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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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!
Do you have telekinetic powers now ?
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
Wow, wish I’d seen that :-)
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.
Hey, Cajun....luvyabro, but pull out your dictionary.....
What you saw was not a meteor, but a meteorite - or satellite debris falling back to earth........
old Science teacher......
I saw one like that in 1987, around midnight, on I-64 between Richmond and Williamsburg, VA. It traveled south to north and was visible from North Carolina to New York. A huge fireball. Most people only get to see one or two like that in a lifetime.
Still reminds me of the words of Thomas Jefferson, “I can sooner believe that a couple of Yankee professors would lie than believe that rocks fall from the sky.” Even healthy skepticism is ocassionally proven wrong.
I saw a fireball in West Virginia once. Was chaperoning for my daughter’s HS summer band camp. Each night, two chaperones had to sit out at the gate separating the girls’ lodging from the boys’. The chaperone mom was facing east, I was facing west. Clear, moonless night - perfect night for a camper rendezvous so we drank coffee to stay alert.
All of a sudden about 2:00am it streaked across the sky in front of me. It only stayed in view for a second or two before it disappeared somewhere into the WV mountains. I was the only one who saw it - the mom chaperone only saw a flash of light, and she thought someone had flashed a camera.
Do you realize, on a cosmic basis, how close you came to buying it? A space rock just came hurtling straight at you at 20,000 MPH and missed you by only a few miles. (Read my tagline).
The most impressive meteor I ever saw was at 29 Palms, CA in the mid 80’s. Our training exercise had ended for the day and I was getting ready to hit the rack. I was admiring the stars in the desert sky for a moment when I saw this fiery ball more or less stationary. It lasted for about 4-5 seconds and then disappeared. It didn’t streak across the sky and there was no noise. Just a circular ball of fire. My guess is I saw a meteor coming straight at my location that burned up high in the atmosphere.
