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On the Friday a week after the Chelyabinsk meteor incident, I was standing outside about 9 pm, at my house on College Road.
A meteor or other similar object that was pretty vivid crossed the sky to the north, from west to east. I just now went outside and stood where I was, and with my handy-dandy iphone measured the angle to about where it went behind my big spruce trees, at about 60 degrees above horizontal. As I remember, it had a greenish tail, and was burning at the core with intense white.
About 2/3 of the way across its arc it split into two pieces, went a bit farther along, and went out. It was much bigger and "slower" than the typical "shooting star". Probably visible for more than one second and less than four.
I almost thought I could hear a hissing noise, but with the noise of light traffic on College Road I couldn't be sure. And my ears aren't so good anyway.
I looked around on the internet, and could not find an Alaskan site for reporting this event, or any evidence that anyone is interested in such reports.
Now, in 2016, I have contacted the Geophysical Institute at UAF and they gave me your contact information. Because the memory is vivid and I can stand right where I was when I saw it, I believe that my description is pretty accurate. And I don't have to remember the date, because that is indexed to the Chelyabinsk meteor incident, .
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