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Remarks |
I cannot pretend to be an expert witness, but I am confident in what I had witnessed was the first, and likely the last, fireball meteor that I had ever seen. It being the first, the surprise of it may have altered my judgement of some details, but I will share to the greatest of my ability. I was traveling on North I-95, Virginia, where I believe I had just passed the National Museum of the Marine Corps. It traveled from above my hood before I had view of it through the car front window. It looked as if it was traveling in my same direction and square in front of me. I believe the event lasted just above 2 seconds, traveled incredibly fast with a yellow/white tail (my memory of it seems like the trail had tiny intervals where it was smaller in width or gone altogether, almost like it was skipping water, which may be a poor metaphor), and terminated in a brief orange/yellow explosion before disappearing. It was not in close proximity in view to the moon, and was visible in the black night sky. Had it been a longer event, I would have most heartily recorded it to the best of my ability. |
