Posted on 10/20/2017 9:07:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The American Meteor Society says the flash of light that was spotted on Wednesday afternoon in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maryland and Delaware was a fireball.
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One idiot is claiming it came from ground up
Man the lions are out in full force
Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick,
Jack jumped over
the candlestick.
Goodness, gracious, Great Balls of Fire!
Once saw Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry on the same venue, with Richard and Lewis doing duo songs.
Talk about something “Hot, Hot, Hot”.
I like a shot of fireball in my beer.
I saw three tonight in 10 minutes. Not bad. We never see meteor showers here in MA, it’s always overcast. Hopefully it will be clear in December. Supposed to be 120 an hour!
It’s a good thing there are currently no active volcanoes in the Northeast. If the fireball were to have hit a Northeastern volcano, it would have been a disaster of epic proportions.
had one go over our house several years ago- never did find out what it was
Oh. Finally.
I think I saw this actually on a feed when it happened.
BIG return. Much, much, much larger than the usual returns. I actually saw this on a display I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzLRsBXpHl0
This was the feed. However I am not sure where exactly it was, or even if that was the instance which showed it. Quite remarkable though.
Saw a meteor passing over Rochester, NY in broad daylight but still very bright, back around ‘67 or so. Pretty neat and we told folks about seeing it, because it was cool to have been in the right place/time to see it, but didn’t feel the need to “report” it.
Today’s rockers couldn’t hold a candle to the Killer.
Back in the early 60s when I was living in central Ohio I saw one at about 5 p.m. I ran in and told my mom that a plane had crashed!!! (that was all my 10 or 11 year old brain could put together..)
We found out later that it was a meteor somewhere over Indiana and had been seen in a number of states.
*** “I like a shot of fireball in my beer.”***
Works fine in coffee as well
I wonder what you saw.
I saw one of these about 50 years ago while out on a golf course. There was no "roaring"sound until quite some time afterward, and then what I heard was what I believe was a sonic boom.
ML/NJ
Humm. Sounds like he got a meteor confused with the rocket that hit flight 800.
(Which was not a rocket but a fuel tank that exploded and squirted av-fuel out of the plane that descended 3000 feet without dispersing and caught fire as the squirt stream hit the ocean (seriously!) and the fire climbed up the squirt with the appearance of a rocket trail back to the plane appearing to cause an explosion in the plane that was already exploding as the result of the initial Spark?)
Or, if the meteor came from over the horizon it may have looked like it was ascending.
He should check with the FBI first, otherwise this should help him;
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140609.html
That’s actually really good! The most I ever saw was 3 in half an hour of standing in the dark.
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