Fire in the Sky

Huge fireball seen all over Ireland

Mark Dunphy
The Clare Herald
Sun, 08 Nov 2015 15:07 UTC

Fireball (representative image)

Hundreds of reports of a massive fireball streaking across the skies over Ireland on Sunday night have been posted on social media.

Fireballs are caused when a large rock from space burns up in the atmosphere as it collides with Earth at speeds of the order of 100,000 mph.

Reports on social media suggest the fireball (featured over Kildare tonight in the video) was seen all over the island, including County Clare where one Clare Herald reader from Corofin said the sky lit up for five seconds as the blueish/greenish fireball crossed the country from west to east at approximately 8.13pm.

Anyone who saw the fireball is being asked to fill in an online report form on Astronomy Ireland's website 'astronomy.ie'.

Fireball explodes over Nydek, Czech Republic

Lunar Meteorite Hunters
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 01:53 UTC

Nýdek, Czech Republic Bolide Fireball Meteor captured 0153 UTC 07NOV2015.

Multiple meteor fireballs seen across US Northeast

News Works
Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:10 UTC

A "heat map" of fireball spottings over the New Jersey region last night.

If you saw a bright objects race across the sky between 9 p.m. and midnight yesterday, you're not alone.

Some took to the internet to post reports about fireballs passing overhead.

According to eyewitness reports on the American Meteor Society (AMS) website, the fireballs ranged from yellow and orange to green.

A fireball is another term for a very bright meteor, according to the American Meteor Society (AMS). AMS says "several thousand" fireballs occur each day, but they are rarely seen.

"The vast majority of these, however, occur over the oceans and uninhabited regions, and a good many are masked by daylight. Those that occur at night also stand little chance of being detected due to the relatively low numbers of persons out to notice them," a fireball FAQ from AMS notes.

Second meteor fireball in two weeks streaks across Hong Kong sky

Coconuts Hong Kong
Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:00 UTC

A ball of light was seen painting the Yuen Long bright green for a flash last night. The same mysterious light was seen zipping across Bangkok's night sky on Monday, with a celebrity fortune teller interpreting it as a sign that doomsday was coming.

Sorry to rain on your parade, Nostradamus 2.0, but those burning green fires were not foretelling future death and destruction. While their vibrancy fooled us into thinking they were some kind of silent Bonfire Night display, they are most likely fragments of a comet which has been disintegrating for the past 20,000-30,000 years. So you may have missed the boat on that one.

The "fireballs" are called Taurids, and occur around late October and early November every year, earning them the nickname of "Halloween fireballs". And here we were, losing our minds over regular old Halloween balls.

Surprisingly, a Taurid was also filmed in Yuen Long two weeks ago, ages before they're normally due to appear (what a keen bean). We're a tad disappointed that we didn't get to see them on HK island, but at least now we know where to be with our necks craned this time next year!

NASA reveals radio telescope images of 'Spooky' asteroid that zipped past Earth on Halloween

RT
Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:33 UTC

Ready for a "Spooky" close-up? NASA is showing off high-res images of the 400-meter-wide (1,300 feet) asteroid that zipped past Earth on Halloween, revealing its eerie skull-like face.

Nicknamed "Spooky" for its skull-resembling shape, the asteroid - otherwise known by its NASA classification as 2015 TB145 - was flying 480,000 kilometers from Earth when it passed on October 31. It was impossible to see that far away, but now NASA pictures allow us to take a closer peek.

The agency used huge, Earth-based radio telescopes and antennas to capture the images. By bouncing radar signals off the asteroid, NASA created a detailed picture of Spooky's surface.

"The radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145 show portions of the surface not seen previously and reveal pronounced concavities, bright spots that might be boulders, and other complex features that could be ridges," said Lance Benner, who leads NASA's asteroid radar research program at its jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Bright fireball reported over New Hampshire skies

Josh Judge
wmur.com
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:50 UTC

Fireball (representative image)

Many News 9 viewers reported seeing a bright fireball streaking across the sky over the weekend. Meteorologist Josh Judge take a look at what might have caused it.

