or this?
Posted on 02/03/2010 8:47:43 PM PST by BenLurkin
At about 7:25 pm local time.
Saw it while driving home on the 5 freway. A bright white light traveling very fast in a northerly direction that winked out after a moment or two.
This makes two for me. The first was about ten years ago also while driving home from work. It was much more spectacular.
Northbound you say? Headed away from the border?
I once saw a daytime firefall in Colorado...it was amazing!
I saw one once in Kansas. Green flames!
Are you sure you arn’t in Ireland?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443648/posts
I did see a spectacular fireball about 15 years ago. Lit up my whole backyard and had a roaring sound as it headed south. Looked about the size of a basketball in the sky. I later read that it crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
What are all you people talking about? Was this guy doing mushrooms on the freeway listening to hilarious Ken & John on KFI in rush hour?
WTF? Fireballs? Are you people crazy? ;-)
Must be one of those west coast / east coast things.
Hmmmm. Second report of a fireball on FR today. The first, in Ireland, was reported earlier. Can anyone say H.G. Wells?
Meteors again?
Been a rash of meteors lately
We saw it too! We were driving east on hiway 58 just outside Bakersfield. It was in several pieces close together, glowing in various colors including green and orange. It was quite a show - lasted about two or three seconds before it flames out.
Fireballs in Ireland and LA?
Quakes all over the Western world?
Obama in office?
Oh Noz! The end is near!
The green is copper, the orange is iron.
Blue is cobalt and it is spectacular.
They’re already crashing the gates to get a good seat for Feb 11.
Whare is Los Angles? Is it anywhere near Hollyweird?
Sure it wasn’t Michael Moore just lighting one of his farts ?
I wish one would hit Amadinajahd on the noggin.
Chavez and Lil Kim and Hu Jin Too...
I saw a big firey one once—turned out to be a space shuttle returning.
I was on the 5 north at that time in LA and I did see something but it looked like landing lights into LAX not the classic streaking blue green of a meteor. Where specifically were you on the 5? I was just passing the citidel at that time.
They will get your attention. I was driving to a turkey hunting area before dawn in the mountains between Pueblo and Colorado Springs in 1993 when a meteor hit the atmosphere, calved into two large pieces and disappeared behind the mountains. I brought the truck to a screeching halt as my night vision was gone; it was like a two second flash bulb right in the eyes.
While skidding to a stop I had a micro nightmare, as I was recently assigned to C-Springs, and Cheyenne Mountain (NORAD) was only 10 miles North. I had been talking recently to a Lieutenant on what had in the past been targeted (as far as ICBMs) on NORAD based on estimates from Soviet sources. I had a brief fear for .1 seconds that I was watching a 25 megaton warhead on it’s final trajectory.... Funny what you think of in time compression when your adrenaline hits. I never saw anything in the news, others must have seen it though. It was amazingly bright.
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