Earth Changes and the Pole Shift
Fireballs on the Rise
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."
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SongStar101
Huge Fireball spiral over Miami FL. The vid says UFO but clearly a fireball.
Sep 4, 2015
Poli
Hi SongStar, there was new ZT on this:
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/05sp2015.htm
Sep 4, 2015
SongStar101
Fireball during the day! Bangkok Thailand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cLamlLT0BU
Sep 7, 2015
Howard
Fireball Over Washington DC (Sep 8)
A bright fireball streaking across the sky Tuesday night was captured on camera from the Washington Monument.
According to NASA’s Meteor Watch, the fireball was seen in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and West Virginia around 9:27 p.m.
It moved east to west and appeared to be orange, according to witness reports on the American Meteor Society’s website.
Sources
http://wtop.com/dc/2015/09/washington-monument-captures-bright-mete...
https://www.facebook.com/NasaMeteorWatch/videos/vb.335587379833828/...
http://www.amsmeteors.org/2015/09/bright-meteor-captured-on-washing...
Sep 10, 2015
Howard
Fireball Blazes Over Oman, Explodes (Sep 9)
Locals in Wilayat of Yanqul in Al Dhahira Governorate reported that they witnessed the object and also heard it crash.
"We are also not sure whether it landed in Sultanate, but it definitely passed through the atmosphere. But we don’t know where it landed exactly,” according to Saleh Al Shidhani from the Oman Astronomical Society.
He added the object passed through Al Dhahira Governorate and probably continued to the United Arab Emirates.
"The villagers had conflicting stories where some of them said they had heard the explosion when others denied it."
Source
http://timesofoman.com/article/67344/Oman/Science-/Meteor-like-unid...
Sep 13, 2015
M. Difato
Video showing a Fireball explode over Philippines
Meteor caught on cam over Quezon City Philippines September 16, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=n-JzwouirQM
Joje Vitug, a resident of Barangay Pasong Tamo in Quezon City, uploaded a video of a meteor lighting up the night skies.
"I was about to reach my house last night when I saw a meteor that seemed to explode in mid air and illuminated the sky. I paused before going to my garage because I was not sure of what I saw," Vitug said.
He was lucky that his vehicle's dashboard camera was able to capture the scene, which he considers a "once-in-a-lifetime event."
Vitug sent his video to ABS-CBN News on Thu, Sep 17.
Sources
http://manila.coconuts.co/2015/09/18/qc-residents-dashboard-camera-...
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/09/17/15/watch-meteo...
Sep 18, 2015
M. Difato
9/22/2015
Flash followed by tremor scares residents Palotina, Brazil
UpdatedSeptember 22nd, 2015- Fonte e Fotos: www.UbirataOnline.com.br
He spent a fireball that was beautiful to see, it was a huge ball the same. "Said a resident from the vicinity of La Salette Shrine. Palotina from city residents were startled late on Tuesday (22), after a flash in the sky, followed by a loud noise. In social networks some report seeing something bright falling from the sky, others report that after the loud bang the walls of the houses shook for a few seconds, you must say it was probably a meteorite.
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2015/09/palotina-brazil-l...;
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&a...;
Sep 23, 2015
Howard
Summary of fireball reports this week.
Fireball Over Southern Italy (Oct 3)
The bright glow in the sky attracted the attention of many people in South Italy.
The luminous trail crossed the sky lighting up for a few moments a large portion of the sky. The event was reported at around 21.15 today, October 3, 2015.
Reports have also been received from Molise, Sicily and Calabria.
Source (translated by Google)
http://www.inmeteo.net/blog/2015/10/03/ultimora-bolide-precipita-in...
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&a...;
Fireball Over Florida (Oct 2)
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2015/2456
Fireball Over Southeastern U.S. (Sep 30)
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2015/2446
Fireball Over Southern California (Sep 29)
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2015/2438
Fireball Over Mid-Western U.S (Sep 27)
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2015/2415
Oct 4, 2015
Howard
Bright Fireball Over S. California (Oct 13)
Reports from Ventura to San Diego counties described the same bright green flash.
AMS website has received over 50 reports on this startling phenomenon.
"I've seen many meteors and a couple of fireballs in my 45 years on earth, but this is the closest, brightest, longest-lasting, most dramatic one I have ever seen."
"I hope other people saw it. It was the biggest meteor I have ever seen."
"This was by far the brightest I have ever witnessed: Bright as lightening flash, and sound."
Sources
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2015/2597
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/10/13/many-southern-california-...
Oct 17, 2015
Howard
Fireball Over South Dakota (Oct 18)
Jason Rumpca of Beresford was driving to Sioux Falls from Pierre Sunday night when a bright streak lit up the sky.
“I could see glowing orange debris (and) fragments falling from it as it entered the atmosphere,” Rumpca said.
He wasn't the only one to catch a glimpse of the meteor-like flash, which prompted social media posts and calls to authorities.
The Charles Mix County Sheriff's Office received a call around 9:15 p.m. from a Lake Andes woman reporting a bright light in the sky, kind of like lightning. A nearby officer verified the sighting, according to the sheriff's office.
“(It) looked like a large ball of fire with pieces falling off as it got closer to the ground,” Bobby Mousseau, a police officer in Santee, Neb., said. “It disappeared well before the ground.”
