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5:44 PM CST is already dark here. I did NOT see any flash. I was between houses so my first observation was straight North. I ran North to clear visual obstructions and was able to watch the meteor's end in the NW. The meteor travelled at the same elevation above the horizon as long as I viewed it, which was about seven seconds. The meteor's color was mostly White with a small amount of occasional Red and even less of Yellow/Orange. The width of the meteor was about .25* +or_ .1* and remained the same for it's entire viewed period. The trail behind the meteor was consistently about 10*. I DID see a couple of very short periods (fractions of a second) when the Meteor almost blinked out. The meteor's fragmentation was frequent but of extremely short and tiny sparks. The Meteor did not dim at the end but just stopped glowing.
The meteor's magnitude is the hardest to pin down for me. It was certainly brighter than the full moon but did not illuminate the ground very much, if at all. The meteor was not difficult to directly look at (and I had my city night vision at the time).
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