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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'We thought it would form a tornado': Brazilian city's fear of menacing dust cloud hanging over residents' homes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4804700/Brazilian-city-s-fe...
Residents of a Brazilian city were puzzled by a menacing yet eerily beautifully dust cloud hanging over their homes.
João Paulo Magalhães shared a video of the apocalyptic sight from a petrol station in Teixeira de Freitas, in the south east of the country, on Thursday evening.
As the sunset cast dazzling colours across the spectacle, many others took to social media to document the phenomenon, which looked like a meteorite that had stopped in its tracks.
João Paulo Magalhães shared this video of the apocalyptic sight from a petrol station. As the sunset cast dazzling colours across the spectacle, many others took to social media to document the phenomenon, which looked like a meteorite that had stopped in its tracks
Breathtaking: Many social media users posted photos on Instagram of the eerie yet beautiful sight in Teixeira de Freitas, in the south east of the country, on Thursday evening
But the residents' fears were soon assuaged as the cloud broke apart within five minutes, according to Mr Magalhães.
He said: 'It really looked like the entrance to a meteorite or something. I was scared too, we thought it would form a tornado.'
Instagram user irenny_ynneri added: 'The work of God is perfect.'
irlaneribeirolane, who also shared a photo of the befuddling sight, wrote a long caption about the religious significance of the cloud column.
Instagram user irenny_ynneri said: 'The work of God is perfect', while irlaneribeirolane, who also shared a photo of the sight, wrote about the religious significance of the cloud column
Burning bright: Residents' fears were assuaged as the cloud broke apart within five minutes
Local meteorologists were reported as saying the oddity was a dust cloud.
Earlier this month, residents of a town in northern China panicked as an enormous sandstorm engulfed their homes.
Footage taken in Ejina, Inner Mongolia, on August 2 shows the terrifying moment the small town was swallowed by the storm.
Aug 21, 2017
Scott
Huge meteor over Krugersdorp, South Africa (August 22, 2017)
Meteor appears 24 seconds into video: https://youtu.be/WlQo-NUNWNo?t=24s
A magnificent and clearly visible meteor over Krugersdorp, South Africa was spotted by Jan Breytenbach, who shared the footage on YouTube after capturing it with a dashcam while driving at about 7pm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlQo-NUNWNo
https://watchers.news/2017/08/23/large-fireball-recorded-over-kruge...
Aug 24, 2017
Scott
Fireball seen above the province of British Columbia and as far as Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as Washington, Idaho and Montana (September 5, 2017)
via GIPHY
Hundreds of people in Alberta and British Columbia [Canada] took to social media to report seeing a giant fireball illuminate the night sky late Monday.
Posting to Twitter from locations as far apart as Calgary and Hornby Island, B.C., the amazed stargazers described seeing a flaming object turn the sky an eerie green before fading into a dark orange as it approached the horizon.
The flash took place around 10:14 pm Pacific Time. Some described a loud bang that shook homes and high rise buildings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rde503gblO4
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteor-meteorite-bc-...
https://www.amsmeteors.org/2017/09/british-columbia-fireball-septem...
More videos:
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2017/3068
Sep 5, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
Events in 2017 3122-2017
IMO received 28 reports about a fireball seen over CA on Friday, September 8th 2017 around 04:28 UT.
Sep 9, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
Events in 2017 3140-2017
http://fireballs.imo.net/imo_view/event/2017/3140
IMO received 10 reports about a fireball seen over CA and NV on Monday, September 11th 2017 around 02:56 UT.
Sep 12, 2017
Scott
Unusually Bright Meteor Seen Over Iceland (September 13, 2017)
An unusually large and bright “shooting star” surprised many across Iceland last night.
The Stjörnufræðivefurinn Facebook page, which aims to promote interest in astronomy, has since provided more information about the meteor. It was spotted around 10:48 pm last night from the Reykjavík capital region, the West Fjords, North and South Iceland. According to the page, it likely entered the atmosphere at a speed of 20 km per second (12.4 miles per second), near the lower limit of velocity for meteors, and broke apart at a height of 20-30 km (12.4-18.6 miles). The page estimates the meteor was likely smaller than a tennis ball.
https://www.facebook.com/Stjornufraedivefurinn/videos/1015564045458...
http://icelandreview.com/news/2017/09/13/unusually-bright-meteor-se...
Sep 13, 2017
Scott
Bright fireball over Saint Petersburg, Russia (September 13, 2017)
A bright meteor streaked across the night sky over Saint Petersbug, Russia around 20:17 local time on September 11, 2017 and was observed and recorded by numerous witnesses.
The event lasted up to 7 seconds before the object disintegrated. According to preliminary data released by astronomers at the Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory near St. Petersburg the object was a bright meteor that completely burned in the atmosphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IS3N5dS0p4
https://watchers.news/2017/09/13/bright-fireball-over-saint-petersb...