The bright streak appeared larger than a typical falling star, according to Sioux Falls fire fighter Jim Powers.
“To me it looked green,” Powers said. “It was only there a second or two.”
“I have never seen anything like it in my life,” said Katie Christie.
Source
http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/local/2015/10/12/maybe-meteor...
Oct 21, 2015
Howard
Huge Fireball Sighted Over Western Finland (Oct 23)
Finland’s main Astronomical Association, Ursa, says that dozens of people reported spotting a light phenomenon in the western skies just before 8 pm Friday. According to the Swedish newspaper Expressen, the apparent meteor startled some residents in the Stockholm area.
Most of the Finnish sightings were from the Turku region, with others ranging from southernmost Hanko to Merikarvia on the Ostrobothnian coast and Mariehamn in the Åland Islands.
Those reporting observations said the object was seen in the west-south-west sky, close to the horizon.
The streak of light lasted for several seconds, says Jukka-Pekka Teitto, coordinator of Ursa’s Artjärvi observation centre in Orimattila.
“This object from space has mostly moved across Sweden,” he tells Yle.
Teitto says that while this incident was particularly dramatic, there are in fact observations of meteors or fireballs over Finland nearly every week. Bursting into flame at an altitude of about 100 kilometres, they can often be seen over a large area.
Depending on their size and angle of approach, most fireballs flicker out at an altitude of 50-60 kilometres. They usually burn up completely, leaving only ash, says Teitto.
“If it’s a bigger piece, some of it may strike the earth’s surface, in which case it’s called a meteorite,” he explains.
Teitto says that this meteor seems to have been exceptionally bright when passing over Sweden. Expressen says that the light phenomenon scared some residents of the Stockholm region, some of whom described it as resembling lightning.
Swedish broadcaster SVT reports many sightings in Kalmar, south-eastern Sweden, and on the island of Öland.
Source
http://yle.fi/uutiset/huge_fireball_sighted_over_western_finland/84...
Oct 24, 2015
Howard
Bright Fireball over Southern California (Oct 23)
Witness accounts:
"I was driving on the 5 North freeway when I saw it. It was huge and glowing. It was definitely not a shooting star."
"This thing was bright Green almost the same color as the traffic light. It was was very bright and I thought it was going to impact."
Sources
http://www.amsmeteors.org/2015/10/bright-fireball-over-california/
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2015/2635
Oct 24, 2015
jorge namour
A meteor crossed the sky last night Tucuman - ARGENTINA
Sunday October 25, 2015,
Past 23 Shooting Star went northbound. It would have fallen near Rosario de la Frontera.
http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/658592/sociedad/meteorito-cruzo-ano...
https://translate.google.com.ar/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=y&...
Tucuman were many who watched last night, with much astonishment, the passage of a shooting star northbound. Although there was no official confirmation, the body would have disintegrated on its entry into the atmosphere but in social networks claimed that had fallen near Rosario de la Frontera in Salta.
23 minutes after a strong flash in the sky tucumano caused a stir because of its brightness.
From Salta town there were reports of a loud explosion, which quickly was related to the phenomenon.
Oct 25, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/11/01/halloween_fireb...
Very Bright Fireball Over Europe Last Night
Nov. 1 2015 8:30 AM
Last night (Halloween, Oct. 31, 2015) at around 19:00 local time, a smallish bit of cosmic debris entered Earth’s atmosphere and burned up over central Europe. It was very bright, and because it happened in the early evening, a lot of people saw it. Twitter was lit up with reports.
It was seen from south Sweden, Germany, Poland, and as far east as Belarus! Impressive.
Pictures and video started getting posted to YouTube and Twitter as well. Here’s one of the best ones, taken from Poland, that shows the fireball quite well.
As you can see, it gets bright very rapidly, leaves a nice glowing train (the technical term for the trail of glowing debris), and then you see the still-hot solid meteoroid fall away. This is typical behavior for meteors. The solid part (called the meteoroid) is moving so rapidly — usually more a few dozen kilometers per second — it rams the air in front of it violently. A compressed gas heats up, and the shocked air can reach several thousand degrees. This heats the meteoroid up, causing it to glow.
The rush of air past it blows the melted material off (this is called ablation), and that leaves the glowing train. The meteoroid decelerates viciously, falls below the speed where it heats the air up, and then begins its long fall to the ground (assuming it’s big enough to reach the ground). It may glow for a few more seconds, but at 40 – 80 km high the air is quite cold, and it cools rapidly. It may break apart, raining meteorites down over some area, or big chunks might hit as well. That last part’s rare, though. Unlike movies, where they show small pieces hitting at high speed, the meteoroid(s) slows to terminal velocity, usually a couple of hundred kilometers per hour (or much slower for smaller pieces), for the rest of the trip down.
This video missed the first second or two of the European event, but you can see the sky light up blue-green from it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xaaxz0yWnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQ41XdsJRo
A lot of folks say it looked green to them, which means it may have been metallic; nickel glows green when heated to incandescence, and metallic meteoroids are generally mostly iron with several percent nickel. Magnesium can be blue-green as well, and that’s common in stony meteorites too.
