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I emailed Monica at SkyandTelescope.com who pointed me here. I keep trying to tell her this actually wasn't a fireball. If it was, it literally came directly and I mean directly at us. My wife and I are both college graduates. I majored in applied physics and have taken every single astronomy class available at my university and my wife is now a k12 teacher. We both witnessed this extremely bright white flash from our back deck, lasting between 1 to 2 seconds, maybe 3 seconds given the awe factor at the time. Mere days later, LIGO detected what was later determined to be gravitational waves. http://www.space.com/31970-gravitational-wave-detection-no-fireworks.html was posted today to Space.com and I can also provide my email exchange with Monica as well; point being that what we witnessed needs to be confirmed. I reported this sighting the next morning to her and to Spaceweather.com and can tell you with about 95% accuracy, this wasn't a fireball. I've built my own mini, fully functioning radiotelescope for college and again, I'm highly suggesting this wasn't a fireball. Trust me, I've witnessed my fair share of fireballs, meteors, comets etc. I just have no other way of filing a report (to my knowledge) on what we witnessed. I told Monica that this was as if a government somewhere, detonated a nuclear bomb just east of Cassiopeia and north of Andromeda near HIP117340. It was as bright as the sun. Please get back to me in regards to this, if at all possible. ISBELLR@SOU.EDU, REIDI@UOREGON.EDU |
