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Florida, US: Large fireball sighted in the sky


WPTV
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:25 UTC
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© Paul Skywarn December 17th Meteor
Numerous reports of a large fireball in the sky were called into 911 dispatchers and our NewsChannel 5 newsroom Thursday evening.

Viewers reported a large green and blue fireball falling from the southern sky around 4:55pm.

Initial reports were a possible plane on fire in the sky but law enforcement officials confirmed no reports of aircrafts down.
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South Carolina, US: Sunday's "boom" related to Tuesday's quake?


News 2
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:56 UTC
A number of people in the Lowcountry called News 2 to tell us about "a boom" they heard early Sunday afternoon.

Most of them live along the coast.

There is something known as the Seneca Guns.

It's the theory that there are cracks in the ocean floor and when gas escapes from those cracks, it causes a boom.

Nobody knows for sure if that's what happened.
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Meteor

Fireball '100 times brighter than a full moon' explodes over Colorado

Patricia Phillips
Space News Examiner
Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:20 UTC
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Less than a month after a fireball meteor tore through Canadian skies, astronomer Christ Peterson of Cloudbait Observatory photographed a fireball near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Fireball reported over Oregon skies


KGW.com
Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:05 UTC
Some Oregonians from Bend to Portland reported a bright fireball flash across the northern sky Thursday night.
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Meteor lights up the Thanksgiving sky


Komo News
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:54 UTC
Seattle -- They say timing is everything. Boy, were we lucky.

Our Queen Anne Tower camera just happened to be rolling on air during KOMO 4 News at 5 a.m. and captured a meteor fireball streaking across the Seattle sky.

Just as anchor Mike Dardis was welcoming viewers back form a commercial break at 5:15, there went the shooting star right on cue.
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UK: Fireball spotted over Worcester

Sally Jones
Worcester News
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:39 UTC
A "fireball" was spotted over Worcester this evening. Joseph Smith, of Beaconhill Drive, St John's, had stepped outside for a cigarette at about 5.30pm when he saw a large ball of orange.

"It was the size of the moon," he said. "I've never seen anything like it. It looked like a fireball."

Mr Smith said the unidentified object looked to be over the racecourse direction.
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Edmonton, Canada: Mysterious fireball lights up night sky


CTV Edmonton
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:37 UTC
Numerous people living in Edmonton and surrounding areas are reporting seeing a meteorite-like fireball that lit up the sky.

It not been confirmed as a meteor by official sources, but many witnesses report seeing "bright orange flames" with a large tail that shot horizontally across the sky and then disappeared.

Others said it looked like horizontal lightning, where all the clouds in one huge swath were lit up.

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Massive fireball lights up Canadian Prairie skies

Laura Drake
Edmonton Journal
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:00 UTC
It wasn't a bird, and it sure as heck wasn't a plane, but whatever was in the sky over western Canada on Thursday night was very exciting for the people who saw it.

In Edmonton and across the Prairies, hundreds of people reported seeing a bright flaming object light up the sky around 5:30 p.m. local time. It was variously described as green, yellow, purple or blue, and appeared as either an explosion or an object streaking through the sky.

Sightings came from across the Prairies; from as far south as Medicine Hat, Alta., to as far north as Beauval, Sask. - 600 kilometres from Edmonton.
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Suspected Ohio plane crash may have been meteor


Associated Press
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:13 UTC
Authorities who spent four hours searching for a plane crash in northeast Ohio now think what people saw and heard may have been a meteor.
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Indiana, US: Official says boom, shake not an earthquake

Nick Schneider
Green County Daily World
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:26 UTC
A spokesman with the U.S. Geological Society says a "boom and shake" felt in the Bloomfield area on Tuesday evening was not related to earthquake activity.

The Greene County Daily World received a call from a female caller about 6 p.m. Tuesday, who inquired if there were any reports of an earthquake in the area north Bloomfield. She said there was a boom and some shaking felt.
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