On Twitter, I got a lot of people questioning if this was related to 2015 TB145, the 600-meter asteroid/dead comet that passed Earth yesterday. Almost certainly not; the direction it was moving doesn’t line up, and the difference in time makes it unlikely as well (remember, these things are moving at 20 – 40 kps, and TB145 passed us many hours earlier; they were separated by hundreds of thousands of kilometers at least).
This video, taken by the Polish Fireball Network, shows it moving roughly SE to NW; note the Big Dipper on the horizon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmPeoEbuhaM
As it happens, the annual Taurid meteor shower is ramping up right now. It’s possible this was related; that shower is known for its fireballs. The direction kinda sorta lines up, and the radiant of the shower (the part of the sky from which meteors appear to come) was just on or above the horizon at that time, so it’s possible. But if this fireball was in fact from a chunk of metal, it wasn’t related; Taurids come from an old comet, and have essentially no metal. Hopefully we’ll know more soon.
The final question is, how big was the meteoroid? It’s hard to tell. I’d guess it was less than a meter across, but that really is just a guess. Objects that small rarely survive re-entry intact, but again it depends on what they’re made of.
All in all, a nice example of a fireball, and a good reminder that our atmosphere does a great job protecting us from the 100 or so tons of material that hits us every day.
And, of course, a reminder to look up. You never know what you might see.
Nov 1, 2015
Howard
Bright Fireball Lights Up Thai Skies (Nov 2)
A large ball of fire was seen streaking across the night sky in several parts of the country, including Bangkok, on Monday.
The suspected meteor was seen in Bangkok, Chon Buri, Ratchaburi, Kanchanaburi, Khon Kaen, Nakhon Pathom, among other provinces, around 8.35pm, according to messages sent to the JS100 Twitter account.
"I could see it clearly in Chum Pphae district, Khon Kaen province. It's moving west," said @Libpon on her Twitter account sent to JS100.
"I saw it on the expressway on my way to the Rama II exit, too," said @Kinokim_knk on another account.
The Thai Astronomical Society said shortly after on the Facebook page after the incident that it was "expected" to be a meteor.
Source
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/751972/suspected-meteor-lig...
Nov 2, 2015
Howard
Fireball Over Northeast U.S. (Nov 1)
Witness reports:
"Leading edge of fireball was blue, trailing tail was yellow/orange. Very bright, Very low, moving nearly horizontal, east to west."
"Probably the most incredible thing I've seen in the sky."
"This is the second one I saw in 4 days. The other one was twice as bright as Jupiter that morning and was almost straight down at 5:50 AM EST."
"I have seen many spectacular shooting/falling stars but this was definitely something else!"
Source
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2015/2891
Nov 3, 2015
Howard
Fireballs Over Czech Republic (Nov 4)
"This is higher than usual activity," says meteor expert Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario.
Sources
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=119676
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php
Nov 5, 2015
M. Difato
A green fireball lit up the whole sky then burned out.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeenshire/746660/pict...
Posted November 9, 2015 by Andrew Douglas
An aurora-hunting north-east photographer has captured a stunning image of a meteorite fireball falling to earth.
Leigh-Ann Mitchell, from Ellon, had been out at the weekend scouring the night skies for any sign of the Northern Lights.
The self-proclaimed “aurora chaser” settled at Pitfour Estate in Mintlaw, where she thought she had the best chance of capturing the spectacular light show.
But the 40-year-old amateur snapper got more than she bargained for when she captured the moment a fireball from the Taurid meteor shower fell from the sky, combined with the heavenly aurora glow.
The shower is notorious for producing fireball flares, and experts said this year would be the best chance to witness them yet.
Mrs Mitchell’s photograph has been viewed thousands of times since it was taken in the very early hours of Saturday morning, and shared across social media in every corner of the globe.
Meteorologists across the world have also praised the stunning image, saying she captured a once-in-a-lifetime event.
She said it was a phenomenon she never expected to see, and that she had simply been in the right place at the right time.
“I’m a keen aurora chaser so I’m out with the camera at any opportunity,” she explained.
“I often visit Pitfour during the day as it’s a wonderful place with the camera. I checked recently with my phone compass what angle north would be over the lake with an aurora shot in mind.
“Myself and my husband are radio amateurs so we follow the space weather sites online and keep a keen eye on the data.
“Friday and Saturday were looking good so we headed up to Pitfour around 8.30pm, but nothing exciting was happening so we headed back home.
“More data came through around midnight so we headed back up around 12.30am to get some good colour from the aurora.
“I started shooting and from nowhere a bright streak of light came down over the lake in front of us and a green fireball lit up the whole sky then burned out.
“Thank goodness the camera was shooting a 30 second exposure and captured the shot.
“I guess we were in the right place at the right time.”
* Unable to post picture due to copyright, see photo here http://www.sott.net/image/s14/280597/full/12236458_1020634424218395...
Nov 11, 2015
Howard
November Fireball Reports Triple in 2015 (Nov 11)
When we look at significant events with 10 or more witnesses each, from October 30th – November 10th 2015, the AMS cataloged 44 events versus 14 in the same time period of 2014 — that is a 3 times increase year over year.
Its clear in the daily fireball reports graph above, that daily witness reports of fireball events have more than doubled, and stayed strong, since the beginning of the November.
