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)

[Howard]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Howard]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Howard]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Howard]

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

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

Social media lit up with reports of the meteor.

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

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

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

[Howard]

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

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

"This reminded me of Russia in February."

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Howard]

Large Fireball Blazes Across Alabama Sky (Sept 9)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Carlos]

Fireball Italy (Sep. 03/2013)

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

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

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

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

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

[Carlos]

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

[Sevan Makaracı]

HUGE FIREBALL LIGHTS UP ALABAMA NIGHT SKY

 August 28

 

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

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[Howard]

Bright Fireball  Blazes Over Canary Islands (Aug 25)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There has so far been no official explanation given.

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