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Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News wrote (posting times are in Japan local time):
Dec 29 2010, 9:40 AM
Guest602 (guest): I saw facing north from
Silver Spring, Intersection of I 95 and I 495 the same fireball Dec 28 about
18:45. It
moved very fast from SE to NW high in the sky and flashed off about midway across the sky. It grew brighter with a tail and then looked like the kind of spark a metal flake makes: irregular not regular, round or radial.
Dec 29 2010, 9:41 AM
Draco18s (guest): That is definately the same event I saw. I caught it mid-arc when it flashed and saw the "metal sparks"
Dec 29 2010, 9:42 AM
Draco18s (guest): said sparks make me think it was space junk
Dec 29 2010, 9:43 AM
Guest816 (guest): That was the one we saw.The tail really lingered. I thought it looked pretty round,though
Dec 29 2010, 9:43 AM
Guest785 (guest): My daughter saw a meteor with a long,blue and multi-colored tail,
around 7 pm,EST, as she was headed east from
Richmond, Va, on 64 W, on way to Williamsburg, and she said it seemed to be very close to the freeway; it measured about 3 and a half inches on her car's windshield, but, of course, she didn't know how far away it was. I told her I'd post it and see if anyone else saw it. She was it for several seconds and kept marveling over the colors and the large size.
Dec 29 2010, 9:48 AM
Draco18s (guest):Sounds like the same one. Due to observable area, it was likely near-orbital.
Dec 29 2010, 9:48 AM
Draco18s (guest): (PA,MA, and VA locations so far, plus Silver Springs in an unnamed state)
Dec 29 2010, 9:50 AM
Guest602 (guest):
Silver Spring,Maryland
Dec 29 2010, 9:50 AM
Guest816 (guest):Silver Spring Maryland, just inside the beltway, sorry!
Dec 29 2010, 9:50 AM
Draco18s (guest): its ok. I was just trying to find the place on the map and there was more than one Silver Springs
Dec 29 2010, 9:52 AM
Guest756 (guest): Saw it awhile ago over
Sparks MD. Huge,trailing sparks and seeming low in the sky. Hour ago around
6:45pm or so.
Dec 29 2010, 9:55 AM
Guest602 (guest):There are several Silver Springs – plural, but only one Silver Spring – singular that I know of and that is in Maryland.
Dec 29 2010, 10:07 AM
Guest602 (guest):Comments about “low in the sky” describes to me what I saw as a bright, wide, lingering tail and even wider brighter flash at the end while it was climbing above three quarters from the horizon making it”appear” low in the atmosphere. There was a commercial airliner behind it coming in on a final approach to BWI Airport, and at first it “appeared” lower but there was no sound and nothing that looked like a rain of debris.
Dec 29 2010, 10:39 AM
Guest227 (guest): Saw the same from
Fredericksburg VA looking just slightly east at 30 degrees from North
about 6:40PM. It was bright white head with a nice long tail. It ended in what I would describe as sparklers.
Dec 29 2010, 11:04 AM
Guest876 (guest): Saw a very bright object trailing a tail about 8 inches across my field of vision. this happened
about 6:45PM in the
Bronx, NY, walking home from work. The object was in the south moving from east to west in a downward angle of about 20-30 degrees and was about 125 degrees up (if straight up is 180 degrees). The tail was a bright white and the head was orange. It 'burst' and then disappeared. all this in a matter of 2-3 seconds
Dec 29 2010, 11:12 AM
Chad44 (guest): I saw a green flame coming from a falling meteorite. I was heading east on Rt.20 in
Northborough, Ma just over the
Marlborough line at
6:46pm. It was falling towards the north and I have no idea how to judge distance, but it didn't seem far away.I'm guessing it fell in Northborough, West Boylston, or Berlin.Anyone have info or see it from another point to help triangulate it? It was very cool to see, and it got me interested in looking for more info online.