Source
http://www.amsmeteors.org/2015/11/november-2015-fireball-surge/
Nov 11, 2015
Scott
Security Camera Films Meteor Streaking Across Ohio Sky
The spectacular display was seen from as far away as Wisconsin, Missouri and Michigan.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ohio-fireball-meteor_56516f6ce4...
... A meteor streaked across the Ohio night sky on Thursday -- and the spectacular sight was caught on surveillance camera.
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Some 77 people have reported seeing the same fireball to the American Meteor Society, according to the organization's website.
It was spotted across the Ohio area, with other sightings coming from as far away as Missouri, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Cincinnati Observatory's Dean Regas, who saw the meteor from his backyard, told WLWT it was "one of the brightest I have ever seen."
...
This latest fireball came the night after what had been expected to be the peak of the annual mid-November Leonid meteor shower.
The shower is made up of tiny sand-sized bits of debris and dust that crumble off the Tempel-Tuttle comet as it passes the Earth. The particles ignite when they hit our atmosphere, and usually put on quite a show.
This year's Leonid shower -- which was predicted to peak in the early hours of Tuesday and Wednesday morning -- was quieter than usual, however, with only an estimated 15 meteors streaking across the sky per hour, according to ABC News.
Nov 22, 2015
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-34963892
Fireball spotted in skies above Armagh
A fireball was seen in the sky above Armagh on Sunday evening.
Mark Bailey, director at Armagh Observatory, said it could be seen from Letterkenny and Longford in the Republic as well as Scotland and Northern Ireland.
A fireball is a fragment of an asteroid or comet which emits a light as it burns up in the earth's atmosphere.
Mr Bailey said that the observatory received more than 30 submissions from the public detailing the sightings.
"It's very interesting to see what people do report," he said. "It's mostly people who have never seen such a bright object in the sky."
Mr Bailey said the reports from the public help the observatory to pinpoint the trajectory of the fireball.
Dec 1, 2015
M. Difato
Fireball Caught Live on WPRI-TV Sunday Morning December 6, 2015
http://wpri.com/blog/2015/12/06/fireball-caught-live-on-wpri-tv-sun...
It was more a matter of luck than anything else, but it was an amazing 1-2seconds caught live on television Sunday morning at about 8:17AM. A fireball raced across the deep blue sky over Providence, and I watched it as it happened. Look just above the smoke stack about 3 seconds into the video. To see the fireball, enlarge the video to fill your screen.
Our Hurricane Barrier Cam was pointed to the west. For perspective, the I-Way Bridge is on the right, Rhode Island and Hasbro Children’s Hospitals are in the center of the screen. I circled the streak of light in red below…you can see it behind the exhaust from the smoke stack. In the inset, you can see the pieces of the burning debris that fell off of the object.
The fireball was very bright because I saw it within that bright blue sky. If the sky was dark, thousands of people would have likely seen it. If you saw it, let me know. I’d love to know what you saw.
As the meteor fell through the sky, it burned up due to friction with the Earth’s atmosphere. What was the object? That part is unknown. It appeared to be moving from the northeast into the west. That’s not a typical direction for a piece of space rock to create a ‘shooting star’. It could have been a piece of space debris. We’ll likely never know. There is no indication the object hit the Earth. -Meteorologist T.J. Del Santo
Dec 9, 2015
Mark
Fireball lights up the sky above Nova Scotia
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/fireball-lights-up-t...
Two fireballs lit up the sky over Nova Scotia on Sunday around 6 p.m., just as Boschat was setting up his camera and telescope from his home in Halifax, the CBC reports.
He was able to capture an image of the streaks, which were only visible in the sky for about 10 seconds, moments before they vanished out of sight.
Boschat, who is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, emailed the picture to the group. One of the members works at NASA's Ames Research Centre and confirmed the streaks of light were the first stage of an Atlas V rocket that was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida to send the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
Boschat said the fireballs may have looked like meteors to a casual observer, but "you'd never see fireballs travelling sort of parallel to each other, even during a meteor shower," he told the CBC.
"I was pretty happy, kind of lucky," he said of his photograph.
Dec 9, 2015
M. Difato
Meteor fireball leaves huge plume as it streaks across Swedish skies - 14th December 2015
Raw video of something in the sky over Stockholm, Sweden! (Ball of fire? Jet stream?) Will update with more information if it becomes available. Video taken on 2015-12-14 in Stockholm, Sweden. *** Excuse the shakiness of the video, I was not expecting to see this 'fireball' at all and was quite taken by surprise.
Time of occurrence: around 14:36 (02:36 PM)
Source:
http://www.sott.net/article/308508-Meteor-fireball-leaves-huge-plum...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N2B7Z1xB3E
Posted kootallica Youtube Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:00 UTC
Dec 15, 2015
Mark
Fireball streaks across sky above greater Chattanooga area
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/dec/18/fireball...
All six NASA sky meteor cameras in the region picked up the meteor at an altitude of 50 miles above the town of McDonough, NASA said. From its brightness, it is estimated that this piece of an asteroid weighed at least 150 pounds and was over 16 inches in diameter.
"It entered the atmosphere at a steep angle (16 degrees from vertical) and moved almost due south at a speed of 29,000 miles per hour," NASA stated.
The NASA cameras tracked it to an altitude of 17 miles above the town of Locust Grove, where it had slowed to a speed of 9000 miles per hour, at which point the meteor ceased producing light by burning up.
