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Mystery boom creates scare in Bangalore, Karnataka, India


Bangalore Mirror
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 04:00 UTC
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)
© Wikimedia CommonsIndian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)
On Thursday afternoon at around 3.30pm, residents around the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) on Bannerghatta road, at Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Uttarahalli and other parts in South Bengaluru heard a loud noise which created panic. Residents said their window panes shook and they heard a 'blast'. The State disaster management officials have announced that the residents should not panic as there was no earthquake.

"We heard a loud noise that lasted for a few seconds. We could see the window pane shaking. We were afraid that it was a tremor," said Kiran K, a resident of JP Nagar. "The loud noise was heard till HSR and Bellandur and this seems like a mystery," said a Bellandur resident.

However, Karnataka State Natural Disaster Management Center (KSNMDC) confirmed to BM that there have been no records of tremors. Dr C N Prabhu, a KSNMDC official said, "It was reported that people in and around RR Nagar heard a loud noise, possibly due to an earthquake, on Thursday. But the EQ observatory in Tippagondanahalli did not record any tremor."
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Reports of a huge meteor fireball spotted over Deeside, Wales


deeside.com
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 19:10 UTC
Fireball over Wales
© Mark McIntyreFireball recorded over Tackley, Oxfordshire

Several people have reported seeing of a very large and bright meteor over Deeside, Wrexham and the Wider North Wales region just before 9pm on Tuesday night.

Ryan got in touch with Deeside.com to say: "I have just seen a huge comet hurtling towards earth!! I live in Shotton but it really scared me. Must have broken up but i have never seen anything like it."

Nicola who lives Hawarden said: "Just seen(about 9pm-ish) a kind of large white fireball with a tail behind it shoot down the sky!! I thought it was Armageddon!!!"

Wrexham Lager Club (@lagerwxm) Tweeted: "It was big over north Wales and shot across the sky."
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Colorful 'fireball' in night sky seen by people in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, elsewhere on East Coast

Kiera Blessing
The Eagle-Tribune
Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:56 UTC
Fireball - stock image
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People across the East Coast reported seeing a "fireball" in the night sky just about midnight, according to the American Meteor Society.

The society has not confirmed if a fireball did fly overhead, but 88 reports were logged, 16 of which came from people in Massachusetts. Reports came from as far south as Florida and as far north as New Hampshire, with reported sightings in nine additional states in between, the society said.

A fireball is another term for a very bright meteor, according to the society. Several thousand fireballs occur in the planet's atmosphere every day, but most are over oceans or uninhabited regions, or are masked by daylight, experts say.

"Additionally, the brighter the fireball, the more rare is the event," the society website reads.
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Loud boom heard, felt across Twin Lakes Area of Arkansas

Josh Dooley
Baxter Bullitin
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:12 UTC
Meteor exploding over Chelyabinsk, Russia,
© Yekaterina Pustynnikova/APThis famous image of a meteor exploding over Chelyabinsk, Russia, was taken in 2013. Did a smaller one just explode high over the Ozarks?
A loud explosion was heard shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Monday. Residents across the Twin Lakes Area reported hearing the noise.

Local law enforcement officials have reported receiving numerous calls about the noise. One local law enforcement official said people in Fulton County reported hearing the noise as well.

Social media sites had people reporting they heard the noise in places such as Melbourne, Calico Rock, Norfork, Mountain Home, Marion County and rural Baxter County.
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'Sonic boom', falling meteor startles Canterbury, New Zealand residents


NewstalkZB
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:35 UTC
Canterbury fireball
© Amanda CosterA suspected meteor shoots across the North Canterbury sky.
North Cantabrians were treated to an atmospheric spectacle last night when a suspected meteor burned across the evening sky.

People have taken to social media to describe what they saw, with some saying there was a loud "boom", and others thinking it was an earthquake.

In Sefton the Coster family heard a "massive kind of rumble", or "sonic boom", just after 6pm on Monday, Stuff reported.

Amanda Coster said when the family looked out the window they saw an object "burning up and coming down" in the sky, heading towards Mt Gray.

