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Anyone see a green light flashing over Dubai / Abu Dhabi. Did you see anything?Erwin Viado was stuck in slow moving traffic in Al Wasl when his colleague pointed out the object in the sky.
- Emma Brain (@EmmaPinkyB) January 7, 2018
'I saw the flash, while in Menzelinsk. There was also the sound of an explosion and then a vibration, I felt it.'Another witness, Denis Rozenfeld, said:
'A meteor burned out, not reaching the lower layers of the atmosphere. Before this it exploded and split into many small pieces. That is why there was such a sound, which came to us in a few seconds. It's a funny coincidence that such a rare phenomenon for our region has happened right on Christmas.'An astronomer from Kazan Federal University agreed with this assessment. Dr Sergey Golovkin, of the university's Physics Institute said:
'This was a bolide that burnt in the dense layers of the atmosphere which is why it was seen over such a big territory. We didn't register the flash because there was strong blizzard on this night.'
Comment: UPDATE: Wed, 17 Jan. 2018 (18.15 CET)
USGS has registered this event as a M2.0 earthquake with the epicenter at New Haven, just north of Detroit in Michigan. The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received almost 400 reports of the event. The flashing light and loud boom felt across Michigan and seen as far away as New York City and parts of Canada on Tuesday night was a meteoroid entering the atmosphere, according to NASA.
A post on the NASA Meteor Watch Facebook page, said the meteoroid traveled northwest from the Brighton area to the Howell area, citing the American Meteor Society's website. The 1 a.m. post read:
UPDATE: Sat, 20th Jan. 2018
The Daily Mail reports meteorite hunters have found fragments: