[goodtomato]

Air Force has been flying this past couple weeks over the Avon Park, Fl bombing range. Don’t know where they originate from, could be Atlantic or from the Gulf. Do you think it was a flare?

[publius321]

This is fascinating. People on Twitter wer reporting it as well. Someone wrote that they saw on the news it made impact in Alabama.

That makes sense because the one that I saw in the early 90’s, like this one looked like it landed just a few miles away but 12-13 years later, when I saw the video on Discover, they indicated in was thousands of miles away from where I actually was at the time (Pittsburgh, PA)

Here’s the link regarding the one I just saw.

http://spaceweather.com/

METEOR RADAR: The US Air Force Space Surveillance Radar is scanning the skies above Texas. When a satellite or meteoroid passes overhead—ping!—there is an echo. Activity is picking up this week as Earth enters a stream of debris from extinct comet 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Tune into Spaceweather Radio for live audio.

[publius321]

This is fascinating. People on Twitter were reporting it as well. Someone wrote that they saw on the news it made impact in Alabama.

That makes sense because the one that I saw in the early 90’s, like this one looked like it landed just a few miles away but 12-13 years later, when I saw the video on Discover, they indicated in was thousands of miles away from where I actually was at the time (Pittsburgh, PA)

Here’s the link regarding the one I just saw.

http://spaceweather.com/

METEOR RADAR: The US Air Force Space Surveillance Radar is scanning the skies above Texas. When a satellite or meteoroid passes overhead—ping!—there is an echo. Activity is picking up this week as Earth enters a stream of debris from extinct comet 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Tune into Spaceweather Radio for live audio.

[SunkenCiv]

There have been a lot of big bolide sightings during 2008-2009. Partly that's a consequence of more people living in darker spaces; partly that could even be due to more awareness of stuff in the sky because of 9/11 (I've found myself doing more skygazing these past eight years); it probably is just one of those things, there happen to be plenty of larger chunks arriving after eons of travel through the inner Solar system; could be a wave of debris from outside the Solar system:

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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