Fireballs on the Rise

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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)

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https://www.somagnews.com/fireball-explodes-over-portugal-at-dawn/

Fireball explodes over Portugal at dawn

November 17, 2020

The Universe, this year, seems to have more frequently responded to requests for “Vem meteoro” – this time, a fireball exploded in the skies south of Portugal at dawn this Monday (16).

The bolide began to be followed by sensors from the Andalusian Astrophysics Institute (IAA-CSIC), and by the astronomical observatories in Calar Alto, Seville and La Hita, Spain, as soon as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere.

The meteor crossed the entire Iberian Peninsula until it exploded over

After entering the atmosphere at 227 thousand kilometers per hour, the friction of the atmosphere with the rock (probably the piece of a comet), caused it to explode, at 60 kilometers of altitude, in a flash seen by the naked eye throughout the south of the country.

The event was captured by numerous cameras, such as the one at the Calar Alto Observatory:

A meteor to call Brazilian

In May this year, a similar meteorite scared residents of the city of Tiros, in Minas Gerais. After searching around the city looking for fragments of the meteor, one of them found a piece of about 400g, which helped to identify the origin of the rock.

Analysis of the fragment revealed that the now-called Tiros meteorite is part of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the solar system.

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Huge Fireball Spotted Over US Scares Residents

Witnesses of the fireball sighting claimed that the object that burned up produced green and orange light in the skies

On November 14, a huge fireball streaked across the skies of the United States. The fireball was so bright that it literally scared residents in the area. Soon after the sighting, residents in the area reported the event to the International Meteor Organization (IMO). Most of the people who witnessed the event claimed that the fireball was incredibly big, and it produced huge light in the skies.

"I've seen shooting stars in the past, but this one was much larger than anything I've seen before. It honestly frightened me and my girlfriend," wrote Eric on the IMO website, after reporting the sighting.

Another eyewitness named Ben claimed that the meteor that burned up in the atmosphere could be the biggest shooting star that he has ever seen in his life. These eyewitnesses also claimed that the fireball produced green and orange light in the atmosphere, that lasted only for one or two seconds.

According to space scientists, fireballs are nothing but small meteors and other space bodies that burn up in the skies while entering the earth's atmosphere. According to the International Meteor Organization that was formed in 1998, these fireballs usually appear brighter than normal.

"Fireballs are meteors that appear brighter than normal. Due to the velocity at which they strike the Earth's atmosphere, fragments larger than one millimeter has the capability to produce a bright flash as they streak through the heavens above. These bright meteors are what we call fireballs and they often strike fear and awe for those who witness them," IMO says on their website.

On the other hand, conspiracy theorists suggest that earth has entered a thick debris field, and it could be the reason behind an increase in meteor entry and asteroid close approaches. These conspiracy theorists believe that this rise in asteroid close approaches could be indicating the arrival of Nibiru, the rogue space body that could cause apocalypse on planet earth.

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Two meteor showers are bringing shooting stars and fireballs to the night sky this week

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A fireball 'impacts' with a dome of Calar Alto

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In images taken from the observatory, the object appears to hit one of the telescopes

During the last night of November 1, two impressive fireballs flew over the sky. The first one at 18:53 UT (19:53 local time) occurred over the skies of Castilla La Mancha. This object could be registered by SMART Project detectors operated from the observatories of Calar Alto (Almería), La Sagra (Granada), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Hita (Toledo) and Seville. 

With regard to the second object, the results of the analyses are still very provisional. Everything seems to indicate that this fireball flew over North Africa at 22:30 UT (23:30 local time) and ended with a large explosion.

The two objects could be recorded with the external surveillance cameras of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería.

According to the analysis carried out by Professor José María Madiedo (Instituteof Astrophysics of Andalusia IAA CSIC), the first car had a comeary origin. A piece of rock tached from a comet hit our atmosphere at an estimated speed of about 65,000 km/h. The luminous part of this event began at an altitude of 97 km and ended at about 64 km above sea level.

The results are entirely provisional. Everything seems to indicate, in any case, that the object had an asteroid origin and that it occurred in the skies of North Africa.