It is possible that fragments of the object survived to reach the ground as meteorites; If so, they are located in Henry County south of Locust Grove, or in the counties adjacent to this area.
Dec 19, 2015
Howard
Fireball Over Southwest U.S. (Dec 22)
“It looked like a comet because it changed colors. Green to red. It was really cool,” stated Todd N Zabrina Martin.
“It looked like something entering the atmosphere and breaking up, reminded me of when the space shuttle burned up,” stated Jim Pryor.
Early unconfirmed reports are describing the “object” as a meteor that was seen over several states including Nevada and California.
As of 6:30 P.M., there has been no official confirmation on what exactly the object was.
Source
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Mysterious-Light-Seen-in-Ni...
http://abc7news.com/news/mysterious-bright-light-seen-in-sky-on-wes...
http://www.vvng.com/strange-fireball-light-up-the-sky-did-you-see-it/
Dec 23, 2015
Mark
2015 ended with a big bang as a bright fireball exploded in the sky over Spain.
http://strangesounds.org/2016/01/giant-fireball-explodes-over-spain...
This bright fireball got brighter than the full Moon.
The tremendeous meteor was apparently accompanied by a strong boom as reported by many witnesses in central and northern Spain – from Aragon, Balearic Islands, Valencia, Madrid, Navarra, Basque Country to Murcia.
Jan 3, 2016
Starr DiGiacomo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZpEVprMbQA
Jan 10, 2016
M. Difato
Mysterious fireball spotted in north Georgia sky Monday
Posted: 4:09 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016 http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/mysterious-fireball-spotted-no...
SNELLVILLE, Ga. — People all across the metro Atlanta area reported seeing a large fireball streak through the sky Monday afternoon over Snellville and Winder.
Several WSB-TV viewers submitted images and video to Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist Glenn Burns of the object, which was spotted around 3:45 p.m.
Okay...so we have a mystery on our hands. I know some people who know some people...we will find out something soon. I...Posted by Glenn Burns on Monday, January 11, 2016
Glenn spoke to officials at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, who say they believe the mysterious fireball is space debris, but so far, no one has officially determined what it was.
might have been space debris. Others say moving too slowly...Posted by Glenn Burns on Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Glenn is on the case. Check back later to see if we’ve solved this mystery and send us your pictures.
Here is the video of this object seen over Snellville at 3:45 this afternoon. No sound was observed. This was submitted by one of our FB friends.Posted by Glenn Burns on Monday, January 11, 2016
Jan 13, 2016
Starr DiGiacomo
http://yle.fi/uutiset/bright_fireball_lights_up_night_skies_of_finl...
24.1.2016 11:13 | updated 24.1.2016 11:33
Bright fireball lights up night skies of Finland
There were many of reports of a large, bright fireball that lit up skies over towns across southern Finland at about 8 pm on Saturday. Some eyewitnesses of the phenomenon said it looked like lightning or a camera flash. Still others reported they also heard a thunder-like rumbling afterwards.
The website of astronomy magazine Tähdet ja avaruus, which uses the assistance of astronomers from across Finland, says that there were some 200 reports of sightings of a bright flash of light in the dark skies of southern and western areas at about 8 pm Saturday.
According to Tähdet ja avaruus the flashing light was likely a meteorite but said they had not yet seen Saturday night's incident captured in a photograph.
If the suspected meteorite was photographed, it might be possible to determine its trajectory and possibly learn if the object may have reached the Earth's surface.
Jan 25, 2016
M. Difato
Major Daylight Fireball Over Southeastern US – January, 24th 2016
The American Meteor Society has received over 50 reports of an extremely bright daylight fireball on Sunday, Janu.... It was observed over a large portion of the north of Florida and south of Georgia. This event occurred near 10:25am ET time or 15:25 Universal Time.
Marc Fries (Research Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute located in Tucson, AZ – NASA) already stated it is a new meteorite fall! The estimated trajectory generated by Mike Hankey (AMS Operations Manager) for this event is “an absolute, spot-on bullseye [sic]” with the radar imagery obtained by NASA. More details will be provided as information arrives.
Below is the heat map of the witnesses and the estimated ground trajectory of this event.
Source: http://www.amsmeteors.org/2016/01/major-daylight-fireball-over-sout...
Jan 25, 2016
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.sott.net/article/310952-Fireball-meteor-disintegrates-ov...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCqqEp1A91A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjYKBZ3CjbI
Fireball meteor disintegrates over Lviv, Ukraine
The sky of the largest city in western Ukraine was visited by a disintegrating bright white fireball on January 23, 2016, local time.
The entry of this space rock must have been impressive and has most probably created a loud sonic boom.
Jan 25, 2016
M. Difato
A bright fireball streaked across the skies Saturday evening, prompting over 700 reports to the American Meteor Society.
The fireball was seen from South Carolina to New England around 6:15 pm eastern time.
In Falls Church, Virginia, Alex Salvador captured the meteor’s flight on his car dash cam.
People described it as yellow, orange and white, and noted it seemed to break apart or explode toward the end.
