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Daytime fireball explodes over Queensland, Australia, leaves visible trail

Meghan Kidd
Central Queensland News, Australia
Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:48 UTC
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The suspicious cloud of smoke which appeared in the sky on Monday is said to have been a meteorite. Plenty of locals witnessed the event.
A loud boom followed by a cloud of smoke in the sky had many Central Highlands residents taking a closer look on Monday.

Many residents speculated the theory behind the mysterious object was a meteorite heading for Earth at the speed of sound and disintegrating on entry.

A spokesman from the Bureau of Meteorology said that theory was most likely the correct explanation.

"We had a call from an Emerald resident at about 7pm (Monday night), wanting to know what it was," the spokesman said.

"It could have been a meteorite... or it may have been a bit of space debris."

If it was a meteorite, it could have been about 20,000 feet high, and the sound residents heard would have been a shockwave.
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Green fireball observed over Vancouver, 15 November 2012

Raymond
agoracosmopolitan.com
Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:35 UTC
A resident of Vancouver, Canada has reported sighting a green fireball in the sky, on the 15th of November, 2012 at 8:57 PM. This report has been obtained from a testimony included in the database of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).

The witness describes the location, time and direction of the sighting.

"I was standing on the south side of West 4th St almost at the corner (2 blocks in) of Lonsdale Ave and West 4th, North Vancouver, BC, talking to a friend/colleague when I observed at exactly 8:57pm (20:57) PST a green object moving through the clouds heading in a North Westerly direction."

He also describes its movement.

"As the object passed over my head, it appeared to be descending and/or losing altitude, rate of speed unknown."

The witness then describes his first impression of the object.

"First thought/impression was a flare then a unique meteor (see Wikipedia - Green Fireballs)."
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Fireball "bright as the moon" seen across California and Nevada, 24 November 2012


lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.ca
Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC
24 November 2012 - Brett Hankins Sonora, CA USA PST 5 seconds 9:05 N E
white lots of sparks moon yes it was huge and looked almost like the moon falling
24 November 2012 - David Wright Fallon, NV, US 2100 Pacific time
About 1 sec ~45deg above horizon to S, travel down, SS W. Bright Green, and broke apart VERY bright, like aircraft landing light. Yes, appeared to explode and trail pieces.
24 November 2012 - Patty Howard Clovis, CA USA 9:05 PM Pacific
7 seconds Facing north Bright yellow and red sun huge flame it looked so close, right over my head. didnt have time to grab my phone out of my pocket. it was amazing. Area was around Herndon Avenue 1/4 mile from Acadmey, Clovis, CA
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Large red-green fireball fragments low over Queensland, Australia, momentarily turning night into day, 21 November 2012


lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com
Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:28 UTC
21 November 2012 - Jeff Redlynch, Cairns, QLD, Australia approx 2300 GMT+10 approx
3-4 seconds duration. Looking South, meteor travelled in a SW direction. Very bright green, lit up the sky with green light, central yellow/orange flame much brighter than the moon. Fragmented as it travelled across the sky, bits streaking and broke up into 2 or 3 large pieces before disappearing. At first I thought it was someone letting off a boat flare, but it couldn't be as it was far too high and over land. Amazingly vivid green light lit up the whole sky to the South, with an orange flaming centre.
21 November 2012 - David Vincent, Townsville Qld 22:52:00
Just seen lasted for aprox 3 seconds. I was facing North, it traveled from right to left. Bright white then a bright green. Very bright, seen through tinted windows. Was very low in the sky.
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Mystery surrounds Ingham sound and light show


ABC News, Australia
Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:08 UTC
Ingham residents are still trying to work out what caused a bright light and a large bang over the town on Wednesday night.

Local man Andrew says the region is still buzzing over what caused the strange sound and light show.

He says there is no shortage of theories about what it was.

"For me I thought it was something breaking the speed barrier and or coming into the atmosphere and yes I didn't really think about it too much at the time but I think definitely there was something either flying through the air or something coming into the atmosphere," he said.

He says people in the town are convinced it was a meteorite.

"I thought that a fuel drum or something had blown up underneath my house and I went outside, investigated, and I spoke to my neighbour and they said they saw a white light and they definitely heard the noise as well," he said.

