[Red Badger]

Have you ever ‘heard’ the meteors? I have heard a few, they make a popping sound like a 22LR if you are directly underneath, and a sizzling sound if you are far off angle.

But that was when I could hear as a young man....................

When I was in the USMC going to the rifle range early one morning, just before dawn, there was a really huge green fireball on the horizon that made no sound, but it was spectacular, circa 1976 or so................

[real saxophonist]

I was working overnight security at a plant in south Georgia in the early '90s, and was walking across the parking lot to check the gate. Bright green meteor, and it made a sizzling sound, like a sparkler.

I read the next day that it landed in North Carolina.

[Conan the Librarian]

Never have I had that pleasure. And now, with my hearing also going, it’s becoming less likely.

I have seen a LOT of things in the sky at night (been an amateur astronomer for about 45 years now), including what I think was a aurora spark on magnetic line during the previous solar maximum, but, I haven’t been able to hear a meteor.