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One video was uploaded to the AMS website. Credit: Maggie.
Fireballs
One video was uploaded to the AMS website. Credit: Maggie.
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In the video, a fireball is seen falling from the sky. It flares brightly before disappearing behind a small mountain ridge, according to the KREM viewer who sent in the video.
The video was captured at his mother's Upper Pack River Valley home about 15 miles north of Sandpoint.
There are three other reports of people witnessing a fireball in Idaho that night according to the American Meteor Society. However verification of those reports is still pending.
This clip, posted by Michael Brooks on Twitter, shows the fireball as viewed from Lake Guntersville.
The meteor moved at 29,000 miles per hour according to Dr Bill Cooke, Meteoroid Environment Program Manager at NASA, as reported by local meteorologist Jason Simpson.
Credit: Michael Brooks via Storyful
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This shot of the meteor was taken from a plane.
This shot of the meteor was taken from a plane.
Video from the event in the city in China's Qinghai Province showed a bright fireball streaking across and lighting the dark sky.
According to reports, the fireball was probably a bolide and it might have dropped several meteorite fragments somewhere in the area.
A bolide is a very bright meteor.
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Observers map AMS event 7938-2020
Observers map AMS event 7938-2020
One video was uploaded to the AMS website. Credit: Frank Breedijk.
The meteor fireball can be seen in the top left corner at the 0:11 mark.
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APD says the callers described the noises as "gunshots," "a transformer exploding," and a "loud boom noise." Multiple people said they could hear at least three different booms. One caller also said this happened before in September.
"Calls to 311 being transferred to 911. 911 operator advised of multiple reports but not explanation," one KXAN viewer wrote to us. They also said they've heard the loud noises since approximately September.
Austin Police sent an officer to the area around 3 a.m. That officer drove around but did not hear the loud sounds.
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The 'small explosion' was heard echoing across the streets of May Bank, Basford, Etruria, and Hanley with many wondering what was going on.
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed it was not called to any explosions in the area.
But families have still been left scratching their heads and wondering what it was.
One resident said: "There was a small explosion over May Bank. Two or more were then heard with the loudest one over Basford Park."
Another added: "There was a loud bang over Basford, it was close to our house and the floors vibrated."
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My first impression of the footage captured in Eagle on Friday night was that it looked like a large aerial firework. The fact that the object made such a loud noise that actually caused people in this neighborhood to scream out, kind of debunks that theory.
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The sound was captured on Nicholas Serra's home surveillance camera around 7:45 a.m.
"It was a loud bang. Felt like a bomb may have gone off," said Hubbard resident Victoria Malphrus.
The source is still a mystery.
The comments came flooding into WKBN before 9 a.m. Some reported their houses shook. Others said they heard what sounded like a loud explosion.
Mirta Chapman, of the Brier Hill neighborhood in Youngstown, said she was working from home around 8 a.m. when she heard a loud explosion and her house shook.
(The sound of the boom can be heard approximately 20 seconds into this surveillance video submitted by a viewer)
Comment: On December 11th, the American Meteor Society received 22 reports of a fireball over Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio and Ontario at around 00:29 UTC.
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Comment: The Daily Mail provides a few more details of the awesome event: It brings to mind the spectacular fireball that roared through Russia's skies on February 15th, 2013, which SOTT reported on at the time: Fireball explodes over Russian city: Widespread panic and structural damage, Thousand people injured
Although there have been a great many smaller events since then, as recorded in our Fire In The Sky section.
See also: Something Wicked This Way Comes
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- MindMatters: The Holy Grail, Comets, Earth Changes and Randall Carlson
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