Did anyone else see the crazy falling star on Wednesday night?
I was driving into Le Mars from the north, and when I was about a mile out of town, I saw a giant blue-green falling star with some white flecks, which looked like it was headed straight for my little house.
Fireball sighting: Observers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island are reporting a "huge, pulsating blue-green fireball" sighted within minutes of 8:48 pm EST on Jan. 23rd. It was bright enough to be seen through heavy cloud cover, according to one witness.
Source: Robert Woolard, USA
Masspike fireball: Last night a meteoroid of unknown size hit Earth's atmosphere over New England. Its bright, blue-green disintegration startled motorists driving along the Massachusetts Turnpike and surrounding areas: eye-witness accounts.
Tamas Virag Edmonton Sun Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:29 UTC
Experts say a meteor that lit up the sky over Alberta likely burned up before reaching the ground.
The bright flash of light was spotted all over northeastern Alberta around 8 p.m. Tuesday.
"I was just out for an evening walk ... and I saw it going across the sky and it was dropping," said Lana Goguen of Bonnyville. "It was still quite a distance away south of Bonnyville. As it was streaking through it was kind of an orangy-reddish colour and it had a small trail, but it wasn't the long, streaking trail."
The loud booms heard in Grand Island Tuesday night and this morning are believed to be starling control measures or the acts of curious youth. Milt Moravek, program manager of the Central Platte Natural Resources District, said the NRD began shooting off propane cannons last Friday night for starling control.
"It just scares them away from our area," Moravek said.
The NRD has used the sound abatement method in the past to prevent the flock from roosting at the NRD headquarters office at 215 Kaufman Ave. It informed the city last week that the cannons would be shot off around dusk for about seven to 14 days.
Date: January 20, 2009
Time: Approx: 7:15 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Highway 17 north just east of Sault Saint Marie.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round.
Full Description of event/sighting: We were driving home and we saw a bright green fireball the size of a beach ball in the sky going from west to east at a high rate of speed.
I scanned your newsletter eagerly this morning looking for any other report of the comet/asteroid/meteor that was witnessed by my friend Sunday evening at sunset (I had my back turned). We were at Chase Palm Park packing up after a day of the arts and crafts show when my friend said she saw what she thought was a bottle rocket or home-made firework in the eastern sky.
A spectacular meteor spotted over Scandinavia on Saturday is likely to have landed in the Baltic Sea, south of Denmark
The meteor that streaked across the sky on Saturday night is likely to have crashed into the waters off the coast of Denmark, according to a leading astronomer.
Michael Linden-Vørnle, of the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen, said all evidence points to a landing site somewhere in the Baltic Sea south of the islands of Lolland and Falster.
The spectacular phenomenon lit up the skies of southern Sweden and eastern Denmark at 8:15pm on Saturday night for approximately eight seconds and prompted dozens of calls to police and emergency services from worried residents.
You can view original article in Danish, here. Translation in English by a SOTT Reader.
Comment: Readers from Germany and the Netherlands at this link have also reported seeing the meteorite, which suggests that this was a fairly large "space rock". Keep watching the skies, 2009 may well turn out to be a "smashing" year...
Peter Vinthagen Simpson The Local Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:19 UTC
A mystical light phenomenon was observed over southern and western Sweden on Saturday evening. Experts believe that a bolid - a burning meteorite - could provide the explanation.
SOS Alarm and the Gothenburg air-rescue service were bombarded with telephone calls from mystified observers across southern and western Sweden shortly after 8pm on Saturday evening.
Witnesses reported seeing a huge flash of light stream across the night sky.
"There are a great many people who have seen it. We have received phone calls from Trelleborg to Lidköping," said Annika Vestergård at the air-rescue service to news agency TT.
Shreveport, Louisiana gets a fair number of visitors. And with recent movie activity, some might even be called stars; however, a guest from the heavens might literally have dropped in.
About 6 p.m. Thursday, people near Cross Lake saw a bright flash and heard an explosion that rattled windows and brought them out of their houses and onto their yards to look over the water. Speculation over what it could have been included a bomb and a methamphetamine laboratory hidden in the woods.
It took a while for people to arrive at the logical conclusion: It probably was a meteor.
Comment: Readers from Germany and the Netherlands at this link have also reported seeing the meteorite, which suggests that this was a fairly large "space rock". Keep watching the skies, 2009 may well turn out to be a "smashing" year...