“Surprised me how low slow and bright whatever it was ..was,” a Fredericksburg resident wrote on the meteor society’s sightings page. “It was lower than the moon but seemed bright enough (behind trees even) to be as bright as the moon …”
“Seeing this was almost frightening, as it was so bright and took up 3/4 of the sky,” a Vienna resident wrote. “I physically saw it break into two and fizzle out as it disappeared. It was the most incredible thing I have ever seen.”
http://www.insidenova.com/headlines/video-fireball-flashes-through-...
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/340
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Possible-Fireball-Seen-in-S...
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/browse_reports?event=PEN...
Jan 31, 2016
Howard
Fireball Over Northern U.S. (Feb 1)
The fireball was seen primarily from Wisconsin and Michigan but witnesses from Ilinois, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ontario (Canada) also reported seeing the fireball.
Sources
http://www.amsmeteors.org/2016/02/earth-grazing-fireball-over-wisco...
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/395
Feb 3, 2016
lonne rey
One dies as ‘meteorite’ falls in Vellore
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/one-dies-as-meteorite-f...
One person was killed and three others were injured when an object believed to a meteorite fell on the campus of a private engineering college near Natrampalli in Vellore district in northern Tamil Nadu early on Saturday.
According to police sources, a loud blast was heard near a water tank shortly after midnight
Window panes and wind screens of buses parked nearby and the water tank were broken in the impact of the blast. A crater was formed at the site of blast.
Feb 7, 2016
Howard
Fireball Over Saudi Arabia (Feb 9)
The large object can be seen in the footage which was captured on a mobile phone from a moving car.
Many residents captured the object with their mobile phones. Well-known Saudi astronomer Khaled Al Zuaq says he believes it was a meteor.
“The object appeared to be a large meteor which was seen crossing the Saudi skies at around 10.30 pm,” he said.
Just this week a man died after being "hit by a meteorite" in India.
He was the first person to die in over 200 years by being hit by a rock falling from space.
Sources
http://www.emirates247.com/news/region/video-meteor-seen-in-saudi-s...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/meteor-caught-camera-zoomin...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/first-man-killed-meteorite-...
Feb 10, 2016
Howard
Exploding Fireball Over Queensland Australia (Feb 10)
People from across Queensland have taken to social media to describe what they say was a bright light accompanied by a boom sound.
"Was rumbling for a good five minutes before I went outside," said Bundaberg's Jamie-lee Doorey.
"Was walking back from shed, heard something from the sky as I looked up something seemed to have exploded, sparks went in three different directions.
"I've seen plenty shooting stars, this was not one, or it was huge. The rumbling continued for a couple of minutes, nothing since."
Margie Ryan, also from Bundaberg, said she was left puzzled by the sighting.
"Was inside. Saw bright flash outside. About one minute later, heard a loud bang like a clap of thunder which shook the house a bit," she said.
"Checked the BoM, no storm, clear sky, so posted on Facebook."
Gladstone's Rory Henricks said he thought he saw a plane in the sky "shooting fireworks out of its rear".
He said at 9.20pm on Tuesday, he was riding from town to Calliope and about halfway saw the object for a second.
"Nothing, then several circular firework explosions in a line behind it, then nothing again," he said.
"I flipped my visor up to have a look around, I saw some pilot lights but lost track of it.
"Was moving really fast and appeared ot have jet engines under each wing.
"I'm pretty cynical but if it wasn't a UFO it seems like someone was trying to appear like one."
Charlene Kelly Maree said she heard people had seen the object in Gladstone, while Carissa Less Hansen said she witnessed it.
"Saw it in Maryborough, Queensland, but didn't hear the noise," she said.
Dell Holdings said she saw a flash but thought it was lightening.
"It woke me from my sleep, no noise," she said.
Alyssa Gilbert said she saw a massive flash that was as quick as a flash on a camera.
"I jumped up and ran to the window thinking someone was in my yard," she said.
However, Peter Hurn believed it probably wasn't anything from another world.
"From what it sounds like it might have been a jet using flares," he said.
Kylie Campbell disagreed.
"There's no way it was a jet unless it exploded, it was a crazy site to see!" she said.
"I was actually out at Bucca, sitting on a rock in front of my car and my initial thought was someone had stolen my car; the light from it was blinding it was like someone turned my car lights on! Lit up everything!
"It was huge, it was breaking off into pieces as it was flying, you could see smaller debris light up behind it.
"Never seen anything like it before!"
Chanelle Bamblett said she thought it looked like a flare.
Jason Mccallum said he saw strange things in the sky last week.
"I didn't see last night's but on Wednesday I seen a bright white light go upwards in the sky and seconds later a green light going across the sky with what looked to be sparks coming off it and was much larger than the white light," he said.
Rachel Linda Beris Petersen took to Bundaberg Forum to ask if anyone heard loud bangs around West Bundaberg about 2am Wednesday.
"(They) sounded like gunshot noises," she said.
Tracy Simpson said she heard similar bangs early in the morning at Kepnock the night before - though it's not sure if these sounds were related to the boom.
Source
http://www.news-mail.com.au/news/qld-homes-shaken-strange-bright-li...
Feb 11, 2016
Howard
Daytime Fireball Over Southern California (Feb 11)
“I saw it from Kearny Mesa traveling southeast looking like it was heading towards the North Park area,” according to San Diego resident Karl Bunch.
“The color was white at the tip and a day-glow light green color in the middle with a white tail.”
Another eyewitnesses included Francis French, education director at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park. He saw the meteor while he was driving to work on state Route 94.
