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Alaska: Meteor lights up Muldoon


Channel 2 News
Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:48 UTC
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© Courtesy FAAA meteor was captured on this weather webcam falling past Muldoon into the Chugach Mountains Sunday morning.
Anchorage -- People watching the skies over Muldoon saw something unusual Sunday morning.

Tower officials at Merrill Field say a bright object, caught on a Federal Aviation Administration weather webcam, fell from the sky east of Muldoon.

Elmendorf Air Force Base and NORAD confirm it was a meteor, streaking through the sky and crashing into the Chugach Mountains. They say we're in the midst of a meteor shower -- the third one this week.
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California teacher reports fireball sighting

Gary Robbins
The Orange County Register
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:22 UTC
Doug Peltz, a science teacher at LePort Upper Elementary & Jr. High, says he saw a bright fireball (meteor) Sunday night from Irvine and is wondering whether others saw the same thing. He's reported the sighting to Orange County Astronomers, one of the country's largest amateur astronomy groups. (Numerous other readers say they saw something. Check Comments below.)

Peltz said in an email that, "At 9:39 p.m. (Sunday, Jan. 10), from East Irvine (Portola Springs), I just witnessed the brightest fireball I've ever seen! It lit up the whole sky, such that my wife at first thought it was lightning.

"Definitely bright blue in color, and it streaked from between Castor & Pollux (Gemini) and Mars. Tracing the path backwards, it seemed to me that its radiant point was perhaps the constellation Auriga. I even heard a crackling sound as it streaked.
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Fireball seen over Montreal


CBC News
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:27 UTC
A meteor crashing through the Earth's atmosphere could be responsible for sightings of a fireball over Montreal Thursday night, astronomers said.

Montrealer Humberto Dramasino witnessed the sight as he was driving home in the city's St-Laurent district around 7:30 p.m.

"I saw a fireball just below the clouds," Dramasino said. "It was losing pieces in the air while it was flying and it was very, very fast."

The spectacle lasted no more than a few seconds, Dramasino said.

Montreal-based astronomer Andrew Fazekas, who runs the website thenightskyguy.com, confirmed the description of the object matched that of a meteor.

Fazekas said he received reports of the fireball from at least five others, including from as far away as Saint-Eustache, about 30 kilometres north of Montreal.
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Green meteor lights up night sky


The Telegraph
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:24 UTC
Green meteor Mojave
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A green meteor was seen over the Mojave Desert in California as part of the annual Geminid meteor shower.

Astro-photogrpaher Wally Pacholka captured the annual cosmic fireworks show under dark and clear skies on Monday.

The meteor shower has been growing in intensity in recent decades and was enhanced this year by it falling in a nearly moonless week.
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UK: Daylight fireball reported

Asha Mehta
Peterborough Today
Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:17 UTC
Sightings of a rare daylight "fireball" - thought to be a meteor - was seen flashing over the Wisbech skies.

A meteor which has passed through Earth's atmosphere is known as a meteorite, and experts say pieces of the space rock could now be scattered across a Fenland field.

It was spotted by Jimmy Greenwood, who was driving along the A47 just outside Wisbech at about 1.15pm on Saturday. The 45-year-old, from Upwell, said: "I've never seen anything like it. It was about four houses high and burning white. It went straight across quickly, into a field and disappeared. It had a vapour trail. It was unbelievable."
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Flame-Shooting UFO (Meteor?) Spotted Near A47


Lynn News
Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:53 UTC
A motorist travelling towards Lynn was amazed when he saw a flame-spewing UFO shoot across the sky and then disappear before his eyes.

Jimmy Greenwood (45) is convinced the flying object, about the size of a football, was a meteorite, but is appealing to Lynn News readers to help him find out for sure.

Mr Greenwood was driving along the A47, just outside of Wisbech, at around 12:45pm on Saturday when he saw a bright white light travel across the sky with flames coming out behind it.

He said: "I was on my way to see my daughter. It was snowing and I was driving around 35 to 40mph. I saw this really bright light over the fields to my right for about two to three seconds and then it just burned away. It looked like a firework rocket and was moving really quickly.
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China: Fireball in Beijing

Cui Xiaohuo
China Daily
Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:43 UTC
Beijing fireball
The search continues for a full moon-bright meteoroid likely to have landed in west suburban Beijing on Wednesday in what astronomers said could lead to one of the biggest discoveries in Beijing this year.

Witnesses in Beijing and nearby Tianjin recorded a clearly visible fireball-like meteorite descending near the west horizon of Beijing at 10:23 pm on Dec 16.

The surveillance camera from the planetarium taped a 2-second footage of the fall phenomena, in which a bright shooting star, carrying a visible tail, flew towards the east and exploded into greater brightness before disappearing on the horizon.

"We were at Jianxiangqiao Bridge when driving west-bound on the North Fourth Ring Road when we caught sight of the brightness moving to the southeast," Li Xin, a researcher with the Beijing Planetarium, wrote on the organization's online forum before posting the surveillance video right after the witness.

"The brightness of the meteor was close to a full moon," he wrote. "If this meteorite can be recovered, it can become one of the biggest discoveries in Beijing."
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England: Huge 'fireball' seen hovering, then moving, then hovering...


UK UFO Sightings
Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:45 UTC
England ufo
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Posted: December 20, 2009

Location of Sighting: Rudheath, Cheshire
Date of Sighting: 16th December 2009
Time: 6:15

I was driving through Rudheath, Cheshire on Wednesday 16th December at approx 6.15 and was in traffic when I saw what I can only describe as a huge fireball. At first I thought it was an aeroplane on fire. It was hovering in the sky to my right very low, about the height of 2 or 3 houses then it moved right in front of me. It hovered there for perhaps 30 seconds then shot off southbound traveling higher and higher until it went totally out of sight.
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Fireball: Curious Events In Nebraska: Dec. 16, 2009


SpaceWeather
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:51 UTC
Earthquakes don't rock Nebraska very often. In fact, seismically speaking, it is one of the quietest places in North America. Nevertheless, on Dec. 16th at 8:54 pm CST, USGS seismographs detected a magnitude 3.5 temblor centered near Auburn, Nebraska:

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"It sounded like those loud grain haulers that drive by, but about five times louder," reports Laurie Riley, who lives near the epicenter. "The whole house shook. My kids came running down stairs - they were scared. It even moved my car, [which was parked outside on icy ground]."

And then the really curious thing happened.
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US: Mysterious booms questioned

Foss Farrar
The Arkansas city Traveler
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:30 UTC
Stop. Hey, what's that sound?

Several Arkansas City area residents reported hearing explosion-type sounds or sonic booms recently. But authorities can't seem to pinpoint the source of the sounds.

Elmer Morris, a World War II veteran, today said he heard the booms two or three times on Monday and several more times Tuesday. The booms were heard during daylight hours, he said.

Morris said the sounds are very similar to sonic booms he heard while in the military and on the West Coast.
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