Fireballs on the Rise

[Sevan Makaracı]

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

ZetaTalk: Live Chat, written November 21, 2009

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

March 3, 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LINEAR INCREASE OF FIREBALL EVENTS SINCE 2010

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What a Meteor Looks Like

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What a Large Daytime Fireball Looks Like

Chelyabinsk Fireball (2013)

[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...

[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 

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...

[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

[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-...

[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-...

[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

[Juan F Martinez]

Four Major Fireballs Around the World within 10 Hours

 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-...

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2017/4163

Events in 2017 4163-2017

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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

[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...

[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.

“Report of a plane seen going down in the area, Kwina Road and Haxton, in the water,” a dispatcher said, according to emergency radio traffic archived online.

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.”