013/sep/28/fireball-streaks-across-...

http://www.amsmeteors.org/2013/09/another-massive-fireball-over-atl...

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/2158