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A sonic boom like sound heard by many late last night is something that has happened before, according to State Police. They tell us that is what it probably is. They tell us there was nothing reported to them last night as far as an explosion or anything suspicious. Delaware's Dover Air Force Base has no information regarding any aircraft from their base that the noise may have been related to.
"At 9 p.m. Central Time on Dec. 16th, a very bright meteor lit up the completely overcast sky like lightning in southeast Nebraska," reports Trooper Jerry Chab of the Nebraska State Patrol. "It flashed for approximately 2 seconds and was followed by ground shaking, which prompted many calls by the public to law enforcement in a three county wide area." The USGS says there was a magnitude 3.5 earthquake near Auburn, Nebraska, at 8:53 pm Wednesday night, about the same time and place as the fireball. Coincidence? Readers in Nebraska with photos or eyewitness accounts are encouraged to submit a report.
© UnknownMeteor in Santiago, Chile?
However, after several inquiries the meteorite hypothesis was dismissed against the hipothesis of a meteorological effect.
According to sources of the Bureau of Aeronautics, it was an aircraft that was headed for Argentina and that, by the effects of temperature difference and contact of the turbine with the cooler air, generated a bright trail that remained in the sky.
Esteban Hermosilla captured this phenomenon in the morning when droving to work from Lo Barnechea to Huechuraba.
"I was going down the Costanera highway and you could clearly see the marked trail, so I took a picture with my cellphone. I didn't know what it was, I was astonished, I thought it was a plane but it was very strange"said Esteban Hermosilla.
"I watched it trail for a tiny bit and then it went, poof !" said Suiker. "And there was this beautiful golden shower. It wasn't huge. It was way up there, but it was pretty beautiful."
Suiker described the flash for her husband, Chris, and compared it to the meteor sighting in November of 2008 near the Alberta/Saskatchewan border (Flash pictured right).
Finding that the sky is blue is not unusual, unless it's 1:15 in the morning.
That's what happened early Friday when observers from western Minnesota to northern Wisconsin reported seeing a bright blue or green flash in the sky.
The National Weather Service in Grand Forks, North Dakota, logged a call at 1:25 a.m. from someone 15 miles west of Bemidji, Minnesota, who reported the sky looked green.
The weather station then heard from a sister station in Duluth, Minn., which passed along observations from law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin, where a huge fireball was seen near the town of Fifield that created temporary mid-day brightness, said Bill Barrett, a Weather Service official in Grand Forks.
That's what happened early Friday when observers from western Minnesota to northern Wisconsin reported seeing a bright blue or green flash in the sky.
The National Weather Service in Grand Forks, North Dakota, logged a call at 1:25 a.m. from someone 15 miles west of Bemidji, Minnesota, who reported the sky looked green.
The weather station then heard from a sister station in Duluth, Minn., which passed along observations from law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin, where a huge fireball was seen near the town of Fifield that created temporary mid-day brightness, said Bill Barrett, a Weather Service official in Grand Forks.
French investigators said they are looking into problems encountered by an Air France jet last month in nearly the same spot over the Atlantic where another Air France jet mysteriously crashed in June.
Air France flight 445 was flying from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France, the night of Nov. 29 when it encountered the problems, the French accident investigation agency, BEA, said in a news release this week.
Air France flight 445 was flying from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France, the night of Nov. 29 when it encountered the problems, the French accident investigation agency, BEA, said in a news release this week.
Wailua - Residents are still talking about the unique light show they witnessed in the evening skies last week.
A "big ol' honking fireball" was what Steve Yoder said he saw while he was on his way to Wailua from Waimea the night of Dec. 2. A "flaming green" object lit up the eastern sky right before 9 p.m.
"I hadn't started drinking yet," he said with a laugh.
In fact, Yoder said he found it hard to believe there has not yet been an explanation for what he saw, much like the loud noise over Kalaheo reported by residents in May of this year.
"I've seen meteorites all my life," he said. But added that what he saw was much different. "It was either a gigantic asteroid or one of the biggest meteorites I have ever seen."
A "big ol' honking fireball" was what Steve Yoder said he saw while he was on his way to Wailua from Waimea the night of Dec. 2. A "flaming green" object lit up the eastern sky right before 9 p.m.
"I hadn't started drinking yet," he said with a laugh.
In fact, Yoder said he found it hard to believe there has not yet been an explanation for what he saw, much like the loud noise over Kalaheo reported by residents in May of this year.
"I've seen meteorites all my life," he said. But added that what he saw was much different. "It was either a gigantic asteroid or one of the biggest meteorites I have ever seen."