This event had a brightness similar to that of the full moon and concluded with a large explosion. It is curious to see how from the point of view of one of the external surveillance cameras of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, this object seems to hit one of the telescopes.

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Massive fireball and sonic boom creates shock waves across the Wheatbelt

Mon, 2 November 2020 6:21PM

Sunday night’s fireball and sonic boom has been described as sounding like “someone’s meth lab just blew up”, with experts crediting the loud boom to a small piece of asteroid hitting the atmosphere.

Experts from Curtin University’s Desert Fireball Network told the ABC the fireball — reported east of Perth at 8.09pm on Sunday — said the sonic boom was so loud the sound would have been heard as far as 50km from the fireball.

"Sonic booms are quite common for rocks that make it quite deep in the atmosphere," Dr Hadrien Devillepoix told the ABC.

"They pack a big punch and create a kind of shock wave. That's what people hear.”

He said the fireball, which was was expected to have travelled at about 10-20 kilometres per second, would have most likely landed to the east of Perth.

"Not many people actually saw the fireball directly.

"We got it on one camera — all the way down in Katanning in the Wheatbelt."

Residents from Chidlow told the ABC it sounded like “something was blowing up”.

“It was loud enough for us to sit, look at each other, and look outside to see what it was,” Tony Ettridge said.

“We thought, jokingly, 'someone's meth lab just blew up'.”

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VIDEO: Bright fireball meteor confirmed over Central Alabama

A bright fireball streaked across the night skies of Alabama just before 6 p.m. Sunday evening

Updated November 3 at 9:12 AM

TALLADEGA, Ala. (WSFA) - There were many reports of a mysterious bright greenish-blue object streaking across the Alabama sky just before 6 p.m. on Sunday. Turns out it was a very bright meteor -- often referred to simply as a fireball.

The fireball wasn’t just spotted in Central Alabama; it was seen at multiple locations across Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.

It was even seen a time or two as far away as Kentucky, Virginia and Florida!

By Tyler Sebree | November 3, 2020 at 9:12 AM CST - Updated November 3 at 9:12 AM

TALLADEGA, Ala. (WSFA) - There were many reports of a mysterious bright greenish-blue object streaking across the Alabama sky just before 6 p.m. on Sunday. Turns out it was a very bright meteor -- often referred to simply as a fireball.

The fireball wasn’t just spotted in Central Alabama; it was seen at multiple locations across Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.

It was even seen a time or two as far away as Kentucky, Virginia and Florida!

November 1st Alabama Fireball (Source: WSFA 12 News)

According to reports submitted to the American Meteor Society, it was seen burning up in Earth’s atmosphere near Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, Auburn, and Troy just to name a few Alabama cities.

The most concentrated area of reports came in from around Atlanta, Georgia. That’s likely due to the amount of people there that could have witnessed it.

The actual path of the bright meteor was just east of Birmingham.

The starting point of its path was roughly the meeting point of Calhoun, Cherokee and Etowah counties east of Gadsden. It traveled southwest and ended its path at the intersection of U.S. 431 and AL-144 near Alexandria, Ohatchee and Wellington. That’s just north of I-20 and the Anniston/Oxford area.

The “Geometric Impact Point” of the fireball is between downtown Talladega and I-20 in northern Talladega County. That’s essentially where the meteor would have struck Earth’s surface if it survived burning up in the lower atmosphere.

While not likely, it’s possible that small pieces or fragments -- referred to as meteorites -- made it to the surface. These are very rare and can be worth a significant amount of money if confirmed as legitimate.

So...was this a crazy or super rare thing?

Eh, not really. Fireballs happen all the time across the entire planet. As of November 3rd, the American Meteor Society has documented over 6,200 fireball “events"... alone.

It is a bit more on the rare side to have an exceptionally bright meteor zip across the night sky in your home state. It’s even rarer to document it as these fireballs are only visible for a matter of seconds at most. And unfortunately, there’s no way to really predict them to prepare your phones and cameras.

