California Fireball Meteor +19'42 PDT 17OCT2012 - Fragmentation and Sonics! Meteorites!
MBIQ indicates that a meteor was seen minutes ago over California on 17OCT2012 at 07'42 pm. The meteor appears to be slow-moving sporatic fireball meteor and NOT related to the Orionids meteor shower. The meteor fragmented with sonics and is a very good candidate for
Raw footage of meteor breaking up over San Jose captured by our security camera from the Lick Observatory. Starts at
Raw footage of meteor breaking up over San Jose captured by our security camera from the Lick Observatory. (Camera is a little out of focus)
Round structure to the left is the 40 inch Nickel refracting telescope dome.
CHP and local police radio traffic about a San Francisco Bay Area meteor, 10/17/2012
CHP and local San Mateo County police radio traffic about a meteor in the San Francisco Bay Area meteor on October 17, 2012.
A large bright object seen in the night sky all over the Bay Area had everyone talking. Latest details on the object in the sky and our upcoming meteor shower with Chief Meteorologist Jeff Ranieri.
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A meteor shower spawned by history's most famous comet lit up skies above the Bay Area on Wednesday night...
ABC TV10 News
http://www.news10.net/rss/article/213712/2/Meteors-light-up-Northern-California-skies
SF GATE
Fireball Meteor in the Sky Above Claycord
http://blog.sfgate.com/incontracosta/2012/10/17/fireball-meteor-in-the-sky-above-claycord/
Claycord News and Talk
Fireball Meteor in the Sky Above Claycord
http://claycord.com/2012/10/17/fireball-meteor-in-the-sky-above-claycord/
Above Top Secret
'Fireball' spotted in East Bay sky from meteor shower
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread891548/pg1
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Initial Sighting reports:
17OCT2012
Textor
San Francisco
19:42:00
15
South to North
Green to red to fire, breakup, then a boom about 25 seconds later
brighter than the moon
yes
Almost straight north towards Marin
17OCT2012
Kim
Carmel, CA
19:45:50
3 sec
s-n
white
moon
no
no sound.. large in size
17OCT2012
Dina
San Jose, CA USA
19:50:00
5-10 secs is what I saw
Nw
long flaming tail,blue and red, with a bright white ball like shape in front.
very bright, tail was colored and looked like it was on fire, the front of the occurance was bright like the moon
yes
couldnt grab my camera in time
17OCT2012
peter hopper
san jose, CA, usa
20:45:00
6 - 8 seconds
From North to West
Bright White
whiter than the sun. As bright as the sun. But smaller.
broke into two after 5 secs.
Looked like it hit in Milpitas.. or silicon valley, east bay foothills.
17OCT2012
Chris
Merced, Ca
19:50:00
10 sec
Left to right, South to North
White and then Green, no sound. I don't know what it was. white with a white tail fallign fast. Then end part was green, first par twas white. it appeared to split into 3 pcs.
Same as if not brighter than moon. Thought it was a firework. But it was something distant.
Yes, as it fell down and across the sky it fell into 3 pieces and vanishes out of view.
Very shocked, I want to know if anyone else saw it as well. Thank you.
17OCT2012
Marisa
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
19:45:00
30 sec
Facing south going from sw to ne
Bright white to red
Bright as headlights
Sparking off red towards the end
Amazing!
17OCT2012
Charles
San Jose, Ca., USA
19:55:00
5 sec until disappeared from line of sight
s-n, left to right
white&yellow/rushing sound followed by a bang about a min after
sun
yes
no
17OCT20912
James Turk
Scotts Valley, CA, USA
1946 PDT
Approximately 4 seconds.
Started near center of sky, and stopped at about 1/4 of sky away from northern horizon. Traveled south to north, or left to right from my vantage point. I was facing west.
Fireball started out yellow, then flashed to a brilliant white before breaking into numerous smaller parts, each with their own yellowish fireball and trail. The main trail was greenish in color and extended behind the head for about 1/4 of the sky. I did not hear anything.
Brighter than Venus, but not as bright as the sun.
Yes. As the object traveled north, it broke into multiple smaller fragments.
This was the biggest meteor I have ever seen, and I'm 63 years old.
10/17/2012
Marissa Jones
Los Osos, Ca, USA
19:53:00
7 seconds
S-N(left to right) Facing west
White bright ball in front, neon green tail trailing behind
Bright as the moon
Tail fragmented at very end
Beautiful and mysterious
17OCT2012
kelly and amy
Santa Cruz CA
19:50:00
5 seconds
West to East
bright orange/red/white with green in the tail
very bright, like fire works
yes
Looked up and saw what I thougt was a huge fire work in the sky, but it was traveling fast. Very bright, very big.
17OCT2012
Emily
Waterford California
19:45:00
30 seconds
West to north left to right
Green yellow white blue
Venus
Yes
No
17OCT2012
julia
california
7:43pm PST
>5 sec
W; N-E
bright yellow
sun
yes
no
17OCT2012
Kristen Ferris
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
19:45 PST
7 sec
S-N
Red, orange, gold, washed out yellow/no sound
So bright it kept the bright mark retained when I look around for a long time
No, just a very long streak/trail
It was extremely large in every way. It looked like something from a end of the world disaster movie
17OCT2012
Joan C.
Fresno, CA
1955
5 seconds
SW to North
Gold/yellow to bright green
Moon
Looked intact and just got smaller and disappeared
I have never seen anything like it, amazing!
17OCT2012
Robert Ludan
Carmel, California ISA
19:50 PST
5-10 seconds
S-N
Yellow/orang fireball
moon
Material dropping off tail
Appeared to be very low altitude.
17OCT2012
Vanessa
Novato, CA
19:46:00
10 sec
Walking west on Wilson Avenue
Bright white and yellow, no sound
full moon bright
absolutely and
Thought it was a helicopter spotlight until I saw the fragments and heard no sound
17OCT2012
Charles
San Jose, Ca., USA
19:55:00
5 sec until disappeared from line of sight
s-n, left to right
white&yellow/rushing sound followed by a bang about a min after
sun
yes
no
UPDATE! All 300+ Sighting REPORTS can be seen here
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http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.com/
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