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UK: Daylight fireball reported

Asha Mehta
Peterborough Today
Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:17 UTC
Sightings of a rare daylight "fireball" - thought to be a meteor - was seen flashing over the Wisbech skies.

A meteor which has passed through Earth's atmosphere is known as a meteorite, and experts say pieces of the space rock could now be scattered across a Fenland field.

It was spotted by Jimmy Greenwood, who was driving along the A47 just outside Wisbech at about 1.15pm on Saturday. The 45-year-old, from Upwell, said: "I've never seen anything like it. It was about four houses high and burning white. It went straight across quickly, into a field and disappeared. It had a vapour trail. It was unbelievable."
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Flame-Shooting UFO (Meteor?) Spotted Near A47


Lynn News
Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:53 UTC
A motorist travelling towards Lynn was amazed when he saw a flame-spewing UFO shoot across the sky and then disappear before his eyes.

Jimmy Greenwood (45) is convinced the flying object, about the size of a football, was a meteorite, but is appealing to Lynn News readers to help him find out for sure.

Mr Greenwood was driving along the A47, just outside of Wisbech, at around 12:45pm on Saturday when he saw a bright white light travel across the sky with flames coming out behind it.

He said: "I was on my way to see my daughter. It was snowing and I was driving around 35 to 40mph. I saw this really bright light over the fields to my right for about two to three seconds and then it just burned away. It looked like a firework rocket and was moving really quickly.
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China: Fireball in Beijing

Cui Xiaohuo
China Daily
Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:43 UTC
Beijing fireball
The search continues for a full moon-bright meteoroid likely to have landed in west suburban Beijing on Wednesday in what astronomers said could lead to one of the biggest discoveries in Beijing this year.

Witnesses in Beijing and nearby Tianjin recorded a clearly visible fireball-like meteorite descending near the west horizon of Beijing at 10:23 pm on Dec 16.

The surveillance camera from the planetarium taped a 2-second footage of the fall phenomena, in which a bright shooting star, carrying a visible tail, flew towards the east and exploded into greater brightness before disappearing on the horizon.

"We were at Jianxiangqiao Bridge when driving west-bound on the North Fourth Ring Road when we caught sight of the brightness moving to the southeast," Li Xin, a researcher with the Beijing Planetarium, wrote on the organization's online forum before posting the surveillance video right after the witness.

"The brightness of the meteor was close to a full moon," he wrote. "If this meteorite can be recovered, it can become one of the biggest discoveries in Beijing."
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England: Huge 'fireball' seen hovering, then moving, then hovering...


UK UFO Sightings
Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:45 UTC
England ufo
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Posted: December 20, 2009

Location of Sighting: Rudheath, Cheshire
Date of Sighting: 16th December 2009
Time: 6:15

I was driving through Rudheath, Cheshire on Wednesday 16th December at approx 6.15 and was in traffic when I saw what I can only describe as a huge fireball. At first I thought it was an aeroplane on fire. It was hovering in the sky to my right very low, about the height of 2 or 3 houses then it moved right in front of me. It hovered there for perhaps 30 seconds then shot off southbound traveling higher and higher until it went totally out of sight.
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Fireball: Curious Events In Nebraska: Dec. 16, 2009


SpaceWeather
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:51 UTC
Earthquakes don't rock Nebraska very often. In fact, seismically speaking, it is one of the quietest places in North America. Nevertheless, on Dec. 16th at 8:54 pm CST, USGS seismographs detected a magnitude 3.5 temblor centered near Auburn, Nebraska:

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"It sounded like those loud grain haulers that drive by, but about five times louder," reports Laurie Riley, who lives near the epicenter. "The whole house shook. My kids came running down stairs - they were scared. It even moved my car, [which was parked outside on icy ground]."

And then the really curious thing happened.
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US: Mysterious booms questioned

Foss Farrar
The Arkansas city Traveler
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:30 UTC
Stop. Hey, what's that sound?

Several Arkansas City area residents reported hearing explosion-type sounds or sonic booms recently. But authorities can't seem to pinpoint the source of the sounds.

Elmer Morris, a World War II veteran, today said he heard the booms two or three times on Monday and several more times Tuesday. The booms were heard during daylight hours, he said.

Morris said the sounds are very similar to sonic booms he heard while in the military and on the West Coast.
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US: Sonic boom-like noise heard by many last night


WGMD 92.7 News Radio
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:50 UTC
A sonic boom like sound heard by many late last night is something that has happened before, according to State Police. They tell us that is what it probably is. They tell us there was nothing reported to them last night as far as an explosion or anything suspicious. Delaware's Dover Air Force Base has no information regarding any aircraft from their base that the noise may have been related to.
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Earthquake follows Nebraska fireball


Spaceweather.com
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:02 UTC
"At 9 p.m. Central Time on Dec. 16th, a very bright meteor lit up the completely overcast sky like lightning in southeast Nebraska," reports Trooper Jerry Chab of the Nebraska State Patrol. "It flashed for approximately 2 seconds and was followed by ground shaking, which prompted many calls by the public to law enforcement in a three county wide area." The USGS says there was a magnitude 3.5 earthquake near Auburn, Nebraska, at 8:53 pm Wednesday night, about the same time and place as the fireball. Coincidence? Readers in Nebraska with photos or eyewitness accounts are encouraged to submit a report.
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Alleged Meteorite Fall Causes Alarm in Santiago, Chile


Terra
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:20 UTC
Meteor in Santiago, Chile
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A long white trail that appeared to be the fall of a meteorite was seen in the morning over the mountains.

However, after several inquiries the meteorite hypothesis was dismissed against the hipothesis of a meteorological effect.

According to sources of the Bureau of Aeronautics, it was an aircraft that was headed for Argentina and that, by the effects of temperature difference and contact of the turbine with the cooler air, generated a bright trail that remained in the sky.

Esteban Hermosilla captured this phenomenon in the morning when droving to work from Lo Barnechea to Huechuraba.

"I was going down the Costanera highway and you could clearly see the marked trail, so I took a picture with my cellphone. I didn't know what it was, I was astonished, I thought it was a plane but it was very strange"said Esteban Hermosilla.
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Canada: Apparent Meteor Zips Through Sky

Danny Grummett
News Talk 650 CKOM
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:46 UTC
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A trail of gold. That's what a Langham women said an apparent meteor left behind when it zipped across the Saskatchewan night sky. Laurie Suiker says she was driving home just before 6:00 Friday evening on Highway 16, near Lutheran Road, when she saw a flash of light. She initially thought it was a shooting star.

"I watched it trail for a tiny bit and then it went, poof !" said Suiker. "And there was this beautiful golden shower. It wasn't huge. It was way up there, but it was pretty beautiful."

Suiker described the flash for her husband, Chris, and compared it to the meteor sighting in November of 2008 near the Alberta/Saskatchewan border (Flash pictured right).

Comment: A comment posted by a reader to the original article stated:
Saw something appearing...

On December 13th, 2009 LeRyck (not verified) says:

I am from Quebec city. Saturday evening, at 17:50 local time, I saw a quite big green ball streaking through the sky from East to West or possible from ENE to WSW. It was followed by a reddish tail. The whole experience did not last more than about 2 seconds. I saw it through a window. I roughly estimated its speed to 20,000 km/s.
Does anybody else have seen that?


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