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A fireball meteorite is seen at 0:15 during the SF Giants/CO Rockies game at Coors Field in Denver, CO on 8/3/12. Dave Flemming is announcing on Comcast Sports Bay Area channel. Giants won 16-4! This must have been an extremly bright fireball as it is visible from behind cloud cover!
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The Frenchtown resident and his wife, Maria, were driving to the Clinton park-and-ride lot shortly before 6 a.m. when, after passing the Clinton A&P supermarket, he saw a green-tinged white ball of light burst across the sky in an easterly direction.
The flash, which lasted between four and six seconds, was as bright as a full moon, he said.
"If you were outside, you were going to see this," he said.
Reports of a large meteor had many people buzzing Wednesday morning.
Viewers called the KCRA 3 newsroom and the sheriff's departments in several parts of Northern California, along with Reno, to ask about a meteor that appeared about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Witnesses said it lasted for about four seconds and lit up the sky.
Online meteor tracking sites and blogs report the meteor could be seen over parts of Oregon, California and Nevada.
If you got a shot of it, please submit it through our u local page.
Viewers called the KCRA 3 newsroom and the sheriff's departments in several parts of Northern California, along with Reno, to ask about a meteor that appeared about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Witnesses said it lasted for about four seconds and lit up the sky.
Online meteor tracking sites and blogs report the meteor could be seen over parts of Oregon, California and Nevada.
If you got a shot of it, please submit it through our u local page.
© djournal.com
Lee County dispatchers received calls about a loud noise and vibrations on Monday afternoon, but there was no sign of any explosion, earthquake or anything else that could cause such a noise, said Lee County E911 Director Paul Harkins.
Lee County dispatchers received "no more than five or 10 calls," he said, and Itawamba County dispatchers also received calls, he said.
Several fire crews checked the area for signs of smoke or debris, but found nothing.
"This happens every so often. We have a little something like this and we can't figure out what it is," he said.
© Prensa Latina
According to the inhabitants of that region near the border with Nicaragua, a fireball crossed the sky on Saturday night and then they heard a loud explosion.
A COPECO statement clarified that no specialized agency reported a meteorite passing by the Central American region, nor has reported the loss of an aircraft.
Copeco and the astronomical observatory of the National Autonomous University of Honduras said their experts in the field are investigating what happened in that region and will report as soon as possible, while they called on people not to generate speculation to avoid uncertainty
Filmed from four all-sky cameras in Japan, August 19th, 2012.
A woman living near Riding Mountain believes she found meteorites close to her home.
On Wednesday, she found two fragments with surfaces like "old elephant skin," one the size of a football, the other larger, weighing about 25 kilograms.
In the middle of the night on Tuesday, Nicole Nixon's house suddenly became bright and there was a loud bang. She thought something hit the house.
"It was a terrifying experience. At first I thought it was a bomb," she said.
In the morning, Nixon went outside to find her horses cut, likely from hitting barbed wire after being spooked.
While walking through her property looking for the cause of the ruckus, she found what she believes to be two meteorites lying on shale rock.
On Wednesday, she found two fragments with surfaces like "old elephant skin," one the size of a football, the other larger, weighing about 25 kilograms.
In the middle of the night on Tuesday, Nicole Nixon's house suddenly became bright and there was a loud bang. She thought something hit the house.
"It was a terrifying experience. At first I thought it was a bomb," she said.
In the morning, Nixon went outside to find her horses cut, likely from hitting barbed wire after being spooked.
While walking through her property looking for the cause of the ruckus, she found what she believes to be two meteorites lying on shale rock.
© AFP Photo/Jack GuezIsraeli emergency personnel stand around wondering what caused the explosions. No impact sites and no rockets were found.
The explosions hit Eilat near the city's border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsular on Wednesday evening, and were felt throughout the city. No casualties were reported.
"We heard two loud explosions. It was really scary, last time this happened the entire house shook," Eilat resident Rotem told Israeli newspaper Ynet.
"People on the street just froze in their tracks. It was frightening. Maybe it's time that sirens are installed in Eilat as well," said another resident of Eilat.
Several rockets have been fired at Eilat this year, which Israeli authorities believe were launched from neighboring Sinai by Islamist militants.
Best of the Web: Meteorite starts fire in Itatiba, Brazil following separate Fireball incident in neighbouring Campinas days earlier
Translated by SOTT.net reader
After reports of an alleged fall of a fireball associated with a meteor shower over the weekend in Campinas, now it's Itatiba's turn to be subject to searches for evidence of meteorite fragments. The suspicion is that this object may have crashed into someone's property in the city last Monday. Astronomer Julio Lobo was on location throughout the day yesterday and believes this hypothesis, especially given the characteristics of the fall witnessed by the caretaker of a property. After Correio published a story about the fireball, the editorial staff has received six e-mails from readers reporting that they saw this very bright event. The astronomer explained that the phenomena in Campinas and Itatiba have no relation with each other, but the two incidents indicate that the sky is "busy."
According to the caretaker Jose Oliveira dos Santos, 52, on Monday afternoon, around 2.30 pm, he heard a noise like a jet and then a strong thump on the ground a few meters from his house, on the hill. "There's a flight corridor here, but this buzz was different. It was a sort of whistling at a rapid speed and then it diminished, with a very strong noise. I saw nothing, only listened. After the crash, I saw the fire and immediately phoned the owners of the grange," he said. For the astronomer, this account is considered "classic" of cases in which meteorite falls have been recorded, such as in the city of Varre-Sai, Rio de Janeiro, two years ago. Besides the information of the witness, Lobo listed other evidence.
After reports of an alleged fall of a fireball associated with a meteor shower over the weekend in Campinas, now it's Itatiba's turn to be subject to searches for evidence of meteorite fragments. The suspicion is that this object may have crashed into someone's property in the city last Monday. Astronomer Julio Lobo was on location throughout the day yesterday and believes this hypothesis, especially given the characteristics of the fall witnessed by the caretaker of a property. After Correio published a story about the fireball, the editorial staff has received six e-mails from readers reporting that they saw this very bright event. The astronomer explained that the phenomena in Campinas and Itatiba have no relation with each other, but the two incidents indicate that the sky is "busy."
According to the caretaker Jose Oliveira dos Santos, 52, on Monday afternoon, around 2.30 pm, he heard a noise like a jet and then a strong thump on the ground a few meters from his house, on the hill. "There's a flight corridor here, but this buzz was different. It was a sort of whistling at a rapid speed and then it diminished, with a very strong noise. I saw nothing, only listened. After the crash, I saw the fire and immediately phoned the owners of the grange," he said. For the astronomer, this account is considered "classic" of cases in which meteorite falls have been recorded, such as in the city of Varre-Sai, Rio de Janeiro, two years ago. Besides the information of the witness, Lobo listed other evidence.
Comment: Note that they found no impact sites and no rockets. Meanwhile war preparations against Iran are being hyped to the max again:
Israel media talk of imminent Iran war push
Israel ready for 30-day war after Iran strike