Dec 29 2010, 11:13 AM
Chad44 (guest): it was today, 12-28-2010
Dec 29 2010, 11:17 AM
Chad44 (guest): i just read the other responses, and im guessing it was not as close as i thought-since the time line fits in with this one you have been talking about.
Dec 29 2010, 11:59 AM
Guest323 (guest): I was driving on 495 South by the
Acton exit and saw the meteor. The light was very bright, and had a greenish color. It seemed to break-up into 2 or more pieces before dissappearing.It is hard to judge distance, but it did not feel like it was too high.
Dec 29 2010, 12:25 PM
Guest859 (guest):Tonight,
28Dec 2010,sometime around 7pm EST. I was driving north across the 14th St. Bridge in
DC when I saw this bright green fireball moving across the sky from the SE to the NW at a slight downward angle, just visible through the top edge of my windshield. It lasted for a few seconds before burning out in a flash. It appeared to break apart with several bright particles fizzling out through its tail. It was low enough I could see an airplane off in the distance behind it...was pretty cool.
Dec 29 2010, 12:58 PMGuest332 (guest):
December 28th at 6:53 p.m in Billerica saw Firey ball flash down sw to nw thought it was low enough that I thought it was going to hit earth just beyond the houses
Dec 29 2010, 1:22 PMGuest244 (guest): On
December 26, at 1:33 am, I was traveling southbound on
I69 around mile marker 78 in Indiana. It looked like a shooting star, but it was a iridescent looking blue-green. It was close- even from the distance that I was away from it, it still looked about an inch or so wide. It lasted for about 8 seconds or so, the faded behind the tree line. It was beautiful, but it didn't look like anything else I have ever seen in my 32 years. It looked like the one in DC, but 2 days earlier.
Dec 29 2010, 2:32 PM
Julie Yu: 12/28 tuesday about
7pm near westbourgh MA rt9 very long tail falling from sky then sparked.
Dec 29 2010, 11:00 PM
Guest676 (guest):
12/28/2010 at 6:47p.m.While driving on Springwoods Drive in
Woodbridge,Virginia. A bright flash and blue and yellow tail in the northeastern part of the sky. My mouth fell open. It was spectacular. No need for more of a decsription, as most folks on here got it down. I did have enough bearing to make a wish! Did anyone else?
Dec 29 2010, 11:02 PM
Guest759 (guest):DEC 28TH 6:45 PM EST PHILADELPHIA PA SAW TWO BLUE FLASHES LOOKED UP AND SAW A VERY LARGE METEOR WITH BRIGHT COLORS AND A LARGE TAIL
Dec 29 2010, 11:43 PM
Guest764 (guest): I saw a fireball on the 2
8th of dec. around 10:00 Pm in Davenport Iowa. It was headed due north.
Dec 29 2010, 11:46 PM
Guest280 (guest): I saw a lime green tadpole looking thing (meteor?) over just Falmouth, Massachusetts dec 28th 2010 before 7pm. It was large, slow and distinct, an amazing lime green. I was on route 28 near Falmouth lumber heading towards Falmouth Center it was to my right.
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Chad B said...
I saw a green flame coming from a falling meteorite. I was heading east on Rt.20 in Northborough, Ma just over the Marlborough line at 6:46pm. It was falling towards the north and I have no idea how to judge distance, but it didn't seem far away. I'm guessing it fell in Northborough, West Boylston, or Berlin. Anyone have info or see it from another point to help triangulate it? It was very cool to see, and it got me interested in looking for more info online.
--Chad--
10:55 AM
Diana said...
Yes, I have seen the same
green flame at 6:46pm today while driving south on Rt 287 at about the border
between New York state and New Jersey. I had never seen such a large meteorite, and of that beautiful color. It has crossed the sky in fron of my car from my upper-left to my lower-right, so since I was driving south it means that the direction was roughly from north-west to south-east.I hope it helps.
Great sight!
Diana
11:56 AM
Diana said...
Correction: the
direction was north-east to south-west
12:07 PM
