Posted on 07/08/2004 4:11:15 PM PDT by maquiladora
It's the talk of East Texas Thursday. What was that light in the sky Wednesday night?
It appears East Texas was right in the middle of a meteor shower. People reported seeing a bright object in the skies from Wichita Falls, to Little Rock, to Houston. That includes all of East Texas.
A police car dashboard camera in Dallas, Texas caught the light show on camera. The bright ball with the trailing tail can be clearly seen in the video.
Heather Williams in Kilgore says she saw the light show in the front yard of her Kilgore home. "In the middle it was a big bright light and on the side it had two blue streaks," says Williams. Her husband, Billy Williams decided to take a look at the night sky for himself. "It was pretty big, had some good fire behind it. So, we stayed out another 45 minutes and that was about it."
In an e-mail to KLTV, (one of many), Rainey Riley from the Joinerville area wrote, "Last night about 9:05 as my children and I started up our driveway we saw a flash of light in the clear sky. The light was so bright I had to stop the truck. We looked up and saw a falling ball of pink fire right above our house it was huge. It appeared to have fallen right behind our house. We got spot lights and looked in the fields and we saw nothing. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. My children and I were somewhat afraid."
The National Weather Service says it received numerous reports of a fireball in the sky around 9:30 PM Central Time Thursday night.
(Excerpt) Read more at kltv.com ...
I saw it here in Dallas - it was very pretty, lots of gold/green/sparks. Very impressive!
I saw it here in Dallas - it was very pretty, lots of gold/green/sparks. Very impressive!
You saw it twice?
Anyone else noticed an increase of such activity being reported throughout the world media?
Yes
Yes!
Very much so, perhaps the earth is passing though a field of these at the moment. Isn't there phases of meteor showers which happen now and again?
LOL. I missed by 10 minutes; I decided to walk the dogs at 9:30 and I understand that it passed at 9:40. I really regret that!
There's basically a yearly shower, most of which are very weak but a few strong (the Perseids, for example) going on almost every day of the year.
HOWEVER, lone very bright fireballs like the Texas one have NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SHOWERS, which are comet dust.
Calling what happened over Texas a "meteor shower" is completely wrong.
Shoot ... I missed it, I was inside.
Anybody ever say what it was thought to be ?
Pegasid meteor shower.
Missed it!!!
I heard some experts claim that it was an unusually high and quite large meteor (to be seen for so long and over 5 states), and that if any of it survived entry it probably landed in Colorado.
The International Meteor Organization says the Pegasid meteor shower is occuring through the middle part of the month, with a peak coming on Friday night.
Does anyone have a link to the video on the web?
Thanks
I guess it'll show up at some stage, it'll be interesting to see.
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