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Did a meteorite start a fire and leave a small crater in Florida?

Michael Paluska
ABC
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:23 UTC

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A ball of fire, then a small crater left behind. The owners tell us something had to hit the fence; something had to have been hot enough to set a patch of trees on fire and burn the siding of a nearby building.

The question now, what was it?

That is the mystery some people who live on Holmes Beach are trying to solve.

"All of a sudden fire started, and nobody knows why," Carol Whitmore said.

Whitmore was out walking her dog around 10:15 p.m. Friday when she looked across the street and saw a fire on her neighbor's property. The flames were along the side of the house on the property line burning in a bank of trees.

The heat was strong enough to char the siding of a nearby shed.

Comment: That NASA "expert" is anything but. There are documented cases of finding small meteorites immediately after landfall. They are always described as hot.

Meteor fireball filmed over Sarasota, Florida

Mysuncoast.com
Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:58 UTC

Did you see the fireball that lit up the Suncoast sky?

Dozens of people, including ABC7′s Chief Meteorologist Bob Harrigan, saw an apparent meteor last night.

Shortly before midnight on Thursday, January 16, Gail tells ABC7 she saw a huge fireball streak across the sky. She was watching TV, facing her backdoor, when she saw what looked like a comet with a tail going horizontally through the sky. She says, "It was AWESOME!"

ABC7 posted about it on Facebook to see if anyone got video and, as it happens, Jackie Greenough did. When you watch the video, which is timestamped at 11:57pm, you'll see little chaotic streaks - those are bugs flying about - but look in the upper middle of the screen. You'll see the fireball as it moves decisively across the sky. It lasts at least 13 seconds before moving out of frame.

Hurricanes, earthquakes and now a daytime meteor: Fireball blazes over Puerto Rico in broad daylight

Sputnik News
Sat, 18 Jan 2020 07:14 UTC

The US territory has been jolted by a series of powerful tremors since the beginning of this year. The island has also been recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Maria that ravaged the territory in 2017.

Citizens of Puerto Rico have taken to social media platforms to share photos and videos of an unusual celestial phenomenon they witnessed on Friday afternoon.

In the media posts, a meteor-like fireball was seen swiftly flashing through a blue cloudless sky before disappearing moments later.

Comment: A "rare" event, eh?...

10 Apr 2019: Bright meteor fireball filmed streaking through Puerto Rico skies
27 Jun 2019: Astronomers spotted a car-size asteroid just hours before it exploded over Puerto Rico
26 Jul 2017: Meteor fireball explodes over Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
03 Jun 2016: Bright meteor fireball visible from the entire island of Puerto Rico
03 Apr 2015: Big fireball over Puerto Rico
30 Apr 2014: Meteor fireball blazes over Puerto Rico

Meteor fireball illuminates night sky in Pozan, Poland

The Irish Times
Tue, 07 Jan 2020 01:25 UTC

A bright light, believed to be a meteor, has been captured flashing across the sky in the city of Poznan, Poland:

Video source: Panorama Poznan Online

'Green flash' seen in Fort Collins, Colorado night sky likely a meteor

Erin Edell
Fort Collins Coloradoan
Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:09 UTC

Did you see something unusual streaking across the night sky Friday night?

No, I'm not talking about a drone. At least, I don't think I am.

Regardless, there's no need to have a "let's storm Area 51" moment just yet. Any unusual sightings were likely activity from a Quadrantid meteor shower that peaked late Friday night over Northern Colorado.

Coloradoan reader Krista Vance tipped us off to a bright green ball of light she said she and her 15-year-old daughter Olivia saw streak across the sky while driving north on Taft Hill Road near the Cathy Fromme Prairie area around 9 p.m. Friday.

"It was only visible for two snaps of your fingers, then ... poof ... gone," Vance told the Coloradoan, adding that the sight of the quick green flash gave her goosebumps.

Meteor fireball spotted over Ottawa - Gatineau, Canada

CBC News
Mon, 06 Jan 2020 21:55 UTC

Several people say they spotted what's been described as a bright ball of light whizzing across the sky over Ottawa-Gatineau late Sunday night.

Jason Jones and his wife were driving alongside the Gatineau River near Cantley, Que., just north of Gatineau, when they spotted the object.

"The two big things were the diameter and the brightness," Jones said Monday morning. "It was clearly as bright as Venus or the moon ... and instead of a pinpoint of light with a tail, it was a sphere with a tail."

Christopher Cordick was driving northbound along Eagleson Road in Ottawa's west end when he saw what he described as a "very vibrant light in the sky descending rapidly." Cordick said the time was around 10:10 p.m.

Rooftop cameras capture another meteor fireball over Madison, Wisconsin

Tess Klein
WGBA-TV
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:52 UTC

Rooftop cameras in Madison, Wis. have captured yet another meteor soaring through the nighttime sky.

Meteor fireball blazed over Anchorage, Alaska on 21 Dec 2019

Gilbert Cordova
KTUU
Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:52 UTC

You know the saying, 'shooting star make a wish,' well here is your chance!

Anchorage police posted the video below of a meteor lighting up the night sky in Anchorage on Dec. 21.

Meteor believed to have caused loud boom, flash of light in Saratoga County, New York

Samantha DiMascio
News10
Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:36 UTC

As many people search for answers after hearing a loud explosion accompanied by a green flash in the sky, Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo said he now believes it may have been a meteor.

"It sounds exactly like a fireball report. They can surprise people. We can't always predict them," said Dr. Valerie Rapson, director of the Dudley Observatory at Siena College and has her PhD in Astrophysics.

She said as soon as she heard the reports meteor came to mind. She said specifically, a "bolide."

"When these rocks come in, they're fairly small, but they're coming in at very high speeds so they can potentially break the sound barrier and actually create this ripple effect that will shake homes or cause explosions," said Dr. Rapson.

Comment: Read SOTT.net's Comets and Catastrophes Series by Laura Knight-Jadczyk for more on the hazards to humanity from meteors and asteroids. Bombardments from space rocks are cyclic in nature and have occurred repeatedly throughout history.

Doorbell camera captures meteor fireball streaking over Saskatoon, Canada

Bryn Levy
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:08 UTC

A Saskatoon man got quite the sight this weekend.

Adam Frank spotted a meteor blazing across the night sky late Saturday night.

His doorbell camera also caught the spectacle from the front of his Hampton Village home.

Sky-watchers will want to keep their eyes peeled for the next few nights, as we are in the midst of the Quadrantids meteor shower, which typically runs from the end of December to about mid-January.

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Fire in the Sky

Did a meteorite start a fire and leave a small crater in Florida?

Meteor fireball filmed over Sarasota, Florida

Hurricanes, earthquakes and now a daytime meteor: Fireball blazes over Puerto Rico in broad daylight

Meteor fireball illuminates night sky in Pozan, Poland

'Green flash' seen in Fort Collins, Colorado night sky likely a meteor

Meteor fireball spotted over Ottawa - Gatineau, Canada

Rooftop cameras capture another meteor fireball over Madison, Wisconsin

Meteor fireball blazed over Anchorage, Alaska on 21 Dec 2019

Meteor believed to have caused loud boom, flash of light in Saratoga County, New York

Doorbell camera captures meteor fireball streaking over Saskatoon, Canada

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