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I have never thought to report seeing a shooting star before. But, this fireball was so extreme and like nothing else I'd seen before I had to share. I was driving to my Army National Guard unit and was a few minutes from being late, so I know the time was close to around 0627 Eastern standard time. (I had just crossed into this time zone, as happened at the border of central time zone. When I saw this, it actually scared me (that's hard to do). I almost pulled over and might have if I wasn't running late. I've seen maybe several dozen shooting stars and have intentionally looked out at the sky during about 4 different meteor showers. When I saw it, it scared me because i thought I was looking at a giant rocket shooting downward from really high in the sky or a firework shooting downward (before a firework explodes). I didn't realize it was meteor I noticed the behavior of the trail and just how incredibly fast this object had to be moving. Then I thought either we're getting nuked or a meteor is heading for Earth and may make landfall. I'd never seen a fireball this bright, heading in the downward direction, and produce such a long trail with crazy colors. It fell really far down until I lost sight of it at the tree line. I really wish I had a dash cam in my car because it would have caught the entire event. I couldn't stop talking about this all day and I just had to share. I wish I knew more about this particular meteor/ fireball. I'm happy to share more information. |