Sep 16, 2017
Howard
Daytime Fireball Explodes over Mauritius and Reunion Island (Sep 14)
A very bright meteor fireball exploded over Mauritius and Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean on Thursday, September 14, 2017 around 18.00 pm local time.
A facebook report said, "I saw it was in Grand Bay. A meteor that enter Mauritius skies. A like a firework in full speed at about 6: 07 pm today." Some observers say the phenomenon was accompanied by a loud noise. After fragmenting the bolide left a smoky trail.
According to Thierry, a Reunion Island resident, "I saw a kind of ball passing in the sky, it lasted about 7 seconds, with a very straight trajectory ... It was multicolored in fact, it was a large ball of mauve color, blue , with a white, yellow streak." About four minutes after seeing this phenomenon, Thierry describes hearing an explosion before experiencing a tremor.
Source
https://www.sott.net/article/362150-Very-bright-daytime-meteor-fire...
Sep 17, 2017
Scott
Green fireball spotted over Montgomery, captured by doorbell camera (September 19, 2017)
Igniting as it hurtled into the atmosphere about 54 miles above Highway 84 in Conecuh County [Alabama], the fireball flew well over the speed limit at approximately 83,000 mph.
It was spotted by three NASA cameras located in Georgia and North Carolina at approximately 3 a.m., but perhaps the best footage was captured by one Montgomery resident's doorbell camera.
Video included in article:
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2017/09/19/green-fir...
Sep 21, 2017
Scott
Bright Fireball over Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (September 17, 2017)
The fireball was seen primarily from Maryland and Pennsylvania but was also seen from New York, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio and Massachusetts on September 17th, 2017 around 00:59am Eastern Time (04:59 Universal Time).
Eight witnesses near the Maryland/Pennsylvania/Delaware borders reported delayed boom sounds a few moments after the fall.
Charles Markarian caught the entire event on his dash cam from McAfee, New Jersey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7iR0kD6diw
https://www.amsmeteors.org/2017/09/bright-fireball-over-lancaster-c...
Sep 22, 2017
Howard
Fragmenting Fireball Over Netherlands (Sep 21)
AMS has received over 400 reports about a fireball seen over the Netherlands as well as neighbouring Belgium, France and Germany on Thursday around 19:00 UT.
From De Limburger, "Just after nine I saw a huge meteor above Heerlen," says Martijn Dassen. "A very fierce fireball that pulled a track behind. I did not hear any noise, but the sky lighted up. The fireball seemed to break in two before disappearing from my field of view behind the APG building."
The fragmenting meteor fireball was captured by the Leiden Observatory telescope.
Sources
https://www.sott.net/article/362590-Fragmenting-meteor-fireball-obs...
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2017/3301
Sep 23, 2017
Juan F Martinez
Incoming from #Planet_X tail. 4/10/17 - Woodstock, New Hampshire
http://www.concordmonitor.com/meteor-cause-fire-woodstock-nh-12912467
Oct 5, 2017
Juan F Martinez
Residents observing the full moon in China yesterday were stunned to see three meteorites exploding in the night sky.
The giant fireballs were said to flash across the sky over Shangri-La County in Yunnan Province, south-west China.
An eyewitness told MailOnline that two of the meteorites were small and one was large. Together, they lit up the sky for around five seconds.
Various clips on the Chinese social media, including one posted by Sina, show one meteorite turning into a great ball of fire as it quickly moved across the sky.
A worker at the Desti Youth Park Hostel in Shangri-La said he and many guests at the hostel saw the burning rocks last night at around 8pm.
The worker said they were sitting in the backyard of the hostel observing the full moon to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional festival in China symbolised by the round, full moon.
He said everyone was amazed when the rocks appeared in the sky.
The worker also said the meteorites landed in a small village around 40 kilometres (25 miles) outside of Shangri-La, as he heard.
Zhang Xingxiang, an expert from the Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, told China Central Television Station that the scene in the video looked like a bolide, which is a very bright meteor.
A local villager told the station that he heard a huge bang and felt the ground shaking. He said his pigs were so scared they ran out of the pigsty.
According to NASA, a fireball was observed yesterday at 12:07 GMT at 28 degrees north latitude and 99 degrees east longitude.
The time and location match with the reports provided by Chinese media and the eyewitness.
NASA reported that the fireball was observed at an altitude of 37 kilometres (23 miles) and it travelled at the great speed of 14.6 kilometres (nine miles) per second.
The explosion is said to have generated 0.54 kiloton of energy, the equivalent to detonating 540 tons of TNT.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4951178/Incredible-moment-m...
Oct 5, 2017
jorge namour
Watch: Meteors spotted flying across Dubai sky
Did you spot the bright lights travelling across Dubai skyline tonight?
