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Mysterious lights caught on video over San Diego had residents guessing — but the U.S. Navy had an explanation. The lights were flares carried by the Navy’s Leap Frogs parachutists as they ...
These were perhaps some of the thoughts of the roughly 50 observers in the Inland Northwest who reported their sighting of a fireball in the sky Monday night to the American Meteor Society. At ...
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An example of a bright, green-hued bolide.. Some ufologists consider green fireballs to be of artificial, extraterrestrial origin. [1] [4] Beyond meteors/bolides, outlier scientific explanations include sequelae of atomic weapons tests, including clouds of nuclear fallout, lunar material ejected from meteor impacts on the Moon's surface, and aircraft associated with secret military projects.
The most powerful meteor air burst in the modern era was the 1908 Tunguska event. During this event a stony meteoroid about 50–60 m (160–200 ft) in size [1] [2]: p. 178 exploded at an altitude of 5–10 km (16,000–33,000 ft) over a sparsely populated forest in Siberia.
A large fireball lit up the skies over large portions the U.S. and Canada Monday evening. The American Meteor Society reported 436 sightings of the fireball, which was seen from northern Michigan ...
The Novato meteorite is an ordinary chondrite which entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke up over Northern California at 19:44 Pacific Time on 17 October 2012. The falling bolide created a bright fireball and sonic booms and fragmented into smaller pieces as the intense friction of passing through the atmosphere heated it and absorbed its kinetic energy. [2]
The Southern Taurid meteor shower is set to peak on the night of November 5, when sky-gazers will get a chance to see bright fireballs blaze across the sky. Why tonight’s meteor shower offers a ...