“The front of the light looked like the arc of a welder’s torch; it was blue and incredibly bright,” he said. “And it had a yellowish tail that was very textured.”
Howard McManus said, "It was spectacular. Bright green like a welder’s arc with a long tail and relatively slow-moving. It fragmented into several pieces as it died. They looked like little sparks. I looked at my watch as I was going to report it. It was 6:37am. The sky was starting to get light.”
Above is a video from Jason Anderson (© All rights reserved) who caught the fireball on his dashcam. The fireball appears on the right side. The time stamp is 10 minutes fast.
Sources
http://www.amsmeteors.org/2016/02/brigt-fireball-over-socal-morning...
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/546
http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/02/11/blue-green-fireball-reported-acr...
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/feb/11/mysterious-lig...
Feb 12, 2016
Howard
Valentine’s Day Fireball Over Northeastern US (Feb 14)
Sources
http://www.amsmeteors.org/2016/02/valentines-day-fireball-streaks-o...
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/583
Feb 15, 2016
Howard
Green Fireball Streaks across East Coast Sky (Feb 16)
The fireball was seen from New Jersey and Delaware into southern Virginia around 7:10 p.m. People reported it as green and bright.
It was the third fireball seen in recent weeks in the Mid-Atlantic skies.
Fireballs were reported on Valentines Day and on Jan. 30, prompting hundreds of people along the east coast to report their experience on AMS.
Sources
http://www.insidenova.com/headlines/green-fireball-streaks-across-e...
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/614
Feb 17, 2016
Howard
Bright Fireballs Observed over Southern France and Northern Italy (Feb 17)
Social networks lit up at around 6.20pm on Wednesday after hundreds of people caught sight of a fire ball passing through the sky.
"You're never going to believe me but I saw a meteorite, something on fire falling from the sky! "F**king hell I 'm in shock," said one eyewitness.
The same fireball also lit up skies over northern Italy, travelling east to west from Genoa to Venice at around 6.19pm.
“The object crossed the sky for about four seconds – I've never seen anything like it," the user, called Masdives, wrote. "This is a picture of the contrail I took, which was in the sky for about a minute.”
Sources
http://www.amsmeteors.org/2016/02/bright-fireball-over-southern-fra...
http://www.thelocal.fr/20160218/alarm-as-great-balls-of-fire-pass-o...
http://www.thelocal.it/20160218/falling-meteorite-lights-up-norther...
Feb 18, 2016
Howard
Daytime Fireball Explodes Over Melbourne, Australia (Jan 27)
The video, posted to YouTube by Overwatch Security, features body camera footage filmed by a worker for the firm as he walked on a Victoria beach on a stormy day.
The man faces out toward the water as the meteor lights up the sky and streaks down toward the water.
The lights are quickly followed by the sound of the object passing through the air toward the water.
The video's time-stamp indicates it was filmed just after 8 p.m. Jan. 27.
"While testing one of our Body Cameras on a stormy day a meteor hit the bay directly in front of me just as I sat down. The sound was insanely loud but only lasted for a second or two. Scary stuff, I was literally lost for words. Hopefully no boats were hit!" the man wrote in the video's description.
Source
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/02/19/Australian-man-catches-close...
Feb 19, 2016
Scott
Fireball observed over Morocco on 19 Feb. 2016, at 19h 06 m UT.
The event was recorded by several meteor observing stations operated by the University of Huelva in Spain.
https://youtu.be/4M_QstCzAAY
Red (downward pointing) arrow indicates path of fireball
Feb 20, 2016
jorge namour
The meteors Valentine and that exploded over the Atlantic Ocean on February 6
A large meteor exploded Atlantic Ocean February 6, 2016
Of MeteoWeb Drafting - February 21, 2016
http://www.meteoweb.eu/2016/02/le-meteore-di-san-valentino-e-quella...
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=y&...
A meteor about 2-8 meters exploded bove the South Atlantic Ocean, at 13:55:09 UT (15:55 to Italian), in broad daylight, precisely at 30.4 ° south latitude and 25.5 ° west
longitude, between South American continent and the African (the news or the data can be found in this link http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/fireball/
It is not the first time that an asteroid falls to these latitudes always in the Atlantic Ocean, such an event exactly happened on January 2, 2014. A small object of about 3m impacted only a day after its discovery, fortunately uninhabited environment (in 'water). We remember the event of the Chelyabinsk meteor in Russia: February 15, 2013 a meteor about 19 meters
(according to the article by Borovička and co-authors of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016) that without impact, but only exploding in the air, caused many wounded (more than a thousand), a bad post-Valentine's Day gift for that year Russians .L'energia released was equal to 500 kT of TNT (always from the article of Borovička), roughly 30 times more powerful the Little Boy atomic bomb released at Hiroshima, but ortunately exploded, equal to or more than 23 km high
This meteor February 6, pre-Valentine's Day, to be in the theme, it was detected detonated about 31 km height according to figures provided by the page on the race cars JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in Pasadena (USA) with a speed d 'impact of about 16 km / s
A video, kindly provided for this paper, DL Clark performed by member (and fellow author of this article) the "Canadian university Meteor group" "University of Western
Ontario", explains very well the impact visually dynamic
http://physics.uwo.ca/~dclark56/Miscellaneous/Ext/20160206-135509.avi
The released energy was calculated 13 kT of TNT (6853 GJ), about 50 times less than in Chelyabinsk, but always considerable energy because the bolids on average explode with less energy to 1 kT TNT (at least for detected meteors in the last 10 years in short, it comes to an energy equal to that released by the atomic bombs, but without radiation.