October 17, 2017
http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/society/watch-meteors-spotted-flying-a...
Abu Dhabi: A meteor passed through the skies of Dubai on Monday evening, the Dubai Media Office said on its official Twitter handle.
Oct 17, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Fireball-Tri-State-Sky-NJ-NY-...
Fireball Streaks Across Tri-State Skies
Hundreds of people in the tri-state area saw a fireball streak across the afternoon sky Wednesday afternoon, according to one scientific group.
The American Meteor Society, a nonprofit astronomy group, said that at least 150 people from northern Maryland to eastern New Hampshire reported seeing the fireball -- which the group describes as a meteor brighter in the sky than Venus, one of the brightest celestial bodies in a night sky -- at about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The group, which also aggregates reported sightings on a map, said that it appeared that the fireball traveled from northeast to southwest before ending its flight hundreds of miles southeast of the Long Island shore.
One New Jersey resident posted a dashcam video to YouTube showing the fireball crossing the sky in Monmouth County. The footage shows a bright light streak across the sky before disappearing.
According to the American Meteor Society, several thousand meteors capable of creating fireballs pass into the Earth's atmosphere every day. But the organization said the vast majority of those meteors pass over uninhabited regions or are masked by daylight.
Published at 9:19 PM EDT on Oct 19, 2017
Video in link...........
Oct 21, 2017
M. Difato
They thought they saw a plane crashing in flames. It was a fireball, all right
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article180815611.html
Firefighters searched Bellingham Bay and the surrounding shoreline Tuesday night (Oct 24) after least two Whatcom County residents called 911, reporting they had seen an aircraft engulfed in flames crash into Bellingham Bay.
What people likely saw was a fireball, officials said – but one more properly called a meteor. Several Whatcom County residents saw it, too, but they recognized the blazing streak as a shooting star at 7:38 p.m. Tuesday.
“It was green, very bright, and super fast heading north,” said Bridgett Bullard of Blaine. “I saw it while I was getting onto I-5 northbound at Bakerview. My sister saw it and she was on Grandview in Birch Bay.”
Others were convinced they had seen an aircraft hit the water. Fire crews and other units were sent to investigate, including the fireboat Salish Star.
Air traffic control officials at Bellingham International Airport said they were not aware of any trouble with an aircraft and the FAA advised searchers the callers likely saw a meteor, said Bill Hewett, assistant chief of the Bellingham Fire Department.
“The tower said there were no missing or overdue aircraft and the FAA also advised us that they had reports of a meteor flaming out as far south as Tacoma,” Hewett said.
But as the crew of a Coast Guard boat from Bellingham prepared to join the search, officials at Sector Puget Sound headquarters in Seattle called to say it was meteor, said Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Nelson in Bellingham.
“There were a couple in the Puget Sound area that we received reports of,” Nelson said.
Jessica Hicks of Bellingham said she saw it on her way home from work.
“It appeared to go towards the northern part of the Semiahmoo area north of Birch Bay,” she said. “It was moving extremely fast, and had a bright green hue to it as it went below the tree line.”
Oct 26, 2017
Juan F Martinez
Meteorolog Danny Høgsholt reports this brilliant fireball in the northern skies over Gilleleje, Denmark on November 8 around 01:00 CET! Photo: Colin Abbott via TV 2 Vejret
https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23376408_211253304563...
Nov 9, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
http://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2017/4163
Events in 2017 4163-2017
We received 28 reports about a fireball seen over ME, NJ, VT, NH, NY, MA, CT, Ontario and Massachusetts on Wednesday, November 8th 2017 around 22:39 UT.
The trajectory displayed on the map and the KML file has been automatically computed based on all the witness reports and may not be the most optimized.
28 Witness Reports
Nov 10, 2017
Juan F Martinez
The first event took place at 16:48 UTC on November 14 over western Germany and, with over 1150 reports, it soon became the most reported fireball event from Europe since the AMS and the IMO launched the international version of the AMS fireball form.
The second event took place over France at 21:32 UTC (22:32 CET) on November 14 and was reported so far by 42 witnesses. The event has been caught by 10 cameras of the French Network (Toulouse, Angers, Talence, Sabres, Carcassonne, Aurillac, Hendaye, Saint Bonnet Vert, Coulounieix-Chamiers and Mauroux).
While excited fireball observers in Germany, France, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg and Italy were filling out their forms, two significant fireballs fell over the United States during the hours of 01:40 and 03:30 UTC. The first over Arizona and the second over Ohio.
In total the AMS/IMO collected, grouped and analyzed over 1320 witness reports spanning these 4 fireballs in the 10 hours that followed the events.
https://www.amsmeteors.org/2017/11/four-major-fireballs-within-ten-...