Several eyewitnesses reported seeing a bluish-green fireball over northern Germany on Monday night - possibly a large meteor burning up in the Earth's atmosphere, according to experts at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
The object was first sighted over Braunschweig around 11:40 pm, but people in Celle, Delmenhorst, Lüneburg, Grabow, Kiel and Hannover also spotted the fireball streaking across the sky. The Network for Researching Unusual Heavenly Phenomena (CENAP) said on Tuesday the object eventually broke up into brightly glowing pieces before disappearing.
Wilfried Tost from the DLR said the fireball was likely a meteor, explaining that on average one falls to Earth over Central Europe each month.
Last spring, a German meteorite researcher found the remains of another spectacular fireball on the Danish island of Lolland.
The object was first sighted over Braunschweig around 11:40 pm, but people in Celle, Delmenhorst, Lüneburg, Grabow, Kiel and Hannover also spotted the fireball streaking across the sky. The Network for Researching Unusual Heavenly Phenomena (CENAP) said on Tuesday the object eventually broke up into brightly glowing pieces before disappearing.
Wilfried Tost from the DLR said the fireball was likely a meteor, explaining that on average one falls to Earth over Central Europe each month.
Last spring, a German meteorite researcher found the remains of another spectacular fireball on the Danish island of Lolland.
Posted: December 2, 2009
Date of Sighting: November 29, 2009
Time of Sighting: 12:05 to 12:10 AM PST
Location of Sighting: Longview, Washington (Southwestern Washington)
Description: I saw an electric blue streak in the eastern sky. The object was about 1 & 1/2 times the size of the moon at that time. The object was about an inch to the left of the moon, which was visually about a foot above the horizon. I noticed the object when it was at about the height the moon was at this point. It descended towards the horizon in a straight line lasting 1 to 2 seconds although the tail did not really appear to be tapering. I immediately thought meteorite & half expected to hear it impact somewhere east of Longview, Washington. My impression was of a round electric blue, large object moving toward the eastern sky in very rapid stages. Was this a meteorite? I have never seen this color nor an object other than the moon of this size in the sky.
Date of Sighting: November 29, 2009
Time of Sighting: 12:05 to 12:10 AM PST
Location of Sighting: Longview, Washington (Southwestern Washington)
Description: I saw an electric blue streak in the eastern sky. The object was about 1 & 1/2 times the size of the moon at that time. The object was about an inch to the left of the moon, which was visually about a foot above the horizon. I noticed the object when it was at about the height the moon was at this point. It descended towards the horizon in a straight line lasting 1 to 2 seconds although the tail did not really appear to be tapering. I immediately thought meteorite & half expected to hear it impact somewhere east of Longview, Washington. My impression was of a round electric blue, large object moving toward the eastern sky in very rapid stages. Was this a meteorite? I have never seen this color nor an object other than the moon of this size in the sky.
Salt Lake City -- Space buffs have some astounding new calculations about the gigantic fireball that lit up our part of the west two weeks ago. They now estimate the meteor lit up 500,000 square miles bright as day, and they've learned a lot more by studying some spectacular images.
A lot of what people thought is turning out to be wrong. The Nov. 18 fireball was apparently much higher and farther away than it appeared, never closer than 120 miles to Salt Lake City, which makes its brightness all the more amazing.
Dash-cam video from a police car in Grand Junction, Colo, provided vital clues to meteor trackers. Almost 300 miles away, it shows the fireball lighting up the sky, all the way on the opposite side of Utah.
Seth Jarvis of Clark Planetarium calls it God's flash bulb, briefly illuminating a half million square miles.
"From our area here, it was as bright as the sun," he said.
In surveillance video from the Salt Lake valley, the Wasatch Mountains turn from midnight to noon, as if a zillion-watt light bulb switched on.
A lot of what people thought is turning out to be wrong. The Nov. 18 fireball was apparently much higher and farther away than it appeared, never closer than 120 miles to Salt Lake City, which makes its brightness all the more amazing.
Dash-cam video from a police car in Grand Junction, Colo, provided vital clues to meteor trackers. Almost 300 miles away, it shows the fireball lighting up the sky, all the way on the opposite side of Utah.
Seth Jarvis of Clark Planetarium calls it God's flash bulb, briefly illuminating a half million square miles.
"From our area here, it was as bright as the sun," he said.
In surveillance video from the Salt Lake valley, the Wasatch Mountains turn from midnight to noon, as if a zillion-watt light bulb switched on.
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