If it had exploded over a city as happened in Chelyabinsk at the same height, this meteor would have caused probabilmete a dozen or a hundred injured.
For those who love the radio signals, here is the sound of the meteor radar of 'US Air Force Space Surveillance Radar in Texas:
Feb 23, 2016
M. Difato
http://www.sott.net/article/312976-Very-bright-meteor-fireball-seen...
Very bright fireball over Spain on Tuesday, 23 Feb. 2016 at 5h54m UT (6h54m local time). The event was brighter than the full Moon and exhibited several explosions. This footage was recorded by the meteor observing station operated by the University of Huelva at La Hita astronomical observatory (Toledo).
Feb 24, 2016
Howard
Fireball Over France (Feb 25)
The fireball travelled over the east of France between Reims and Nancy.
Social media was buzzing with comments from people who witnessed the fiery spectacle.
Frederick R said: “I looked out of my office window while I was on a call and clearly saw a fireball with a tail light. What struck me was that it seemed very close to the ground.”
The meteor appears to have started its path above Chalons-en-Champagne, heading north-east and disappearing between Marn, Meuse and Brussels.
Sources
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/732
http://www.wort.lu/en/luxembourg/thursday-morning-meteor-spotted-ov...
Feb 26, 2016
Scott
(2/25/16) Interior Alaska residents from Fort Yukon to Eielson Air Force Base reported seeing a fireball overhead Wednesday about 7 p.m.
The fireball, which was captured on the Geophysical Institute's All-Sky camera, flashed briefly into view and disappeared. One resident described it as a green flash with a long tail. Others said the tail also contained orange and red fragments. It was visible for only seconds, they told the American Meteor Society...
...Hampton said the meteor was probably about 50 or 60 miles above the ground – about where the lower edges of the aurora form — when it burned up. At that altitude, it could be seen from a long way away, he said.
...He estimated it was no larger than a pea.
https://www.facebook.com/UAF.GI/videos/940909005986681/
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/interior-alaska-residents-...
Feb 26, 2016
Howard
Third Fireball Over Spain in 3 Weeks (Feb 24)
The footage from the Calar Alto Observatory shows the fireball over the southern Spanish city of Cordoba.
The observatory doesn't know if this fireball has any relation with two others that have crossed the Spanish skies on Feb 23 and earlier in the month.
According to a report from NASA, an exceptionally bright meteor likely exploded over the South Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 6.
Source
http://www.wptv.com/news/science-tech/video-fireball-lights-up-skie...
Feb 27, 2016
lonne rey
Loud bang and white lights reported in skies over Scotland
Police in Aberdeen and Inverness say they have been receiving a large number of calls about a big, bright flash seen in the sky over Scotland.
People have taken to social media to report seeing a blue, white or green light, with some saying they also heard a rumbling sound.
There is speculation it could have been a meteor or may have been a sonic boom.
Some reports suggested the light may have been seen as far south as Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders.
Jenni Morrison captured dash-cam footage of the flash as she drove on the A944 between Westhill in Aberdeenshire at about 18:45.
She said: "It was absolutely weird. The sky lit up."
Garry J Hunter contacted BBC Scotland to say he had seen the flash over Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire. He described it as "a huge fireball-like trail across the sky, which seemed to then explode and light up the whole sky".
Val Hamilton from Nethy Bridge said she saw the sky light up south west of Aviemore at about 18:45.
"I saw a white ball with a tail passing through the sky at great speed. It was very dramatic," she said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-3568...
http://news.stv.tv/north/1344710-loud-bang-and-white-lights-reporte...
A large white light and rumbling "bang" have been reported in the skies over the north east of Scotland, prompting speculation they may have been caused by a meteor.
Reports came in of a large white flash in the sky around 7pm on Monday, with Twitter users across the Highlands, Aberdeenshire and Perth saying they had witnessed the phenomenon.
Some people have reported feeling buildings shake as a result of the bang.
STV News weather presenter Sean Batty said the flash appeared to be from a meteor burning up in the atmosphere, lighting up a sheet of cloud.
Feb 29, 2016
Howard
Fireball Over Plymouth UK (Mar 1)
Ray Griffin, aged 70, was at home when he saw the "light in the sky" at about 10pm on Tuesday.
Mr Griffin, landlord of the Morley Arms in Plymstock, then heard what he describes as "gun fire" after the light disappeared.
The following day he was catching up with a pub regular, who described exactly the same turn of events.
Now Mr Griffin wants to get to the bottom of the strange sight.
"It was moving away from Laira Bridge," he recalls, "towards the A38. It looked like a bright orange ball of fire flying across the sky.
"It carried on going over and then disappeared, like somebody had just switched it off."
"There is quite a lot of meteor and NEO asteroid activity at the moment around the world. However, people only tend to pay attention when they see something for themselves or they are directly affected, and not until then."
Source
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Did-meteor-fly-Plymouth-Pub-landlor...
Mar 5, 2016