Nov 16, 2017
Scott
Incredible video as fireball turns night into bright daylight over northern Finland, sonic boom reported (November 16, 2017)
https://youtu.be/iDhoHpSJEQE?t=18s
A very bright fireball exploded over Lapland, northern Finland at 18:40 Eastern European Time on November 16, 2017.
This is at least the 5th major fireball event reported in Europe and the United States within 48 hours.
"Huge meteor burn up. I was sat about 10 metres to the left of the camera and felt a huge shockwave. It shook the cottage."
"It was captured on our live video stream, which is recording the sky 24/7, to catch northern lights on video. But tonight it got a bit more than that!" reported Tony Bateman.
According to local media reports, a sonic boom was associated with today's event.
https://watchers.news/2017/11/16/very-bright-fireball-explodes-over...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1575110/Incredible-vide...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDhoHpSJEQE
Nov 18, 2017
Scott
A bright fireball lit up the night sky Tuesday over eastern and western Japan (November 22, 2017)
Saitama Prefectural Police received several phone calls on their emergency hotline from people who saw a “blue light in the sky” around 9:30 p.m. in places such as the city of Kawagoe, north of Tokyo in Saitama Prefecture.
http://www.euronews.com/2017/11/22/fireball-lights-up-skies-over-japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM_7oVleiXs
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/22/national/bright-flash-...
Nov 23, 2017
Scott
Two separate fireballs seen in the skies over southern England, Wales and northern France (November 26, 2017)
The first fireball sighting was around 12midnight on Friday/Saturday (Nov. 24/25) with the majority of people viewing it in south or southeast England. A handful of those who reported seeing it said it produced a sound, with one describing it as a "rumble or multiple booms lasting 2-3 seconds".
The second fireball sighting came around 7am (Nov. 25) with most reports coming in from south and southwest England and South Wales.
12midnight fireball sighting:
7am fireball sighting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OjY9mkjaDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgxcsFcZ84Q
https://ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/fireballs/midnight-fireball/
https://news.sky.com/story/blazing-fireballs-seen-over-southern-eng...
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/huge-fireball-meteors-...
Nov 27, 2017
Juan F Martinez
A very bright fireball was seen streaking through the night sky over Pennsylvania at 08:07 UTC (03:07 EST) on Saturday, December 2, 2017. The event lasted several seconds and was accompanied by a sonic boom.
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 78 reports by 15:13 UTC. The event was seen from New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, West Virginia and New Hampshire.
Five people reported delayed sound associated with the event and four concurrent.
https://watchers.news/2017/12/02/very-bright-fireball-over-pennsylv...
https://youtu.be/A3uuHfgiMV0
Dec 3, 2017
Derrick Johnson
NASA confirms more than 60 reports of a fireball streaking across the Florida sky
NASA has confirmed dozens of eyewitness accounts in the Tampa Bay area of a fireball streaking across the sky on Tuesday evening.
Amateur video filmed by local residents shows the fireball dramatically appearing to drop out of the sky and then exploding behind cloud cover.
The national space agency said that it had received over 60 reports of the fireball from bay area residents, according to WFTS-TV.
NASA has confirmed dozens of eyewitness accounts in the Tampa Bay area of a fireball streaking across the sky on Tuesday evening
Amateur video filmed by local residents shows the fireball dramatically appearing to drop out of the sky and then exploding behind cloud cover
The national space agency said that it had received over 60 reports of the fireball from bay area residents
The American Meteor Society, a non-profit scientific organization that tracks sightings, said that it, too, received at least 55 reports of a fireball
Fireballs, a kind of meteor, are measured by their brightness on a scale known as apparent magnitude
A meteor is seen when comet debris or fragments of an asteroid strike the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed
The American Meteor Society, a non-profit scientific organization that tracks sightings, said that it, too, received at least 55 reports of a fireball.
Fireballs, a kind of meteor, are measured by their brightness on a scale known as apparent magnitude.
A meteor is seen when comet debris or fragments of an asteroid strike the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed.
Intense heat is created by the compression of the air ahead of the meteoroid, which usually causes the object to burn up in the atmosphere.
This creates the white 'shooting star' that we are all familiar with. This process also ionizes the atmosphere along the trail, making it possible to reflect radio waves.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5153797/Video-shows-firebal...
Dec 7, 2017
Scott
Astronomers: Meteor Not Part Of Geminid Meteor Shower (Dec 15, 2017)
A huge fireball streaked across the Denver [Colorado] sky Thursday night before exploding in a flash.
Thursday was the last day of peak viewing for the annual Geminid Meteor shower, but scientists do not believe the fireball was part of that. “It’s pretty bright and early for the Geminids. They peak at 2am this was 8 o’clock in Denver,” says Samantha Sands at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onQ9a6IsUwI
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2017/5113
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/12/15/astronomers-meteor-geminid-sh...
https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/15/denver-museum-of-nature-and-s...
