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Posted on 05/11/2026 6:32:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Just as it faces an annual hurricane season and tornado season, North America is also experiencing an annual "fireball season," according to NASA.
"From February through April, the appearance rate of these very bright meteors can increase by as much as 10 percent to 30 percent, especially around the weeks of the March equinox," NASA explained in a statement in late March. "Exactly why is not known. Some astronomers think the Earth passes through more large debris at this time of year, causing an uptick in fireball sightings."...
The American Meteor Society, which has gathered professional and amateur meteor reports since 1911, said 41 large fireball events -- observed by more than 50 people -- were reported in the first three months of 2026. That's nearly double the average number of reported events for that time period from the previous five years.
Mike Hankey, operations manager at the American Meteor Society, told The Epoch Times that this is specifically an increase in "sporadic" meteors that are not connected to any larger comet or asteroid or regularly tracked meteor shower. And the sudden surge is not due to an increase in the number of eyes on the sky, he said...
"I wouldn't say that it's an earth-shattering anything," he said. "It's just an observation, right? It's just saying, 'Hey, this is the most traffic we've ever had in any single month.'"
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Fireball videos recorded worldwide between January and April 2026. The American Meteor Society said 41 large fireball events were reported in the first three months of 2026 -- nearly double the average number of reported events for that time period from the previous five years.Courtesy of American Meteor Society
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Global warming.
Good question.
DUH!!!
It’s *obviously* Global Warming and Climate Change!
Yeah, we’re done for! Done for! 😁
TRUMP’S FAULT !
I witnessed a massive fireball at about 2 or 3 in the morning one time... I was driving through a very wooded area and in the sky this large ball of fire streaked towards the earth with a tail behind it. The next day there was nothing in the news about it... Now mind you... That was back in the early 1990s and the internet was just a fledgling thing at that point. There were no ‘smart phones’, etc.
So while I may have been the only person to witness it, other’s may have witnessed it too... But without all the tech that is now available, none of us had a way of conveying our experience.
With all the cameras today constantly shooting in live action format... These phenomena are reported more often and more thoroughly. It’s not happening any more than usual... It’s just being reported more than usual.
I think you're right. I too saw a huge fireball in the early '90s. One evening I noticed that the backyard was suddenly lit up as though the Moon had suddenly got much brighter, so I ran outside and looked up at the sky and saw this huge fireball, from my point of view it looked to be the size of a basketball, flying overhead and heard a roaring sound coming from it as it disappeared over the horizon to the southwest. No internet in those days, so I read an article in the newspaper several days later that said that it crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
Question is, whose?
Annual meteor showers (such as the Perseids) have mostly been figured out as the debris train of known comets. Each time a comet swings by the Sun, the heating causes some disintegration, leading to such trails. Most comets repeat their trips past the Sun many times, over millions of years, or until they’ve nothing left to shed.
Showers with no known parent comet likely came from a comet that’s on a very long trip and has never been seen by us Earthlings, orrrr, are on pretty short trips and have lost all luminance, thus have escaped detection or identification. The other possibility is, the last time through they augured in and got vaporized by Sol.
No, not global warming. Periodic attack by major events roughly every 125 thousand years, causing so-called nuclear winter or Ice Ages. Probably some periodic hit from outer space, or some kind of major eruption from inside the earth, like Yellowstone.
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