Coster thought it was a meteor, with an "orange glow to it" and leaving a long trail, Stuff reported.
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Meteor fireball lights up the night sky over Perth, Western Australia

Kelsey Wilkie
Daily Mail
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:10 UTC
Dash cam footage shared on Twitter shows the bright blue light descending through the night skies in Perth
Dash cam footage shared on Twitter shows the bright blue light descending through the night skies in Perth
A mysterious flash of light which lit up Western Australia's dark skies has sparked a fiery debate online about the cause of the illuminating object.

Hundreds of people took to social media to share footage of the flash, which was seen from Mindarie in Perth's north to Meckering in the city's east.

Some witnesses claimed the flash of light was likely a meteorite, although others believed the blue burst looked more like falling debris.

The Perth Observatory had multiple reports of a meteor.

Ralph Gonzalvo was driving on Marangaroo Road headed east when he saw 'a big flash, kind of like lightning.'


Comment: Let's watch that again in slow-motion replay...



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Meteor fireball seen over St. Louis, Missouri area Monday night

Stephanie Baumer
kmov.com
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:16 UTC
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Residents in Missouri and Illinois reported seeing a fireball streak across the sky Monday night.

According to the American Meteor Society, the fireball was seen over Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Illinois Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska and Indiana. The organization said they have received over 200 reports, including ones from Caseyville, Granite City, St. Louis, Wright City and Warrenton.

"Amazing to witness, it seemed to slowly cross the low horizon and even stutter a bit in its trajectory as it went beyond the horizon," Sally V. of Defiance, Missouri wrote on the American Meteor Society website regarding her observation.

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Russian astronomer captures multiple rare atmospheric phenomena on video in 1 night - Sprites, elves, airglow and meteors


Strange Sounds
Sat, 25 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
Russian astronomer captures ALL 'rare' atmospheric phenomena in 1 night - Sprites, elves, airglow, meteors, aurora
Mysterious violet ring appears in the sky over Russia.

Elves are electromagnetic pulses generated by lightning strikes. Elves is an acronym for Emission of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations Due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources. They look like doughnut-shaped flashes that spread laterally up to 186 miles. Atmospheric research indicates the brightness of elves is closely related to the peak current in a return lightning stroke (the movement of charges from the ground to the cloud), and that elves may be the most dominant type of TLEs in the atmosphere.

Elves are very rare and undetermined atmospheric phenomena.

Comment: It wasn't so long ago that atmospheric phenomena such as these were considered a rare occurrence and so to capture just one of these events would have been considered lucky. However, as is the case with the rapid shifts we're seeing on earth below - a serious uptick in powerful earthquakes, epic flooding, gaping fissures, sinkholes, and so on - the same dramatic shifts are being reflected in the skies above:

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Meteor explosion in Michigan helps scientists detect future threats

Connor Ertz
earth.com
Tue, 21 Aug 2018 19:03 UTC
Michigan meteor explosion
© earth.com
On January 17th of this year, bright flashes lit up the night sky above Detroit, Michigan. The flashes were the result of a meteor explosion as it disintegrated in the atmosphere. These extremely bright meteors are called bolides, and roughly 2,000 of them pass through the Earth's atmosphere each year, exploding with the force of between 0.8 and 8.1 tons of TNT. Despite the fact that thousands of these bolides are seen from Earth annually, the Michigan bolide was an especially interesting event for scientists to study.

This meteor explosion was captured by infrasonic microphones and seismometers, which gave researchers the rare opportunity to compare the data with satellite and ground camera images. A team of scientists led by Michael Hedlin of Scripps Institution of Oceanography has published a report in Seismological Research Letters in which they use this data to pinpoint the time, location, and height of the bolide disintegration, as well as calculate an approximate yield for the explosion.
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Arizona man finds meteorite in front yard after monsoon storm

Sonu Wasu
ABC15
Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:33 UTC
Meteorite found in Glendale, AZ
Not too many people saw the flash of light streak across the night sky in the Valley on July 26, but it turns out the meteorite that fell landed right in a Valley man's yard.

According to the American Meteorite Society, only 12 people reported seeing it and one person heard a sonic boom. It came on a rainy, cloudy night with thunder and lighting, but what this one left behind has made history in Arizona.

Arizona University State Professor Laurence Garvie called it the fifth meteorite fall in Arizona and the first one in the valley.

Garvie explained that a fall occurs when witnesses see meteorites fall from the sky and the stones are then tracked to the ground. While meteorite "finds" are much more common, no one knows when the meteorites fell, they are just there.
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