Dec 20, 2017
Scott
Fireball lights up the night sky over Wisconsin's capital (Dec 19, 2017)
A bright meteor was observed in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois around 11:50pm on Monday night.
A rooftop webcam at University of Wisconsin-Madison captured the moment. Here's the camera view first at real speed then slowed down to 1/4 speed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmNHF-hLDRc
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2017/5311
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/12/19/Fireball-lights-up-the-nigh...
http://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2017/12/meteor.html
Dec 21, 2017
Scott
Meteor flashes across Finnish skies – more than 200 sightings (Dec 23, 2017)
An especially bright meteor streaked through the sky at around 8 pm on Friday. The Ursa Astronomical Association has logged more than 230 sightings of the southbound fireball.
A local Oulu, Finland man, Markku Paaso, managed to hastily record the meteor with his car dashboard video camera.
https://www.facebook.com/yleuutiset/videos/10156262313999767/
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/watch_meteor_flashes_across_finn...
Dec 24, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2017/5360
Events in 2017 5360-2017
AMS received 15 reports about a fireball seen over FL on Sunday, December 24th 2017 around 02:36 UT.
Dec 26, 2017
Scott
American Meteor Society received 142 reports about a fireball seen over Southern California around 5:14pm local time on December 24, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wysLHlmr52Q
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2017/5361
Dec 27, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
https://www.boston.com/weather/weather/2017/12/27/fireball-lights-u...
Fireball lights up social media, evening sky in New England
A fireball that lit up the evening sky is lighting up social media.
The bright streak Tuesday evening was seen in parts of New England, including southern Maine and New Hampshire.
The Mount Agamenticus Conservation Program webcam on Mount Agamenticus in York County captured the event at 5:52 p.m.
The National Weather Service in Gray tweeted, “Did you see a fireball or meteor just now?”
One social media user tweeted that her parents in Wakefield, New Hampshire, thought it was fireworks. Observers are being encouraged to report what they saw to the American Meteor Society website.
Like many locations across Maine last night, our office security camera captured the stunning meteor just before 6pm. One of our office employees was outside walking up the hill to launch the balloon when it happened. Although she's not in this video, it certainly surprised her!
Dec 28, 2017
Scott
Very large fireball meteor spotted over United Kingdom at 5:33pm local time on December 31, 2017
United Kingdom Meteor Observation Network received 700+ public reports. Many observers reported green colour and fragmentation at the end. The meteor was apparently moving quite slowly.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3eZiFzi420]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRtde0NePQ]
https://ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/fireballs/new-years-eve-fireball/
Jan 2, 2018
Juan F Martinez
Read more at: https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/watch-amazing-footage-shows...
Jan 2, 2018
Scott
American Meteor Society received over 400 reports about a fireball over Manitoba, Canada near the border with Minnesota around 9:25pm local time on January 4, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsCYSsNHmv4
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/43
Jan 10, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=1...
Spotted over Northland: 'Yellow fireball, tinged with green'
Residents of a Far North holiday hotspot were treated to a flashy display of space fireworks late last night.
Cable Bay resident Sheryl Day was out on her deck at about 10.45pm when she saw what she described as a "large, intense yellow fireball, tinged with green".
"Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something bright, and as I turned, this great thing, almost like a fireball, just whizzed by.
"While Day frequently sees meteors when gazing at the night sky, these were typically distant and fleeting.
But this object, she said, seemed much closer as it "wooshed down and then just disappeared".
Others from around the area had also noticed the late-night spectacle, she said.
University of Auckland head of physics Professor Richard Easther said meteors were a "reasonably common" sight in our night skies.
"You'd get one of those a day, somewhere on the planet. It's not something that's a huge deal in its own right, but it is an interesting thing."
The most notable such event in recent times was a fireball that lit up the night sky over the North Island on February 11, 2015, as it soared through the air at 20 times the speed of a bullet.
Jan 16, 2018
M. Difato
VIEW: Map shows people across massive area witnessed bright light, loud explosion
Hundreds of reports flood in across Metro Detroit
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/view-map-shows-people-across-ma...
DETROIT - The International Meteor Organization has received reports across the Midwest about a bright light and loud explosion.
A map posted on the organization's website shows several reports throughout Metro Detroit. There are also reports in West Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois..."
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Meteor flash over SE Michigan (Youtube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=v_gubdRMFAE
Michigan Meteor Jan 16 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvFcY9rTPx8
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RAW: Fireball from likely meteor lights up sky
http://www.mankatofreepress.com/cnhi_network/raw-fireball-from-like...
(RNN) - People in southern Michigan reported a bright light in the night sky, with some reports of shaking buildings.
The fireball was seen in the skies, making a loud sound at about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday in the metro Detroit area, according to the Detroit Free Press.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the boom from the likely meteor registered a 2.0 in magnitude about 7 kilometers from Saint Clair Shores, MI.
