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On February, 17, 2023 about 11:15 PM, local time and off the coast of Abaco island, Bahamas, we saw a “fireball“ passing nearly overhead but somewhat behind our boat, traveling southwest to northeast. We were in our sailboat doing a night passage at the time.
This “fireball“ was so massive it had a bow wake that was very wide. It took about a minute to pass from one horizon to the other. As it approached the midpoint of it’s arc across the sky, I could see a red core, which I assumed was molten hot. The bow wake trail that it left behind did not dissipate until the “fireball“ had passed over the horizon.
I think this “fireball“ must have passed through the very upper reaches of our atmosphere. Just based on my observation and doing some simple math, I think it must have been traveling more than 10,000 mi./min. The bow wake trail itself may have been about a thousand miles wide. I did not have a watch to time it so my calculations may be somewhat off but still close.
The description, “fireball“, is in quotes because we really don’t know what it was. “Meteor or astroid? I think too big to be space junk.)
Someone else must have seen it. It was HUGE.
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