PHOTO: Trussville, Alabama resident Jason Reed captured video of a fireball streaking across the sky on Oct. 20, 2014.
Posted on 10/21/2014 7:51:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The sighting came as the Earth passed through the debris cloud from Halley’s Comet, which produces the annual Orionid meteor shower.
Bill Cooke of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, told ABC News there were "several bright Orionids last night, as well as a spectacular fireball over middle Tennessee" that he said broke apart at 24 miles altitude just south of Nashville.
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I have seen a few spectacular ones while driving the freeways in Southern California you never ever forget them
ditto and ditto
I saw a fireball that was green in color a few years ago when I was out in SE New Mexico. Others saw it too... as far away as Colorado... the intensity of light increased to the point where the whole desert surronding me was lit up as bright as day... like an atom bomb went off or something undescribable.
Saw it for 15 seconds or so with debris burning up beneath it tail like, greenish in color with blue and white sparkles trailing, traveling east to west, so doubt it was a satellite burning up.
Saw one explode in the sky once, never was sure what it was. No mention of it in the papers.
My wife and I once watched the Perseid meteor shower from our pool deck in Sunland one year. I'll never forget seeing a humungous, blue/green, glowing, smoking, ball of hot debris coming right at us.
Naturally, it burned out before coming anywhere close to us, but man -- for a second there, I really thought it would.
It was a sight I'll always remember.
Note: this topic is from 10/21/2014. Thanks BenLurkin.
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