The phenomenon was also seen across several states from Wisconsin to Ohio and up into southwestern Ontario, Canada, WOOD reported.
Images of the object were captured above Windsor, Ontario.
The National Weather Service office in Detroit confirmed Tuesday night that the flash was likely a meteor.
"We continue to monitor feeds from astronomical agencies for official confirmation of a meteor," the NWS said.
NASA said a satellite that monitors lightning might have detected the fireball from the likely meteor.
The response to the possible meteor overwhelmed the site of the American Meteor Society.
Ingham County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Managment asked the public in a Facebook post to quit calling 911 about what was likely a fireball from a meteor.
People took to social media to share what they saw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=pUBAK_lhuAI
Jan 17, 2018
Howard
AMS Reports Significant Increase of Fireball Events Since 2010 (Jan 20)
A graphic representation shows a nearly linear increase in the number of fireballs reported since 2010.
While it is true that smart phone and cell phone (with camera) ownership has increased over the past 10 years or so, this increase does not account for the increase over the same time period in reports of such sightings made directly to local law enforcement (camera phone ownership has no impact on a person's ability or inclination to report such events to the police). The camera phone ownership increase is therefore correlated with wider reporting on such events, not with the frequency of the events themselves.
Another interesting aspect of this is the psychological effect these kinds of events are having on people. Taking their lead from 'experts' who explain this as being due to 'increased observation technologies' - namely cameras and other sensors - people have normalized the meteor fireball phenomenon, absorbing it into their reality as if it was always there. Routinely described in the press as a 'once in a lifetime event', the prevalence of repeated observations of meteor fireballs over the same geographic area, sometimes just months apart, has forced a shift in the narrative towards emphasizing the harmless nature of meteors exploding overhead.
Source
https://www.sott.net/article/374741-Michigan-Meteor-Event-Fireball-...
Jan 21, 2018
Scott
American Meteor Society received over 30 reports of a fireball seen over Colorado around 6:09am local time on Tuesday, January 16th, 2018.
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American Meteor Society report
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/177
Jan 22, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.sherwoodparknews.com/2018/01/22/meteor-seen-over-strathc...
Meteor seen over Strathcona County
Monday, January 22, 2018 12:57:15 MST PM
Experts are hoping for the public’s helping in tracking down meteor fragments after a mysterious fireball was seen tumbling from the sky in Strathcona County and the surrounding region.
The strange sighting sparked a storm on Twitter on Wednesday, Jan. 17.
As the events unfolded, researchers were asking anyone with a security camera or dashcam footage, or anyone who may have witnessed the falling ball of light, to come forward in an effort to track down the meteor fragments.
“I saw a small fireball in the sky on the way home tonight! I was on (the southeast) corner of the Henday, and it was (northeast) of where I was — somewhere in Strathcona County. First time ever seeing one, it was awesome,” Tweeted Derek, @Corath on Twitter.
Reports suggest the meteor broke up around 5:22 p.m. and that, despite being seen from Strathcona County, it may have fallen north of Lac La Biche. However, researchers will need additional information, according to Frank Florian, director of planetarium and space sciences at Edmonton’s Telus World of Science.
Florian said a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada saw the fireball and said that, at peak brightness, it was as bright as a full moon.
The big “flash” suggests the meteor broke into pieces, he explained, adding the size of fragments would depend on the size of the “parent body” of the meteor, as well as what the rock is made of.
There are stony, iron and stony-iron meteorites. Bigger rocks will be further downrange because they have more inertia, Florian said.
“Wintertime is a good time to find little black pieces of rock,” he added, noting they will show up against the snow.
The University of Alberta recently installed an all-sky camera with colleagues at Athabasca University, which — barring light pollution — may have captured the space rock, meteorite expert Chris Herd said.
“People will always, always say, ‘Oh, it fell just over there,’ ” Herd said. “It’s an optical illusion. It could be hundreds of kilometres away.”
In 2008, when a bright fireball was spotted from Strathcona County, Herd and others found meteor fragments near Lloydminster.
Reports of the meteor brightening and breaking up into pieces is “fairly characteristic” of a fireball, said Herd.
He suggested reporting any sightings to the American Meteor Society at www.amsmeteors.org, and the Meteorites and Impacts Advisory Committee at www.uqac.ca.
Florian can also be contacted at the Telus World of Science at 780-452-9100, extension 2295, or by e-mailing fflorian@twose.ca
Florian said meteorites usually contain iron, so they will be attracted to magnets. They will have a black crust and will look metallic inside. Stony meteorites are usually a dark grey, while a nickel-iron meteorite has metal inside and may take on a rusty appearance.
A spokesperson for Edmonton Fire Rescue Services said crews were called out for reports of a fireball, but did not find a fire and were unable to identify the cause of the sightings.
