-PJ
Posted on 03/29/2026 12:11:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A series of fireballs — very bright meteors — were spotted across North America from March 17-23, 2026. People in Ohio reported one on March 17. The next sightings were in California on March 19, Michigan and Georgia on March 20, and Texas on March 21, where a fragment crashed through a house roof.
It's happening beyond the U.S. Vancouver saw a fireball on March 3. France and Germany reported sightings on March 8 and 11. Many fireballs lasted a long time and were seen across wide areas. Some caused pressure waves and sonic booms.
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The emerging picture is of a real shift, albeit one that's not yet fully understood. Multiple lines of evidence — from increased sonic booms to higher witness counts for large events — point toward a change in the types of meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere. However, scientists caution that the dataset remains limited. The uptick in fireball sightings could represent natural variability, a temporary clustering of debris, or a poorly understood feature of the near-Earth environment. Whatever is going on, there is no cause for alarm — these objects remain small on a cosmic scale and rarely pose a threat beyond localized effects. Earth is not under siege.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
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“there is no cause for alarm “
“Lucifer’s Hammer”
Niven/Pournelle
I see them every time I go to BevMo!
More cell phones. More people with video recording devices with them at all times.
We had three in Ohio in less than a month. nothing like it on record.
The article addresses that issue in the un-excerpted text. Don’t know if I’m buying their explanation.
-PJ
I once saw a bollide in the night sky over Phoenix and looked for any reference to it in the news. I thought it a major even but was frustrated by the fact it was reported nowhere. I have often wondered if anyone else saw it.
Fireball XL5
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055673/
That was a good book.
Our CA heat wave was 27 degrees above normal. That’s 5 to 6 standard deviations. That just doesn’t happen...same as your fireballs just not being normal.
Something is afoot!
Biblical prophecy!
One night, while on a run from Sandusky, Oh to Delaware, Ohio, I counted 45 meteors streak across the sky. It was between 1AM And 330Am. The Leonids meteor shower, I think that was it. It was impressive.
Harpers Magazine in the 1800s had an article on the same.
Had some pictures that were engravings from glass negatives.
Just wondering if these could be objects that trailed 3I-Atlas from where ever and what ever event sent it our way.
- The uptick in fireball sightings could represent natural variability, a temporary clustering of debris, or a poorly understood feature of the near-Earth environment.
Not ‘Climate Change’?
Don’t look up!
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