Fireball streaks over East Coast, with sightings from Canada to D.C. region

washington post ^ | 10/05/2016 | Dana Hedgpeth

[BenLurkin]

Tuesday night’s fireball, Hankey said, included reports of people hearing a “sonic boom,” which are typically heard within a 50-mile radius of a fireball sighting. Some of the reports, he said, came in from parts of north and central Pennsylvania.

“To have that echoing sound means it has to get pretty close to the surface,” Hankey said. “It penetrated the Earth’s atmosphere deep enough to create a sonic boom.”

That, he said, “makes it stand out.”

[Talisker]

[M Kehoe]

Sorry, that was me. I’ll be more careful next time.

5.56mm

[Robert A Cook PE]

Damn. It missed Washington DC.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[editor-surveyor]

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Big meteors!
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[Billthedrill]

Hit the taco truck for lunch again, did we?

[PAR35]

Reptilians sending in reinforcements for Hillary. After all, when the Bush/Clinton crowd talks about letting aliens in, they aren’t really talking about Mexicans.

[353FMG]

I had no idea that they are interested in the VP debates.

[wally_bert]

No Macross Island so it isn’t the SDF1.

[mykroar]

[US_MilitaryRules]

Fireball is my favorite!

[Travis McGee]

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Signs and portents.

The Big Reset is coming.

(Link to the full-length Free Republic thread)

[ETL]

Large meteor 'fireball' spotted over New York

Sambellado

Published on Oct 5, 2016

Great balls of fire! Bright meteor lights up the night sky across the US and Canada A meteor was spotted in several US states and parts of Canada on Tuesday evening.--YouTube

[PhiloBedo]

Likely a military orbiter/space plane entering the atmosphere from a polar orbit. Landing at Cape Canaveral or Patrick AFB.

[CtBigPat]

Darn, I missed it. And I was wearing this shirt yesterday.

[backwoods-engineer]

It didn’t smack straight down on DC, dead zero on the White House? Awww, too bad.

[Travis McGee]

Matthew, please go away.

[grumpygresh]

Next time it might be Wormwood or a Russian nuke.

[ETL]

I think this is the same, from a different location, possibly in Canada...