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The video, obtained by The Lakewood Scoop, shows the small fireball in Lakewood around 7:16 p.m., according to the timestamp on the dashcam footage.
CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Check out this shooting star/meteor captured on a Lakewood resident's dashcam moments ago. @NWS_MountHolly @NASA pic.twitter.com/ms01y3Mipr
— The Lakewood Scoop (@LakewoodScoop) November 9, 2020
Clint Starnes, a resident in Lakeland, says his doorbell cam caught the fireball zoom across the night sky. If you look closely at the video above you can see it fly by.
The American Meteor Society asks anyone who believes they may have seen a fireball to remember as many details as possible and report it.
Last night's fireball: it was in NW Tennessee at 6:28p CST. It started out 56 miles above Paris, TN and burned up about 40 miles above Dyersburg - speed was 60,400 mph. The speed/location of the radiant are an excellent match to what we expect from the Taurid meteor shower.
Footage filmed on Friday night shows the bright flash of light moving at a relatively slow speed above a residential area on Friday night in north-eastern China's Heilongjiang Province
Footage shows the bright light moving at a relatively slow speed above a residential area on Friday night in north-eastern China's Heilongjiang Province.
The unusual scene, amassing over 1.7million views on Chinese Twitter-like Weibo, has been likened by curious social media users to an illuminating UFO.
Fireball video: Fireball booms across US on Halloween - 'Brightest shooting star of my life'
The spooky season kicked off with a bang on Halloween when residents across nine states witnessed a huge fireball. The meteor was so big and bright that it could be seen in the north of Michigan, all the way down to Georgia, more than 900 kilometres away.
Witnesses described the booming fireball as having a plethora of colours, mainly blue, white and green, coming from the main body as it hit Earth's atmosphere.
Almost 200 people flocked to the International Meteor Organisation (IMO) to report their sightings.
© YouTube/American Meteor Society (screen capture)
© DFN, Curtin University
The fireball was captured by the Desert Fireball Network's Katanning camera system.
The fireball was captured by the Desert Fireball Network's Katanning camera system.
Dr Hadrien Devillepoix said the fireball — reported at 8:09pm local time, east of the Perth metropolitan area — would have been visible up to 500 kilometres from Perth in Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, and Albany.
The exact location cannot be determined because remnant cloud hindered DFN's cameras from being able to triangulate the asteroid.
"Not many people actually saw the fireball directly," Dr Devillepoix said.
"We got it on one camera — all the way down in Katanning in the Wheatbelt."
On October 28, residents of Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois were treated to a "spectacular" fireball as the Sun was rising. So powerful was the fireball that people were able to see it, despite daylight beginning to take place.
Tens of people reported the phenomenon to the International Meteor Organisation (IMO), describing their experience of the small space rock hitting Earth's atmosphere.
Many described the trail of the fireball taking on a blue colour, likely because of certain gasses packed into the atmosphere.
Jean said: "Saw it just after sunrise as the sky was brightening up. It was very bright and spectacular."
The 4:06 #fireball as seen by Norman Lockyer Observatory today - thanks to @nlospam for the video. Tomorrow #FRIPON runs the numbers to see whether a #meteorite landed. @UKMeteorNetwork #spacerocks pic.twitter.com/VtVLDSgmXv
— SCAMP (@SCAMP_Meteors) October 25, 2020
The meteor fireball was recorded by the geostationary satellite GOES-16 and by a live weather camera.
A resident of Redemption recorded the trail of smoke left in the sky by the meteor.
Comment: Also check out SOTT's monthly documentary SOTT Earth Changes Summary - September 2020: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs