Space invader! Spectacular fireball captured on Bellevue and Spokane cameras! [3:55]

YouTube ^ | August 15, 2026 | SeattleTraffic Cams

[SunkenCiv]

This isn't the video I was planning to upload next, but it was way too cool not to share! Early on August 14th, a meteor entered the atmosphere, lighting up the skies over much of Washington state. Traffic cameras from both Bellevue and Spokane captured footage of the fireball, which was estimated to be beach-ball sized and moving at nearly 33,000 miles per hour! 

Space invader! Spectacular fireball 
captured on Bellevue and Spokane cameras! | 3:55 
SeattleTraffic Cams | 23K subscribers | 29,148 views | August 15, 2026

 

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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: meteor; meteorite; spokane; washington

[SunkenCiv]

• 'It put on a show': Fireball streaks Spokane skies overnight
  Julia Pentasuglio | The Spokesman-Review | August 14, 2026

[SunkenCiv]

Multiple home security cameras, in Moses Lake, Airway Heights and Spokane Valley, capture a bright meteor streaking through the sky over Eastern Washington in the early morning hours Friday, August 14, 2026. 

Security camera capture meteor 
August 14, 2026 over Eastern Washington | 0:14 
The Spokesman-Review | 4.27K subscribers | 1,111 views | August 14, 2026

[SunkenCiv]

Andrew Davidson with the Seattle Paddleboard Club shared this video of a fireball in the sky in Chimacum last night. Did you see it? If so, let us know WHERE in the comments. 

Fireball in the sky seen in Washington | 0:28 
KOMO News | 415K subscribers | 4,182 views | August 14, 2026

[bobbo666]

Every year or so a largish meteor comes down somewhere on earth. The air explosion (usually in the air, not a collision) ranks about a small nuke. They are called bolides.
Some have been recorded by folks from their window in airplanes.

[SunkenCiv]

Yup!

https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=greenland%20impact

[janetjanet998]

Rumble version for those that don’t wait to use YouTube

Video
Spectacular fireball captured on Bellevue and Spokane cameras
https://rumble.com/v7e7l7e-spectacular-fireball-captured-on-bellevue-and-spokane-cameras.html

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Melian....somewhere near your neighborhood!?

[Bob434]

Went out for a cigg one evening and abotu 2 minutes later i happened to look up at just the right time and saw one- Very cool- I later quit smoking and haven’t seen one since-

[SunkenCiv]

Shooting a video is often as simple as reaching for your phone. Now. Imagine the good luck here — someone had a video camera in a low-population area, national park.

Grand Teton Meteor, August 10 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M8LQ7_hWtE

A “this day in history” description:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n89YInppSaE

[Red Badger]

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Space contributing more material for earth's Iron Core! Or possibly museum display material!

(Material for the Arabic criminal Borg-Cube and its kneeling butt smelling votaries!)

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Cinnamon yes, whiskey, no!

[Robert DeLong]

On August 14, 2026, a massive fireball streaked across the Pacific Northwest, visible across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. The event occurred at approximately 12:48 a.m. PDT and was not part of the concurrent Perseid Meteor Shower, but rather a background sporadic meteor.

The object, estimated to be a 16-inch (40 cm) piece of an asteroid weighing 170 pounds, entered the atmosphere above Soap Lake, Washington, traveling north at 33,000 mph. It burned up and fragmented about 28 miles above Sim’s Corner in Douglas County, releasing energy equivalent to 10 tons of TNT. This fragmentation created a pressure wave that caused sonic booms and loud rumbles reported by witnesses, with Doppler radar suggesting some meteorites may have landed in the area. Hundreds of eyewitnesses and security cameras captured the brilliant blue-white light of the fireball.

The Lord's versio of fireworks. 😁🤙

[Beowulf9]

“I later quit smoking and haven’t seen one since-”

What exactly WERE you smoking?!!!

[simpson96]

I saw an unbelievable bolide many years ago in the predawn sky, while waiting for my commuter train on a platform with a large group of people.

A “burst” of sparks like a firework caught my eye up in the sky towards the left, and then the meteor streaked on towards the lower right for a bit, the there was another smaller “burst”, then it streaked on, then a last small “burst’, and it faded out. I surmised it was a bolide that was falling apart as it fell. I knew what I’d seen, and was stunned. Others saw it too, and one casually remarked, “Oh. Fireworks.” Lol. Not the brightest bunch.

[Pocketdoor]

The percides (sp) meteor shower was the 13th? my son saw over one hundred in 4-5 hours.

[SunkenCiv]

Excellent. It was probably overcast or raining a bit here, or I was taking my nap before bedtime. 😁

[Myrddin]

Every year or so a largish meteor comes down somewhere on earth. The air explosion (usually in the air, not a collision) ranks about a small nuke. They are called bolides. Some have been recorded by folks from their window in airplanes.

We had one last night. It woke up the dogs. Lots of reports from all over town on Facebook. Ring and Vivint camera footage with sound. I blew it off as a lightning strike with a big clap of thunder, but it was a bolide. Likely bits of the Perseid shower.

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[Bob434]

lol- just ciggs at the time-