
Fire in the Sky
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Initial Sighting Reports:
04DEC2012 Brian Puyear Kansas City MO, USA 2137 8 seconds E-W, Left to Right, East orange Brighter than a stat. as bright as a plane or helicopter at the very end Thise ar e the facts, but I have to say. that was a big, long fucking meteor.
04DEC2012 Craig Hillis Harviell, Missouri USA 2135 15-20 seconds 2136 Green ball of light with sparks trailing behind it. Large smoke trail afterwards moon yes Second time i have witnessed this in a month and a half.
04DEC2012 loudtrumpet Belleville Illinois USA 2139 CMT 4 seconds N-S Multi-colored - No sound until no longer visable, then faint impact sound Moon No Like a shooting star, but much closer and more colorful.
04DEC2012 Jim Hillsboro, Illinois, USA 2135 US Central appx. 4-6 sec facing S travelled E-W white at start, began to fade, then became orange and brighter brighter than moon, less than sun none observed the color change was amazing!
04DEC2012 Shelby Shariatzadeh Chicago, IL 21:30:00 1-2 seconds North Yellow/White A little brighter than Venus no This was the second one I saw tonight in Chicago which is a bright city and you don't see many stars.
Reader Comments
We were on rt 267 by roadhouse Illinois on the night of Dec.4th.Approx 9:15 pm .I was the passenger in our car and witnessed the awesome view to the west ,LARGE bright ball yellow/orange with a trail behind it of transparent lavender and light green.I watched it for a good 10 secs.I have never witnessed anything like it!!!!!!!Wasn't sure what i was seeing but i vividly remember it!!!
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I live in mid-state Illinois and I think I saw this very one. It was to the east and was visible for about 5-6 seconds for the duration of time that I saw it, and I think I viewed the "tail-ending" of it, so to speak.
It had a orange color that then faded to green, as some of the other reports seem to indicate. I also noticed that the it was "breaking up", with material behind it.