In September 2017, the American Meteor Society received 90 reports of a “fireball event” in south central British Columbia and southern Alberta. Witnesses saw a green streak followed by a fireball.
Jan 23, 2018
Juan F Martinez
Newly-discovered asteroid just days away from Earth
The recently discovered asteroid named 2018 CB will come within a distance of about 39,000 miles (64,000km) – less than one-fifth the distance of Earth to the Moon, according to NASA.
https://www.rt.com/news/418233-asteroid-earth-chelyabinsk-moon/
Feb 8, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/36453216-75/fireball-of-burn...
Fireball of burning “space junk” glowed across northwestern Oregon on Wednesday night
Feb. 16, 2018
If you saw a brief, yellow-orange glow in the night sky Wednesday night, it likely was a piece of space junk falling out of orbit and burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere — and you likely were much farther north than Eugene.
Jim Todd, director of space science education at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, sent out an email announcement Thursday afternoon about the fireball, which was reported to OMSI by 26 observers.
In noting their various descriptions, Todd wrote: “reports of a bright fireball around Oregon at 9:20 p.m., (Feb. 14), moving from west to east across a generally clear sky.”
The slow-moving ball was visible for 12-20 seconds, with no sound or smell reported and “appeared in two discrete pieces … a persistent train,” Todd wrote.
Of the 26 people who reported it, 18 saw it from spots as diverse as Portland, Newberg, McMinnville, Bend and Redmond. Washington residents in Vancouver and Kennewick reported it, and so — at different times — did observers in Wyoming, California, Australia and New Zealand.
Todd wrote that the glow likely was space junk because it was slower than a meteor and passed by at a low angle, and because it was yellow-orange. Meteors are more typically bluish white and streak across the sky higher, faster and brighter, sometimes exploding.
If you missed the sight Wednesday night, there likely will be more chances. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, “more than 500,000 pieces of debris, or ‘space junk,’ are tracked as they orbit the Earth.”
Feb 16, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
Events in 2018 610-2018
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/610
AMS received 8 reports about a fireball seen over CA on Friday, February 16th 2018 around 07:11 UT.
Feb 16, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/613
Events in 2018 613-2018
AMS received 44 reports about a fireball seen over Île-de-France, Occitanie, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Grand Est, Centre-Val de Loire, Hauts-de-France, Wallonie and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on Friday, February 16th 2018 around 19:17 UT.
Feb 19, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2018/02/19/green-fireball-me...
Green 'fireball' meteor Sunday wows Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island
Object streaking across sky northward spotted from Vancouver, Victoria, and U.S.
Courtesy Rocky Raybell/Flickr Creative commons
A meteor is captured by Keller, Wash. photographer Rocky Raybell on Nov. 11, 2014. Another such fireball, but green in colour, was seen by many over Metro Vancouver on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018.
A large, green-turquoise object with an unusually long tail streaked across the skies of British Columbia's Lower Mainland on Sunday evening, around 8:50 p.m.
The meteor was witnessed by Metro from the TransCanada Highway near Chilliwack, to the northwest and seemingly heading northward.
Others in the region described it as a "fireball," and witnesses soon took to Twitter to confirm their accounts from as far away as Victoria, B.C. and Seattle.
Meteorologist Chris Doyle, Enviroment and Climate Change Canada's acting associate regional director of prediction services, saw the object and tweeted what he saw.
"Just saw a meteor … arguably a fireball … in the sky to the (south) of Granville island," the former Vancouver Olympics chief meteorologist posted to Twitter at 8:52 p.m. "Green flash and trail."
Others chimed in that they, too, had seen the object, some describing its colour as closer to turquoise. But all agreed it was an unusual sight much larger than a typical meteor.
"Just saw a meterorite," tweeted Suzanne Mitchell at 9 p.m. from Vancouver Island. "Orange and turquoise fireball streak across the sky over Mt. Benson in Nanaimo. Wow!"
In fact, a meteorite is a meteor that has impacted the ground, and no accounts yet surfaced of any reported impact with Earth, indicating the object likely burned up in the atmosphere.
Another Vancouver Island resident, in Victoria, saw the green fireball, too.
"I think I saw a green shooting star or meteor over #yyj tonight," tweeted Patricia Sharratt.
"We saw it too!" tweeted Greater Vancouver Board of Trade communications manager Greg Hoekstra at 9:16 p.m. Sunday. "From the West End it looked like a bright streak in the sky over UBC. A shooting star or meteor?"
Alex Ruiz, the B.C. Lions digital manager, wrote she saw the fireball and knew it was out of the ordinary.
"It looked like it changed colours, that’s why we thought meteor," Ruiz tweeted. "Or something big entering the atmosphere. Definitely not just a shooting star. Crazy."