Huge meteor fireball lights up skies over Thailand

Sott.net
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:34 UTC

A huge meteor fireball was observed over Thailand on November 2nd 2015 at approximately 20:39.

Comment: A couple of months ago a massive daytime meteor fireball was also witnessed in Thailand

Bright fireball lights up the sky over Bangkok

RT
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:12 UTC

A bright fireball lit up the night sky above Bangkok on Monday, as an objected suspected to be a meteor burnt up in the atmosphere over Thailand.

The flash could be seen in several parts of the country, including the capital, Thai media report. Dashcam videos published soon after the fireball hit the sky show the dark night turn into day for a few seconds.

According to the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, it is suspected that the fireball was a small meteor that burnt up in the atmosphere at a high altitude.

Meteor smoke trail? Mysterious cloud formation seen floating over Yanqi Basin, China

Chloe Lyme
Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:33 UTC

The mysterious clouds were seen on the morning of Sunday above a barracks and last for about an hour

A mysterious cloud formation was spotted floating over northwest China's Yanqi Basin yesterday.

Residents in the area noticed the colourful cloud in the morning, describing it as a 'huge question mark hanging in the northern sky,' reports The People's Daily Online.

Pictures of the unusual phenomenon have sent the Chinese online community into overdrive with many speculating what the shadowy object could be.

Fireball seen over the Netherlands and Belgium

Sott.net
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 22:33 UTC

The Dutch Astroblogs reported that on Tuesday 27th October several observers in the Netherlands and Belgium saw a bright fireball in the sky at around 19:30 CET. Reports of this sighting were also posted on the 'fireball reports' page of the International Meteor Organization. According to observers, the duration of the fireball varied from 3.5 to 7.5 seconds, and the brightness varied greatly between -4m and -22m, the latter being brighter than the full moon, as Astroblogs' editor Arie Nouwen notes.

Marcel, one of the Dutch observers who was in Enschede at the time, said that the color of the fireball was white. The "falling star", as some call it, was also seen above the city Alkmaar. Where exactly the fireball in Belgium was seen was not specified.

19:22 uur #vallende ster #meteoriet boven Alkmaar gezien— Marco Polle (@PolleMarco) October 27, 2015

Comment: See also: Fireball over Poland captured on video

Quote of the Day

State power has its own limits defined by the fact that it is authority that reaches people from outside. State power cannot oversee and dictate the creative states of the soul and mind, the inner states of love, freedom and goodwill. The state cannot demand from its citizens faith, prayer, love, goodness and conviction. It cannot regulate scientific, religious and artistic creation. It should not intervene in moral, family and daily private life, and only when extremely necessary should it impinge on people's economic initiative and creativity.

- Ivan Ilyin

Ashes to ashes, bones to dust. R.C.

Rowan Cocoan

*cough cough* Nothing to see here... LAUNDERED: California state controller issues checks worth $320 billion in 2018, refuses to divulge where...

sir_isO

Had the exact same thing happen to me on a flight from Orlando to Newark in 87 or so. (This is a short version.) As we were in and out of the...

Rowan Cocoan

CHEMTRAIL PILOT SPEAKS OUT ABOUT THE GENOCIDE GOING ON ABOVE US - IT'S NOTHING A BULLET CAN'T FIX [Link]

parzival

Credit cards with carbon limits and universal obedience by Jon Rappoport [Link] * Millions obey mass imprisonments And line up for the genetic...

parzival

Fire in the Sky

Huge fireball seen all over Ireland

Fireball explodes over Nydek, Czech Republic

Multiple meteor fireballs seen across US Northeast

Second meteor fireball in two weeks streaks across Hong Kong sky

NASA reveals radio telescope images of 'Spooky' asteroid that zipped past Earth on Halloween

Bright fireball reported over New Hampshire skies

Huge meteor fireball lights up skies over Thailand

Bright fireball lights up the sky over Bangkok

Meteor smoke trail? Mysterious cloud formation seen floating over Yanqi Basin, China

Fireball seen over the Netherlands and Belgium

Latest News

Picture of the Day

Quote of the Day

Recent Comments

Quantum Quirk

Contact Us