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Fireball booms across US on Halloween - 'Brightest shooting star of my life'

A FIREBALL which some have described as the biggest and brightest they had ever seen boomed over northeastern USA on Halloween.

UPDATED: 14:35, Mon, Nov 2, 2020

The spooky season kicked off with a bang on Halloween when residents across nine states witnessed a huge fireball. The meteor was so big and bright that it could be seen in the north of Michigan, all the way down to Georgia, more than 900 kilometres away.

Witnesses described the booming fireball as having a plethora of colours, mainly blue, white and green, coming from the main body as it hit Earth's atmosphere.

Almost 200 people flocked to the International Meteor Organisation (IMO) to report their sightings.

One video captured by a security camera shows the fireball seemingly getting bigger and bigger as it approaches the surface before simply disappearing.

Shawna added: "Seemed closer than any other falling star or fireball I’d ever seen.

"Had a white to light yellow head with a green to blue tail and seemed to have a white streak behind it but not a long one.

"I thought it was a firecracker at first but it didn’t make sense to be falling and I never heard a noise."

Shae reported to the IMO: "I have never seen anything like it in my life!"

Stephanie said: "Very bright green light streaked across the sky not very high in altitude, larger than any other shooting star I've seen."

Tracy added: "Looked like the brightest shooting star in my life."

Rhonda stated: "Never saw anything like this - it was big, bright, & colourful.

"Compared to other shooting stars or meteor showers, this looked much closer. Only lasted about 4 seconds, then simply vanished!"

Fireballs are the result of meteors hitting the atmosphere.

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https://www.newsweek.com/fireball-meteor-alaska-volcano-alarms-1542128

Huge Fireball Meteor over Alaska Sets off Volcano Warning System 360 Miles Away

10/26/20 AT 10:48 AM EDT

A huge "fireball" meteor that lit up skies across west Alaska also set off newly installed sensors for detecting volcanic activity, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has said.

The event, which took place on October 15, triggered six of the sensors' alarms at a new monitoring station on the Kenai Peninsula. The sensors are built to detect low-frequency sound waves in the atmosphere during volcanic activity, but in this case they picked up waves coming from the meteor that had streaked across the sky around 360 miles away.

In a Facebook post, the USGS said the meteor also triggered an alarm at Mount Spurr—a large, active volcano that sits around 80 miles from Anchorage that last erupted in 1992. However, as other monitoring systems also picked up on the waves, "it quickly became clear that this was not activity at Mount Spur," the post said.

Scientists with the USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory worked with researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute to investigate the cause. They found the meteor passed over Alaska around 40 miles from the Athabaskan community of Kaltag, which sits on the Yukon River.

In a blog post for the American Geophysical Union, UAF science writer Ned Rozell said witnesses reported the fireball in regions hundreds of miles apart. One resident of Ruby described it as an "enormous ball of light in the sky," saying it was moving north to south. Another resident said it looked like "fireworks" that split into four dots.

David Fee, head of the infrasound program at UAF's Geophysical Institute and researcher with the AVO, said he believes the meteor exploded somewhere east of Kaltag. "I typically don't work on meteors, but they are often really nice infrasound sources to help better understand the performance of our networks, and I think provide valuable information on meteors and bolides themselves," he said

Meteors are small bits of space rock that enter Earth's atmosphere. When they do, they burn up, producing a bright light that streaks across the sky. If any rock survives, it falls to Earth and becomes a meteorite. Fee said they believe the meteorite from the event probably hit the ground somewhere north of the Innoko River and that the remains will now be buried with snow.

Over a dozen meteors are thought to hit Earth's atmosphere every day. So far this year, the American Meteor Society has recorded more than 570 events where there were more than five sightings. This includes a fireball passing over California on October 23, which was reported by 81 people. Witnesses described the fireball as being almost as bright as the moon. One onlooker said it was the "most amazing" thing they had ever seen

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https://www.rt.com/news/504292-puerto-rico-fireball-ufo-google-loon/

WATCH: Colorful fireball blazes across Puerto Rican skies as Google Loon project sparks hundreds of UFO reports

22 Oct, 2020 17:36

As a fireball lit up the night sky in Puerto Rico, hundreds of people notified the authorities about strange objects flying above the Caribbean island.