Another witness reported the sight from the North Shore.
"Saw it from the pier in North Van while staring at the skyline!" tweeted Justine Estelle at 9:23 p.m. "Wondered if anyone else saw it."
The fireball was seen from Washington State, as well.
"Just saw a huge meteor burning in the sky over Puget Sound, Seattle," tweeted Tom Schmitz, a digital marketing expert. "Blue-green fireball. I haven't seen one that big in over 20 years."
Green fireballs have an extensive history — and modern lore — on the continent, with numerous sightings particularly in the southern U.S. since the 1940s which have spurred Cold War, atomic testing and UFO-related conspiracies, including a high-level military investigation.
Nonetheless, despite their popularity in the world of ufologists, most experts agree green fireballs are natural in origin. Astronomers call them "spectacular bolide" or fireball meteors. One such large green fireball was seen over Cold Lake, Alberta in 2011.
Feb 20, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/618
Events in 2018 618-2018
AMS received 38 reports about a fireball seen over WA, British Columbia, OR and Washington on Monday, February 19th 2018 around 04:55 UT.
Feb 20, 2018
Juan F Martinez
Fireball, Chile 2/25/2018
Video: https://www.facebook.com/alertaperiodismoalternativo/videos/2060721...
Feb 26, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
http://meteornews.org/fireball-february-24-0h11m-over-belgium/
Fireball February 24, 0h11m over Belgium
Feb 24, 2018
About an hour and half after its appearance the French astronomer François Collas announced that a very bright fireball had been registered at 0h11m33s UT by 10 FRIPON cameras most of them in France: Arras, Wimereux, Lille, Noordwijk (Netherlands), Bruxelles (Belgium), Charleville, Cappellelagrande, Hochfelden, Maubeuge and Oostkapelle (Netherlands).
Soon next morning the first CAMS BeNeLux stations started to confirm the detections of past night. Several stations had this fireball in their data. CAMS 815 (operated by Jean-Paul Dumoulin and Christian Wanlin) had the start of the fireball (Figure 2) on two successive frames. Paul Roggemans found the end of the fireball on his CAMS 384, while it passed the edge of CAMS 383 which was totally overexposed. All 6 cameras turned white overexposed at the moment of the brightest flare (Figure 3). Bart Dessoy had the fireball on CAMS 804, and for once the otherwise annoying reflection on the window of the camera housing offers a nice thumbnail image of the fireball. The video version of CAMS 804 may confuse many readers. Whenever an overexposed detection happens, CAMS reduces the brightness which results in a weird cloud of snow running though the picture. At some instant you see the black silhouet of the fireball as negative image (Figure 5). Luc Gobin got the fireball on CAMS 807 and 808 at Mechelen (Figure 6). Jean-Marie Biets at Wilderen had the event on CAMS 380 (Figure 7) and on his all-sky camera.
The messages started to appear in the meteor news groups as well as on Facebook. Below we give an overview of the first images we collected for this fireball from CAMS and from the EN All-sky cameras. Both Koen Miskotte at Ermelo (Figure 8), Klaas Jobse at Oostkapelle (Figure 9) and Jos Nijland at Benningbroek (Figure 10) registered this fireball.
Feb 26, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
Events in 2018 751-2018
AMS received 9 reports about a fireball seen over Overijssel, Île-de-France, England, Bretagne, Zuid-Holland, Pays de la Loire, Brandenburg and Friesland on Saturday, February 24th 2018 around 19:44 UT.
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/751
Feb 26, 2018
Scott
American Meteor Society received over 80 reports about a fireball seen over Wisconsin on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 around 8:46pm local time.
Viewers reported seeing a green streak across the sky moving from northeast to southwest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bCDp-0_0SA
https://www.cbs58.com/news/numerous-reports-of-meteor-over-southeas...
American Meteor Society report
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/797
Mar 3, 2018
Juan F Martinez
‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid bigger than Golden Gate bridge hurtles towards Earth
Astronomers have been following asteroid 2017 VR12 since it was detected in November last year. NASA says that the enormous space rock will shave past our planet in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Measuring up to 470 meters (1,542ft) in diameter the rock is travelling through space at 14,093mph (22,680kph). Because it will come so close to Earth and is big enough to cause significant damage, if it were to strike, the Minor Planet Center designated the asteroid as “potentially hazardous.”
Mar 7, 2018
M. Difato
Bright flash of light across the Ural mountains – Fireball caught over Chelyabinsk
http://meteorshowertonight.org/bright-flash-of-light-across-the-ura...
This happened on March 6, 2018 across the Ural mountains in Russia. And three days before, on March 3, 2018, another fireball lit up the sky over Chelyabinsk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGRbWbYvHKo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQYLDO8Yfag
and the resulting bright flash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPi4npZYKhs
Mar 7, 2018