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What Was Mysterious Light and Sound in the Skies Over Herefordshire?

Paul Broome
Hereford Times
Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:19 UTC
Visitors from another galaxy may have visited Herefordshire over the bank holiday weekend - but they didn't hang around long.

A number of readers reported a mysterious explosion of light and sound in various parts of the county on Monday night.

A flash of light moving quickly and a distant explosion were seen and heard following what appears to have been a meteor shower.

"It happened just overhead and only lasted about five seconds," said John Price, who lives near Kingsland .

"It was a blueish-white sphere, about the size of a football, and was quite low in the sky."

John said the boom of light spooked horses in a nearby field before the mysterious sight disappeared in the direction of Leominster .

"It gave off a fierce glow but there was no sound whatsoever. It's something I've never seen before."

But elsewhere in Herefordshire, close to Bromyard , one resident reported hearing a large bang.
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Update: Wednesday's Green Fireball in North Carolina seen from 5 States

Jennifer Saylor
ashvegas.com
Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:25 UTC
See a big, bright, green meteor over Asheville last night? A rare green fireball was spotted over our city on Wednesday night at about 10:48 p.m.

The same fireball meteor was spotted in a five-state area including North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia, with most spottings seemingly clustered around Asheville, Charlotte and Greensboro.

An account from an eyewitness:
5 sec south to north blazing white, started out small, like a shooting star, then grew bigger, angled down and turned brilliant green, then broke apart in green bits at the end (trees were blocking my view slightly at the end, this is what appeared to happen) startes out like a shooting star, then increased in brightness and size, dimmed slightly when green at the very end of my view it appeared to break off into several fragments This was A-mazing. It was very bright and terribly beautiful!
Details about the meteor here.
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Meteor Blazes Over North Carolina

Scott Gustin
Fox8
Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:23 UTC
A meteor/fireball was spotted over parts of North Carolina around 10 p.m. Wednesday night.

Several FOX8 viewers in Greensboro, Lexington and several other cities reported seeing the fireball shoot across the sky shortly before 10 p.m.

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© Stuart McDaniel

Stuart McDaniel posted a photo of the meteor/fireball on his Facebook page. The photo was taken in Lawndale, which is located in Cleveland County.

McDaniel also posted a short video of the meteor/fireball shooting across the sky.

A website that tracks meteor and fireball sightings reports several people reported the meteor/fireball on Wednesday.

The website lists reports from Lexington, Asheville, Chapel Hill, Weaverville, Boone and Charlotte.

Most people reported seeing a "bright light" or "green flash" across the sky between 9:45 and 10:15 p.m.

Several FOX8 Facebook fans also reported seeing the fireball.

"I thought I saw a very bright light shooting across the sky around 9:55 p.m. I was driving and came up on trees around the same time so wondered," Amber Goforth Blue wrote.

" I was driving through Winston-Salem on Business 40 when i saw it! Beautiful!" wrote Jenn Jones Lewis.
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Massachusetts residents describe multicoloured meteor blazing across sky and out to sea on Monday night

Sarah N. Mattero
Boston Globe
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:57 UTC
New Englanders were treated to a celestial light show Monday night when an apparent meteor blasted past them.

Multiple reports from people in Massachusetts and Maine, posted on the American Meteor Society website, described a large, bright object traveling slowly across the sky between 9 and 10 p.m., leaving a trail behind it before abruptly vanishing.

The observers described the meteor as a brightly colored object. Such meteors - also known as fireballs - can vary in color, depending on the different elements, like sodium and magnesium, vaporizing within them, said Mike Hankey, operations manager of the meteor society, in an e-mail.

"Based on the witness reports, it looks like the fireball was headed mostly west to east and probably ended somewhere over the ocean," Hankey said.

A report submitted by a Peabody resident said the fireball seemed to move very slowly, with a "white/red" tint at first that changed to a "heavy greenish color."
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Thousands witness meteor shooting across skies of Greater Manchester on its way to exploding over south Wales

Alice McKeegan
Manchester Evening News
Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:51 UTC
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A mystery 'fireball' spotted in the skies above Manchester on Monday night was a meteor, experts have said.

The bright object was seen to shoot across the atmosphere before disappearing just seconds later behind the clouds.

Hundreds of people witnessed the phenomenon at around 11.10pm on Monday night. Experts have now confirmed it was a golf ball sized meteor, which exploded above South Wales and caused a sonic boom, shaking windows and setting off car alarms.

The rare sight caused alarm on Twitter with Manchester residents tweeting their amazement at the incident.

Damien Sawyer wrote that it appeared to be a 'huge bright light streaking past the moon' and asked GMP if any other sightings had been reported.

The 26-year-old, who works as a resource analyst for the Co-operative Bank, spotted it from the bedroom window of his home in Gee Cross, Hyde.