The impressive light show took place on Tuesday night, as the Orionid meteor shower was peaking. The stunning spectacle was captured by photographer Frankie Lucena, who shared footage of the incident on social media on Wednesday. 

The skywatcher speculated that the fireball was a Taurid – a type of meteor named after their radiant point in the constellation Taurus.

The skies above the unincorporated US territory have been a hive of activity in recent days, as the Caribbean Astronomical Society has reported that hundreds of Puerto Ricans have reported seeing unexplained “white dots” in the sky during daylight hours.

The society was inundated with people seeking answers, and many even managed to photograph the peculiar objects, which were described as akin to “bright planets.” 

An investigation subsequently revealed that the “planets” were actually balloons from Project Loon – a development from Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The network of WiFi-equipped helium balloons aims to expand broadband access on the ground, with the added benefit of boosting Google’s information-collection capabilities in the sky.

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“We are totally sure that what was seen in the sky were these balloons, since we even managed to capture photos through telescopes, at a time when the naked eye could see the same white dots that many saw,” the Caribbean Astronomical Society said in a statement.

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‘It looked like fireworks, until it split into four dots’: Fireball in the sky over Alaska

Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire.

• Friday, October 23, 2020 10:10am

Katie Kangas operates a bed-and-breakfast in Ruby, Alaska. On the morning of Oct. 15, she turned to look out her picture window, toward the cabin next door. She was waiting for her client to switch the light on, at which point she would step out and deliver his breakfast.

Staring out into the darkness, she and her husband Ivan saw “an enormous ball of light in the sky to the west. It was moving north to south, and was quite big.”

A few hundred miles northwest, Daisy Sours was standing outside in Selawik, Alaska, at about 7:30 that morning. She saw something she never had before.

“It looked like fireworks, until it split into four dots,” she said.

At villages in northwestern and central Alaska, from McGrath to Wainwright, people saw what scientists think was a meteorite — a rock falling from space burning up and breaking apart in the thick air surrounding Earth.

David Fee thinks it was a bolide, a fiery meteor that exploded in the atmosphere, probably above the quiet spruce swamps east of Kaltag and south of Galena.

Fee is head of the infrasound program at UAF’s Geophysical Institute. Infrasound is low-frequency noise; elephants might be able to hear it, but our ears don’t work in that range.

Scientists detect infrasound signals with microphones on spidery legs. The stations are peppered all over Alaska.

Those sensitive instruments, maintained by scientists with the Wilson Alaska Technical Center, Alaska Volcano Observatory and the Alaska Earthquake Center, allow researchers to monitor air-pressure changes, as well as low-frequency sounds.

Since the 100-plus stations were installed all over Alaska, in Antarctica and on humid islands in large expanses of blue salt water, scientists have detected nuclear explosions beneath China from as far away as Fairbanks.

Helping determine compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is a large part of the Wilson Alaska Technical Center’s existence, but scientists have found the infrasound networks valuable for other things.

Fee, who is also a researcher with the Alaska Volcano Observatory, finds infrasound useful for capturing the explosive roar of volcanoes. Scientists have also detected the aurora borealis stirring the thin air above us, and the air disturbed by far-off mine explosions.

And, it turns out, infrasound is also a good tool for measuring the path of space rocks screaming through the 30-mile shell of gases surrounding our planet. An infrasound network on the UAF campus in Fairbanks recorded a clean signal of the air-pressure waves from the Oct. 15 bolide over western Alaska.

“I typically don’t work on meteors, but they are often really nice infrasound sources to help better understand the performance of our networks, and I think provide valuable information on meteors and bolides themselves,” Fee said.

Stations from all over Alaska helped Fee and his coworkers determine that the space rocks from the mid-October visitor to Earth are probably somewhere north of the upper Innoko River.

The chunks and nuggets — coated with a black “fusion crust,” the result of sizzling friction with air molecules — have now cooled to the touch. Those bits of space are now buried by snow within a quiet portion of the third rock

from the sun.

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