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Fireball lights up Nova Scotia skies

Katy Parsons
CBC News, Canada
Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:42 UTC
Fireball Over Nova Scotia
© Fred Thornhill/ReutersA bright light over Nova Scotia Thursday night was likely a meteor.
A meteor was likely behind numerous reports of a bright light in the skies over Nova Scotia Thursday night.

Numerous people reported on social media seeing it just before 10 p.m.

It was probably a very bright meteor hundreds of kilometres away, said Dave Lane, director of the Saint Mary's University observatory.

"I've only seen one of these things in my lifetime that was bright enough to be spectacular," Lane said, adding he didn't witness the meteor last night.
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Bright meteor fireball observed over southern Spain

Meteors Channel
YouTube
Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:03 UTC
meteor fireball over spain
© SMART Project (screen capture)
Fireball recorded over Spain just one minute after the start of summer (June 20, at 22:35 UT).

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Meteor fireball filmed over the state of São Paulo, Brazil


Strange Sounds
Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:05 UTC
Brazil
This earthgrazer meteor was filmed by cameras of the Brazilian Meteor Observation Network (Bramon) over the state of São Paulo, Brazil on June 14, 2016.

They managed to catch the beginning (VLW station), middle (CSP station) and the end of the flight (HAL station) and thus to calculate the trajectory of the space rock.


Comment: See also this report of another fireball two days earlier from the same region: Bright meteor fireball streaks over Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Meteor fireball spotted in skies over Massena, New York


7 News WWNY
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 06:17 UTC
Massena fireball
© 7 News WWNY
A 7 News viewer caught what might have been a meteor falling from the sky over Massena.

The pictures were taken by Sara Lytle after 4 p.m. near the St. Lawrence Centre Mall.

Her fiance, Justin Smith, says she spotted the fast-moving object by BJ's Wholesale Club and followed it all the way to Alcoa Park.

Comment: Just two days before, a fiery meteor fireball blazed across SE Canada and NE United States

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Fiery meteor fireball blazed across SE Canada and NE United States

Laurène Jardin
CBC News Montreal
Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:19 UTC
Montreal Fireball
© Neil Zeller PhotographyMeteors like this one, captured last year by photographer Neil Zeller, can be seen about every 15 minutes on any given night.
I was outside, enjoying a nice dinner and drink on a Montreal rooftop Tuesday evening when I saw it - a large fiery ball that blazed across the night sky. Then, as fast as it had appeared it was gone.

The entire incident, which occurred at around 9:30 p.m. ET, lasted all of five seconds, but the fear and paranoia set in for the rest of the night.

The end is near.

Social media

I took to the web to understand what had just happened. I was not prepared to rule out the possibility of alien invasion quite yet and neither were some in the Twitterverse.

Several people turned to Twitter to ask what the ball was.


Comment: The American Meteor Society (AMS) received over 150 reports (event 2083-2016) about a fireball seen over SE Canada and NE United States on Wednesday, June 15th 2016 around 01:29 UT.

meteor fireball AMS event 2083-2016
© American Meteor Society (screen capture)


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Bright meteor fireball seen in Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania


Lunar Meteorite Blogspot
Sat, 11 Jun 2016 14:54 UTC
Fireball - stock image
Stock image
This was likely seen in several other nearby states. updates.

Please help get the word about this event so that we might recover security camera video or cell phone captures.

If you have a video or still image please send to me @ drtanuki@gmail.com ; Thank you!

Sighting Reports

10JUN2016 Brian Leland, NC 22:02, EDT,pm 2-3 seconds North east not sure of direction I was facing blue, green Venus no, left trail behind it the color caught my attn and the angle which it fell from the sky

10JUN2016 Steve Williams wrote-"Myself and several friends were attending an outdoor party when we all noticed a bright fireball speeding through that sky. It appeared to be a meteor or fireball. I've never seen anything like it before. It was flying over Glen Allen, VA 23059 at approximately 9:30 pm EST."

10JUN2016 Michael Pearson Charlotte CH, VA 2200 EDT 8 sec Looking east, falling diagonal right to left. Bright blue flashes Bright enough to light up the sky. Very bright Unknown Very amazing. Most spectacular meteorite I've ever seen. Awesome enough for me to look up meteorite sightings.

