I'm starting to receive reports of a fireball southwest of Baltimore Monday evening. Here are two of them:

From Donna Caudle: "My husband and I were driving last night (1/7/08) through Perry Hall, MD when we spotted a blue-green fall fireball speeding to some site not far from us ... We were traveling near the area of Magdlet Rd in Perry Hall and Joppa was closed for some accident. I would say we were facing north west when we spotted it falling the the direction of Carney or Towson. The time was about 8:50 pm last night ,Monday the 7th of Janurary "

And, from Jeff Ceccola, who has reported before: "Frank, I was lucky enough to see another fireball tonight (1/7/08). Twice in a 2 months. I fear my friends are going to think I'm fibbing when I tell them about this one.
This one was to the southwest, in front of the constellation Cetus. It had a greenish hue, with a magnitude of about a -4, lasting no more than 3 seconds.

I was in West Chester, Pa., the event occurred about 8:40 PM. From my POV, it was to the SW at about a 30 degree angle, falling from SW to W.
Since my first event, I've been doing a lot more star gazing and have studied sky maps. I'm sure my increased interest is why I was lucky enough to see yet another fireball..

Let me know if anyone has seen this one. Look for you in the Sun. -Jeff"

If anyone else out there saw this object, please send me a comment. Be sure to include the time you saw it, where you were, which direction it was going relative to your location, any sounds that seemed to accompany the event, and any other descriptive details you have. Here is more on what to include.

You can also file a fireball report with the International Meteor Organization, or the American Meteor Society. Last night's object has not yet turned up on the AMC Fireball Log for 2008.

Never seen a fireball? Well, here's one in a terrific image captured Nov. 2, 2005, by Mark Vornhusen of Germany and published by NASA. It is NOT Monday's object. But if you got a picture of it, send it to me and I'll replace this one with yours.

©Mark Vornhusen
Fireball in Germany, Nov. 2, 2005