Impressive meteor

Me

[The Cajun]

Just saw the most impressive meteor I’ve ever seen in my 65 years.
At 5 minutes past midnight was doing my usual walk around outside the house and tractor barn and saw a meteor about 45 degrees off of the northern horizon moving from east to west.
Had visual for approximately 5 seconds as it covered 1/3 of the sky.
Pretty slow compared to other meteors I have seen.
The front was orange-yellow and green towards the back.
What made it really unusual is that even with my old eyes, I could see debris, greenish in color, falling downward fairly close to the back of it.
My first impression was, holy crap, that's close.
Lost sight of it when a tree was in the way and couldn't regain sight of it when I ran to the backside of the tree.
I waited for a sonic boom, but heard none.
Could have been space junk, but that normally moves from west to east and this thing was moving from due east to west.

The only reason I'm typing this up is because I was really impressed with it, never saw a trail like that and one that apparently slow.

[The Cajun]

Just saw the most impressive meteor I’ve ever seen in my 65 years. At 5 minutes past midnight was doing my usual walk around outside the house and tractor barn and saw a meteor about 45 degrees off of the northern horizon moving from east to west.
Had visual for approximately 5 seconds as it covered 1/3 of the sky.
Pretty slow compared to other meteors I have seen.
The front was orange-yellow and green towards the back.
What made it really unusual is that even with my old eyes, I could see debris, greenish in color, falling downward fairly close to the back of it.
My first impression was, holy crap, that's close.
Lost sight of it when a tree was in the way and couldn't regain sight of it when I ran to the backside of the tree.
I waited for a sonic boom, but heard none.
Could have been space junk, but that normally moves from west to east and this thing was moving from due east to west.

The only reason I'm typing this up is because I was really impressed with it, never saw a trail like that and one that apparently slow.

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[freedumb2003]

Interesting.

I haven’t seen any meteors. I did see some daytime UFOs with my wife but the details are both boring and unexplainable.

But if these are the pilots of the craft already underground, we all can and will blame you for the invasion!

[The Cajun]

Plain old meteor or maybe space debris. Just the best one I have seen.
Have see videos of slower ones, but this is the first one that lasted over a second or two that I've see myself.

[The Cajun]

see seen, idiot Cajun......Proof read, proof read, proof read!

[Casie]

That is very cool!

I've only seen one “falling star” so I have nothing to compare it to. But I thought it was a beautiful thing!

When I was in college I experienced something I've never been able to fully explain. I was driving home from work in a rough thunder storm. It was a country road with no street lights and there was an open field on one side, occasional houses on the other.

I had slowed to a crawl because I could not see 100 feet in front of the car. With no warning all the hair on my arms stood up and the field and even the car was lit with a neon blue flicker. My passenger, a girl I worked with named Connie had her shoulder length brown hair all statically-charge-stuck to the roof of my car! There was a very soft buzz sound that I could feel in the new filling in my tooth, but no thunder clap. It lasted 4-6 seconds, starting dim and increasing in intensity and then faded again.

It was SO cool.

My dad said it was probably ball lightening. I don't know! But Connie and I made a joke that if one of us developed ESP or grew antennae we would be sure and let the other know!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Do you have telekinetic powers now ?

[The Cajun]

This was the first one I have seen that was more than a little flicker of light with a short tail following directly behind and only lasting a second.
I actually saw some detail with the *green sparkles* falling downward.
Happy as all get out that I saw it.

[The Cajun]

Why no, but I now have the ability to detect wise-a**es a great distances, LOL!

[gunsequalfreedom]

Thanks for posting the account of this. I love to watch for shooting stars.when I cant sleep I go find the utility trailer out back and lay thete watching the night sky

[Bobalu]

Wow, wish I’d seen that :-)

[garandgal]

Sounds almost exactly like the one that my husband and I saw a couple of years ago...it was gorgeous.

Of course, at the time, part of your brain is saying “that’s beautiful!”...the other part is saying “good grief...what the heck is that...should I run?” LOL!

[The Cajun]

When I was younger we would go out in the bayous and canals in the flat marsh in the middle of no where to bass fish and frog at night.
You could see from horizon to horizon, the belt of the Milky way and an unbelievable amount of stars and their colors with the naked eye, no light pollution.
You would always see several meteors during the night, very bright and fast, but nothing like this one.
Guess that's why I was so impressed with it even with the light pollution.
My house is well lit up outside and the backyard where I was standing has two 100 watt floods shinning and also a street light at the front and one at the side of the house and another at the barn.....Light pollution max.

[The Cajun]

I honestly thought I was going to hear a sonic boom, but I didn't.
Probably was a lot further away and higher than I was assuming.
Your distance perceptions can play tricks on you with stuff like this, especially with no reference points.

[garandgal]

Probably was a lot further away and higher than I was assuming.

The one that we saw looked absolutely huge from our vantage point in Central Iowa...but it landed in Wisconsin.

[A.Hun]

Sounds exactly like St. Elmo’s Fire!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo%27s_fire

[Islander7]

I had a similar experience while sailing through a severe thunderstorm. It was daylight, so there was no visible light, but the rigging on my boat buzzed loudly. The rain from the storm missed us, but it was very windy though. My companion touched the main shroud and a spark 4” long zappped him.

He had a red whelt in his palm for days. Really spookie sail.

[The Cajun]

Have been in my bass boat (fiber glass) where the hand railings begin to shock you, you know it's time to head in and take cover.
Another good sign is when your mono-filament fishing line doesn't drop in the water but floats in the air above it, you are being charged up dangerously.

[Samurai_Jack]

Record your Lat/Long position and the direction you were looking and the ascension/declination where you saw it. If you can find pieces of it, they’re worth money. Or you can report it to the meteor hunters and let them go find it.

[mowowie]

A few years ago i was driving over this small bridge in my home town when this fireball literally screamed directly past my windshield and into the darkness to my right.
It was unbelievable.
It was a fireball about the size of a washing machine that missed my car by like 5 feet.

If it was not for my bitch ex-GF in the car at the time nobody would have believed it.

The next day me and my buddy scoured the park next to the bridge for the meteor to no avail, it probably landed in the Charles river.

It really was an amazing experience though...