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US: Orange fireball objects over North Suburbs Chicao, Illinois

Brian Vike
The Vike Factor (Into the Paranormal)
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:18 UTC
Posted: July 13, 2010

Date: July 13, 2010
Time: 10:00 p.m.

Orange fireball thingy, it as moving at a medium pace from south to north and eventually slowing, lowering, then disappearing. I watched it with my friend after coming out of a restaurant for a good 3 minutes. We have no clue as to what it was. I thought it was a meteor at first, but obviously lasted too long and didn't travel in a completely straight direction.

I looked on the internet to see if anyone else reported anything and it is weird to find a similar sighting in the same place around the same time just a few days before.
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Mysterious fireball reported near Shawnee, Oklahoma

MysteriousOklahoma
YouTube
Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:18 UTC
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Washington, US: 'Fireball' Reported Over Vancouver Skies

Bob Albrecht
The Columbian
Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:00 UTC
Brenda Ellis was getting ready for bed Thursday night when her brother called her outside and pointed to the sky. Before she could respond, Ellis said her daughter, Ashley Ellis, let out a shrill scream.

Darting back and forth in the night sky were what Ellis described as four unidentified flying objects. Yes, UFOs.

To be specific, they were four orange bulbs that dashed overhead until they ascended higher and higher, turned to white and disappeared, according to Ellis.

"They were super quiet, and so bright and so close," said Ellis, who was in the backyard of her Cascade Park home when she saw them taking off into the southern sky.

The National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle confirmed Ellis' report and noted there two other accounts Thursday, one each in Vancouver and Seattle.

"What the objects were? I have no idea," said Peter Davenport, the director of the UFO center. "My suspicion is we'll never know."

The local reports, though, come on the heels of nearly 100 reports Davenport said the center has received since July 1, all detailing similar sightings. Reports, he said, have stretched from coast to coast, California to Connecticut.
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US: Meteorite Punches Hole in Driveway

Brandon Evans
WCMessenger.com
Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:39 UTC
A smoldering chunk of rock from outer space punctured the driveway of a home in Decatur on Sunday.

"We know how to celebrate the Fourth of July the right way," said Margie Small. "We don't have fireworks. We have meteorites."

Small discovered the meteorite early Sunday afternoon at their home on Crestridge Court.
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Meteor Dazzles Viewers Across Washington Region

Martin Weil
Washington Post
Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:25 UTC
A bright fireball flashed across the skies of the Washington region last week, visible to people in the grandstand at a baseball game, as well as to motorists, pedestrians and people standing on suburban decks.

The American Meteor Society logged more than 30 reports of the Thursday night event, from the Washington metropolitan area to Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia. Almost all placed the time at about 9:55 p.m.

"It was a very bright object," said Chris Wood, who saw it from the deck of a house in Potomac. "It was so bright that the trees cast shadows" in its light, he said.

"It just kept going until it was past the horizon," he added.

"It was the brightest I've ever seen at night," he said.

Wood said the meteor appeared green, but some of the other reports on the society's Web site described it as blue or yellow. A report from Stamford, Conn., said it had a green head and a yellow trail.
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Pennsylvania, US: Another Fireball Caught on York Water Company Video Camera

Teresa Ann Boeckel
York Daily Record
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:51 UTC
A fireball that crossed the sky Thursday night was caught on The York Water Company's surveillance camera.

It was the same camera at the company's pumping station in Spring Garden Township that captured a meteor in the sky last year, said Jeffrey Hines, president and CEO of the water company.

However, the latest fireball appeared to be at a slightly different angle, he said. It showed up in the footage around 9:53 p.m.

Brian Kirby, a York City Police officer, spotted the meteor while on duty Thursday evening.

"It was pretty bright. You couldn't really miss it," he said. "It had a pretty long tail. . . . Definitely not your average shooting star."
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Meteor During Thursday's Orioles Game?

Frank Roylance
The Baltimore Sun
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:53 UTC
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© Pierre Martin, Ontario2006 Perseid fireball.
Just received this note from a member of the Howard Astronomical League:
Frank,

"Not sure if you have heard yet or not, but at tonight's (June 24) Orioles game around 9:45PM there was an extremely bright meteor (bolide) in the sky that went over the city. I was sitting on the first base side and the meteor flew overtop the Hilton Hotel (left field of the stadium). It was heading roughly westward and for being over the city was very very bright! Unfortunately it was between innings and I had put my camera down.

"I would hope though that with all the photo and TV cameras that someone must have gotten a picture or video.

"Just wanted to let you know in case you were interested. - James Willinghan"
Sure, I'm interested. Did anyone at the stadium (or anywhere else in the region) spot this object? If so, leave a comment here. Better yet, if you managed to get a photo or video, let me know and we'll post it and replace the one above.

Remember, it's very important to include detailed information describing the object, where you were, which direction you were facing, which direction the object was travelling, how high above the horizon it was and how long it was visible.
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Colorado Bright Fireball 23JUN2010

LunarMeteoriteHunter
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:43 UTC
I recorded a very bright fireball (mag -13) over Colorado on June 23 at UT 08:49. The radiant of this event was within my measurement error of the radiant of the June Lyrid shower, which is suggested by the IMO as a "possible source", and seems to have been more active in the 1960s. I obtained an initial velocity of 47 km/s, which is high compared with the IMO estimate of 31 km/s (I don't know how that speed was obtained).

In any case, this is an interesting fireball that fragmented explosively at a height of 53 km. I have posted a report at [Link, see below]; be sure to check the nice videos from two of my allsky cameras. Tom Ashcraft also caught this on his allsky camera in New Mexico, over 400 km to the south.

Be sure to view the videos- the terminal explosion is very impressive.

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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US: Some here report seeing fireball in sky

P.J. Reilly
LancasterOnline.com
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:26 UTC
A bright light in the sky over Lancaster County attracted the attention of at least a few people Thursday night.

What caused the light was uncertain as of press time.

Three people called the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era shortly after 10 p.m. to report seeing the light.

About the same time, several people from Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and Connecticut posted on Twitter that they saw an object, which they described as a "fireball" or "meteor."

"Huge, huge, huge meteor just fell over White Hall, Md.," one person wrote. "Exploded in huge flash. Green tail. Yellow fireball head."

Amanda Kimmich was folding laundry on the second floor of her house on Pitney Road in Lancaster Township when she happened to look out the window and saw a bright, white flash of light in the sky.

"It was really unique," she said. "I've seen fireworks, and this seemed bigger than that. It kind of gave me goose bumps."
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Brazil Meteor Fireball Produces Meteorites

LunarMeteoriteHunter
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:06 UTC
A ~600 gram meteorite fell about 15 meters from a ranch hand in Varre-Sai, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil on June 19, 2010. The images show the meteorite and how it was found (though it was picked up first, and then replaced for the TV camera). The person talking to the reporter is Prof. Marcelo Souza, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, in Campos. The interview will be aired on Brazilian TV today.

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© Wellington Rangel (Clube de Astronomia Louis Cruls/ Instituto Federal Fluminense)/ Astronomers Without Borders
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© Wellington Rangel (Clube de Astronomia Louis Cruls/ Instituto Federal Fluminense)/ Astronomers Without Borders
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