Comment: Yes, the one in March this year was even more spectacular:

Meteor Lights up the Sky Across England

They keep trying to play this phenomenon down but it keeps getting more and more noticeable.

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Exploding Meteor Causes Sonic Boom Before Blowing up Over Wales

Adam Aspinall
Mirror News, UK
Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:42 UTC
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© Mirror News, UKFrazzled: A meteor burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.
After travelling millions of miles through the galaxy, a blazing meteor finally went out with a bang above a Welsh town.

The force of the explosion at 11pm last night rattled windows, set off car alarms and woke up children.

One resident described it as "like a bomb going off".

Amateur astronomers had watched its progress as it sped over North West England and North Wales before it blew up over Cwmbran in South Wales.

Homeowner Steve Edwards, 56, said: "There was an enormous boom - It sounded like a bomb going off.

"The force of it shook the windows in my house, woke up my children and caused car alarms to start going off in the streets.

"I'm just glad none of it landed on my roof."

Another witness, Nathan Jones, 34, said: "I've never seen something so amazing in my life.

"It had a heat trail behind, it was orange and white and very bright, and also seemed very close.

"It looked like it was skimming through the atmosphere due to the curved path it was taking."
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Multicoloured fireball with long tail witnessed in Wales, 27 August 2012


lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com
Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:18 UTC
Initial Reports

27AUG2012 latimer rainhill, united kingdom 23:17gmt

3 seconds right to left bright blue and orange brighter than moon none visible blue fireball with orange centre and long blue tail

27AUG2012 Adam Barry Town South Glamorgan Wales 23:15pm

2 n/a green no sound sun no no

27AUG2012 Andy Jones New Mills, Derbyshire, UK 23:18 GMT

3 seconds E - W Green Very Bright like a firework No Directly under the moon
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Spectacular fireball seen across southeastern Canada and northeastern US, 25 August 2012


lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com
Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:06 UTC
Initial Sighting Reports

25AUG2012 Maryann Morgan Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 20:00 - Atlantic Time Zone, UTC - 4

Longest I ever saw. By the time we saw it fly in front of us overhead, NOT high up, it then lasted upwards of 10 seconds but was going strong before we noticed it. We actually saw the fireball extinguish itself - THAT, I have never seen so clearly before. Northern - Slightly West Appeared large fireball clearly seen, with a tail and no sound associated with it. Mini Sun - we clearly saw the entire end of the fire. Parts could not be seen falling off, but the tail was evident, thick and obvious behind it. I was going for a walk with my daughter and our dog with a flashlight in hand as it was seriously getting dark. By the time it caught the attention of my peripheral vision, I was astonished that it was so close, so low in the sky and appeared to be only a few stories above where we were. We watched it for what seemed like forever, for a fireball. I've seen two other fireballs in my area over the years and the rest were 'shooting stars' but nothing like this one. In total, it probably lasted between 8 and 12 seconds, maybe even longer and we clearly seen it - the fire, it going out and the ashes that fell as a result. It was amazing to behold.

25AUG2012 Erin Durkee Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada 9:00 AST

15-20 seconds, traveling towards the North East. Perhaps towards Middle or Upper Stewiacke Was like a ball of fire, it seemed very low and disappeared down behind the trees. just very bright, like a ball of fire no no

25AUG2012 Reagan McAdam Fredericton 21:00 Atlantic Time

10 sec Right to Left (East of Fredericton to North) from Hanwell NB looking toward Fredericton. Orange and yellow (some red). No sound. More than one tail, breaking up, large. Bright as moon, yet none.

Comment: This fireball event was also witnessed across the border in Massachusetts and Maine.

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Fireball Lights up the Sky in the Park in New Brunswick, Canada!

Cindy Day
CTV News
Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:36 UTC
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© Tim Doucette/CTV News
The summer of 2012 will go down as one of the best! The days have been incredible but so have the nights. Backyard astronomers have been over the moon with the clear skies and in many cases fog free nights.

The big boys are thrilled too! This past weekend at Fundy National Park in New Brunswick, members from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada brought their telescopes out and shared the sky with over 300 people over two nights.

Friday at midnight, Tim Doucette snapped this image of an extremely bright blue meteor flying through our atmosphere. This is a 15 second exposure with the Milky Way in the background! Fabulous!

Tim has been staring at the night sky for a long time, but he says it was the second or third brightest meteor he's ever seen. Based on the direction and point of origin, he doesn't believe it was a Perseid. The next night, just after 9pm, they saw, in the western sky, what appeared to be another fireball burning up in the atmosphere and it lasted about 10 seconds.

What a weekend for the gang in the park. Viewing from the city is not usually quite as good, but it doesn't hurt to look up, you never know what you might see!
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Video: 20 August 2012: Meteor sighting in Berlin, Germany?

OmegaUfoChannel
YouTube
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:02 UTC
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Footage of a fireball, allegedly filmed from Berlin, Germany on 20th August 2012:

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