Canada Ping!
[Credit & Copyright: RASC Archives; Acknowledgement: Bradley E. Schaefer (LSU) ]
I seen a bright fireball over Utah a few years ago at 1:30 am or so. Lit up the sky like day time. I though a transformer had blown as that often lights up my yard but when I could see the mountains that are about 10 miles away I knew it was something big.
Neat - back in the late ‘60s, a friend and I were outside his house in the suburbs just south of Rochester, NY. We saw a meteor, moving low across the sky and i was kin of eerie because it almost seemed to be moving slow and there was no noise; just the bright light at full daylight. The news said it had landed in a swampy area north of Rochester (possibly east too). but I have no Idea if they ever found it. It was reminiscent of looking up at just the right time and seeing a picture fall off the wall - just happened to look up during the right 20 second or so time frame.
Like Schumaker-Levy
On a pitch black winter morning in Juneau, Alaska I was the only car on the road and a bright meteor passed right overhead - it was low enough to see burning chunks breaking off and it seemed to be moving rather slowly. It was maybe a ten second view and upon arriving at work I called the local radio station, told the DJ what I’d seen and he mentioned it on the air right away. Nobody else called in or reported the sighting.
Back in the early 70’s when I was in middle school, my dad, older brother and I spent a night in the back yard watching for meteors. After about an hour, having seen nothing, my brother went inside to get a drink. Just then, a meteor streaked across the sky and exploded in a shower of fragments. It lit up the whole sky. My dad and I just stared at each other in awe until my brother came out of the house. That’s when I said “He’ll never believe us.”
Although I knew the event was miles up in the atmosphere, I could have sworn I heard the sizzle and pop as it flashed across the sky and exploded. I have heard other people claim the same thing.
Canada Ping!
That vertical meteor trail about mid-image is interesting....