Comment: To learn more about our increasing fireball activity, including its cause, effects, and role in human history, read Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.

See also:

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Impact over Northern Ireland: Hoax or government cover-up?

Jacco van der Worp
yowusa.com
Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:57 UTC
Kinawley, Northern Ireland
© Unknown
On February 13th, 2001, a strange airplane crash was observed in the Southwest corner of Northern Ireland, less than a mile away from the border with the Republic of Ireland. There was no airplane, but despite credible witnesses of what may have been an impact event, the story was quickly squashed as a genuine mistake, and then as a hoax. The manner in which this story was squashed with slashing diminutives begs the question: If this is indeed a cover-up, then why?
BBC News, February 13, 2001
Aircraft crashes on mountain

Police in Northern Ireland are investigating reports that a light aircraft has crashed in County Fermanagh.

It is understood that a plane came down at Benaughlin Mountain near Kinawley shortly after 1800 GMT.

It is believed helicopters are being used in the rescue effort.
One day later the same site had the following report:
Tuesday, 13 February, 2001, 20:56 GMT, BBC News
Mystery surrounds 'plane crash' reports

Mystery surrounds the source of flames and smoke in the sky over County Fermanagh which has sparked a major search operation.

farm house
© Unknown
About 12 people described seeing flames and smoke on the side of the Benaughlin Mountain, near Kinawley, on Tuesday night.

Paul McCaffrey, who raised the alarm with a friend, is convinced he saw something in the sky with smoke billowing from it.

"I saw a dot at the front and a black trail of smoke leading down at an angle towards the mountain," he said.

A British Army helicopter using heat sensitive equipment also flew over the area.

But following more than three hours of extensive searches, nothing was found.

Comment: The author seemed to be having something of a prophetic moment. In the fifteen years that have passed since this article was written, the number of fireballs and meteorites has continuously increased at an exponential rate. It's only a matter of time before one does a serious amount of damage that can't be covered up or explained away.

We wait and watch.

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Bright meteor fireball streaks over Sao Paulo, Brazil

Exoss Citizen Science
YouTube
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 06:01 UTC
Meteor fireball over Sao Paulo, Brazil
© YouTube/Exoss Citizen Science (screen capture)
A fireball visual reported over Sao Paulo on fireballs.imo.net, filmed by Exoss Citizen Science, brazilian meteor monitoring.

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France expands 'FRIPON' meteor all-sky camera network

Traci Watson
Nature
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:15 UTC
meteor france
Still from video footage of a meteor fireball that exploded over the French Alps in February this year
Tracking space rocks that reach Earth will give insight into the early Solar System

Scientists in France have launched an unprecedented campaign to catch shooting stars, an effort that will rely on thousands of volunteers to comb the ground for bits of space rock.

The programme already includes 68 cameras that scan the skies for meteors, which are seen when bits of asteroid, comet or other planetary material streak through Earth's atmosphere. By the end of this year, some 100 cameras will blanket France, organizers say. That would make it one of the biggest and densest meteor-spotting networks in the world.

"If tomorrow a meteorite falls in France, we will be able to know where it comes from and roughly where it has landed," says Jérémie Vaubaillon, an astronomer at the Paris Observatory and one of organizers of the system. Dubbed the Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network, or FRIPON, it was officially inaugurated on 28 May.

Comment: Note how oblivious they are to the possibility that rates of meteorite discoveries rise and fall with rates of meteor debris hitting the atmosphere.

Note also that they're focused on finding actual meteorites, not on using the all-sky network for watching the skies and tracking the increase in meteor fireballs.

But have they even noticed that??

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Meteor fireball captured on dash cam over Sydney, Australia

ClearskiesTV
YouTube
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 06:19 UTC
meteor over Sydney
© YouTube/CLEARSKIESTV (screen capture)
Whilst driving through heavy traffic towards Sylvania on my way to the Vivid Light Festival, I spotted this meteor fireball blazing across the skies of Sydney.

The time was 5:22pm on Friday 10th June 2016.

Captured on dash cam, this meteor must have been fairly large to be this easily visible while there was still plenty of light in the sky from the setting sun and the light pollution from a busy area of Sydney.

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