"Yes I didn't know what the noise was but it was very loud."
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Fireball seen from Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee caught on NASA Allsky cameras, 19 November 2012


lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com
Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:25 UTC
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Neon Aqua Markers= Sighting Report
Red Markers= Camera Capture
v.1 (c) LunarMeteorite*Hunter / Google Earth

Meteor video captured by the ASGARD Allsky System at Huntsville, Alabama
Credit: Dr. Bill Cooke, NASA
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Fireball brighter than the full moon lights up New Mexico, 9 November 2012

Alan Pickup
The Guardian
Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:45 UTC
A fireball that blazed brighter than the full moon as it streaked across New Mexico's sky on 9 November may be related to Comet Encke and perhaps to the object that exploded over Tunguska in 1908, flattening more than 2,000 sq km of Siberian forest.

Every October and November bring a flurry of fireballs from a pair of meteor showers whose meteors diverge from radiant points in our E evening sky. Called the Northern and Southern Taurids after the constellation Taurus, their meteors are relatively slow at 27-29km per second but few in number, rarely more than five per hour even under ideal dark skies. They do, though, include a good proportion of fireballs which we can define as a meteor that rivals or surpasses Venus in brightness. There seem to have been more fireballs than usual this year.


Comment: There have been more fireballs than usual this year. We wonder what's 'up'?


Taurids follow similar solar orbits to Comet Encke, though it is not clear whether their material comes from that comet or an earlier and larger predecessor. One theory for the origin of the Tunguska object is that it, too, was a fragment of Comet Encke or its predecessor.

Another meteor shower, the Leonids, peaks on Saturday but is likely to fall well short of the stunning displays it gave a few years ago. Its very swift (72km per second) meteors stream away from a radiant in the Sickle of Leo which climbs from low in the ENE at 23:00 to high on the meridian by dawn. Peak rates may touch 15 per hour but should already be declining as the radiant rises that night.
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Weird red rain in India panics people: 'Blood red' rain falls


Examiner.com
Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:11 UTC
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A view of the 'red rain' falling in India
On Thursday, July 5, 2012, around 6:50 p.m. local time, a mysterious red rain shower fell for about 15 minutes in Kannur, Kerala, India. Locales within a one kilometer area in the Indian state of Kerala experienced this phenomenon, as it filled courtyards with blood red rain and stained people's clothes pink.
View slideshow: Mysterious red rain in India some form of extraterrestrial life?

Nostradamus, Century 2, Quatrain 46
After a great misery for mankind an even greater approaches. The great cycle of the centuries is renewed: It will rain blood, milk, famine, war and disease.In the sky will be seen a fire, dragging a tail of sparks.
Kannur block panchayat President Shaija M collected a sample of the mysterious red rainwater. It was dark and had the smell of raw beetroot. His first thought was that an animal had been killed and its blood had mixed with the rainwater in the courtyard.

However, this is not the first time this "mysterious red rain" has fallen in the state of Kerala. Actually, it has been reported several times during the past decade.
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Fireball pictured in the sky over Chelmsford, UK is a burning mystery

James Drummond
This Is Total Essex
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:09 UTC
Fireball
© This Is Total Essex
Debris: This piece detached from the fireball, Eleanor said.
These photographs apparently show a large fireball in the skies above Chelmsford.

The pictures are just two of a series taken by Eleanor Collop, 13, and her 17-year-old sister Leanne, after they spotted the 'meteor' from outside their home on the Beechenlea Estate.

The burning object was seen high in the sky last Friday at 4pm and appeared to fall to earth, leaving the sisters to wonder whether they had just witnessed a plane crash.

Eleanor, a student at Hylands School, said: "I haven't seen anything like that before - it was so bright."

She spotted the object - with a distinctive fiery core and long, forked tail - as she got ready for her after-school paper-round.

"I was just taking my trolley from the garage when I caught sight of it," said Eleanor.

"At first I thought it was a plane but it got brighter and brighter.

"I shouted for my sister and then we called our dad, who told us to take a picture."

The fireball - thought to be caused by debris burning up in the earth's atmosphere - spent five minutes visible in the Chelmsford sky before it disappeared behind some houses.

"I'm not sure what it was but it was bright and it definitely looked like it was burning," added Eleanor, who used a normal ten-megapixel camera to capture the images.
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Strange lights in sky likely Taurid meteors

Eric Stevick
Herald Net
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:17 UTC
Everett, Washington, US -- Another night, another fireball.

The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call of streaking light in the night sky around 10:15 p.m. Thursday. It was similar to reports on Halloween night from people seeing a strange light in north Snohomish and Skagit counties.

One caller on Halloween described a large explosion of white light and thought it might have been a plane crash off I-5.

Shari Ireton, the sheriff's office spokeswoman, did some investigating Friday morning. She talked to a NASA scientist who believes he has an explanation: Taurid meteors.

He referred her to a NASA web page that offers a description of why the fireballs often can be seen each fall.
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