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I apparently never reported this, but I do remember it and wrote up my experience to send to a friend in an email that same day, so fortunately I have many details even 17+ years later.
I'm adding a personal story surrounding this event here. It isn't scientifically worthy, and you who are reading this certainly may not care, but I'm sending it anyway, lol. This fireball heralded the birth of our 5 kittens, born to a beautiful, precious stray cat who was roughly 1.5 years old when we took her into our home a little over a month earlier.
Kitty, as we very uniquely named her, began giving birth about 30 minutes after my wife and I witnessed this fireball, which we just so happened to be outside to see. A few hours later, right around the vernal equinox that same morning, 5 beautiful babies had entered our lives (and our hearts, as we quickly found). Incredibly, four of them are still here with us today: Sweetie, Screamer, Pretty, and Little Boy. Kitty passed away on Sunday, November 10, 2019 from liver cancer. Runner passed away exactly five years later to the day, again on a Sunday, November 10, 2024.
I hope you don't think I'm too crazy for sharing this story with you, but my memory of this fireball will forever be connected with their births. I've always found it so fitting that the arrival of our babies, who, along with their mother, have been and continue to be some of the most significant and certainly brightest parts of our lives, was heralded by a literal blazing trail across the sky.
If you made it this far, well, thank you for your patience and for listening to our story. :-) |
