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Large Meteor MA, MD, VA, NY, NH, NJ, DC, PA, RI 28DEC2010 6:45 pm -Add Maine and North Carolina!
A large meteor was seen in Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, Maine and North Carolina on 28DEC2010 at about 18:45 EST.


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Falling Object - Report from Maine
Last night at about 6:50-6:55 I was driving on Rt ! in Kittery Maine. I saw a flash in the sky and looked up to see and object falling. I was looking SW toward I-95. It looked very close, but I couldn't hear anything and when it went out of sight, (hit the ground?) I couldn't see any smoke. It looked gray and rounded at the bottom, flat at the top. It looked somewhat concave from where I was. It had a tail of flame. It didn't look like sparks really, but flame. It looked yellow and orange with texture to the flames and was almost twice the length of the object. It was arching slightly at first and then seemed to fall straight down. Stina Sardinha (contact address on file)

meteor of 12/28/10
I just wanted to let you know that a friend and I saw the meteor from Meredith , NH at about 6:45 last night. It was so close that it looked like it was going to hit just over the hills. Now I’m reading that it looked like that for many people in many other states. Too bad.
It went from looking like a regular shooting star with the yellow ‘tail’ trailing to turning a bright green color right around the object. It was the most amazing thing I have seen.
Thank you for your website. It gave me a place to see that other people had seen the same thing as I did.  Carrie Chase (contact address on file)

Meteorite in New York 28DEC2010

Dear Editor,
Thanks for the confirmation: I saw the meteorite in New York City last night around 6:45 PM. It went from East to West, and was quite bright, appearing like a falling ember. It had a very bright orange "head" with a long white tail; the orange head quickly turned to white within one to two seconds. It was quite beautiful. I wonder where it landed. It seemed low to the ground when I saw it.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.
Culture Editor
America Magazine

Long island
Hello, we saw the meteor in suffolk county. Amazing! Same details as everyone else. Orange bright... I thought know one else had seen it! H.G. (contact info on file)

Meteor at 6:45 PM on 12/28/10

I saw it too in Rhode Island. I was heading due south on Route 295 and it was directly in front of me heading west and down. It was very big and very fast. Does anyone know where it went down? Or did it burn up before it got to earth? It looked way to big to me to have burned up.
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Tom Conklin

Meteor Sighting in Boston, MA
Dear Editor
I just found your site and was happy to see that I wasn't imagining things! I was driving South out of Braintree, MA on Route 128/93 South towards Providence, RI at about 6:45pm and saw the falling meteor in what I would approximate was a South/South Easterly direction. I have never seen something so brilliant, I could see a large white ball at the end w/ a long tail but it then went behind the tree line and I couldn't see it anymore.
Thanks for your site, was very interesting to see how many others saw it too.
Regards,
Michelle L.

Meteor Over Rhode Island

Last night I saw a large meteor fall over Rhode Island . I was traveling S.W. on Rte 95 at around 6:48 between exits 6A and 7. It came high out of the sky from the South, slightly to my left and I thought it was a falling star. I actually started to make a wish (old school), and it became huge, turned green surrounded by a coppery color with a little tiny copper tail and traveled north (left to right), lasting about 3-4 seconds. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in the sky. I wish I had a picture, but I couldn’t even make my wish!
Thanks for letting me share!
Rita Casady
Circulation Marketing Manager
The Providence Journal Company

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Meteor! MetCom readers wrote: (timestamp is Tokyo local time)
Dec 29 2010, 11:51 PM
Guest227 (guest): Hi there. I live in Douglassville, PA (about 1 hr northwest of Philadelphia). I was outside last evening (12/28) between 6:40 -6:50 PM filling birdfeeders. I was startled by something that streaked across the evening sky. It was travelling incredibly fast in a general east-west direction. The 'head' of the object appeared reddish and the very large tail was also a reddish-orange color.The whole thing was over before I barely registered it. It was such an awesome sight that I searched the web this morning

Dec 29 2010, 11:56 PM
Guest96 (guest):Same thing in Moyock NC. Large green ball of fire followed by a long bright tail - very low in the sky with an angle similar to a landing aircraft. Appeared to go down behind the tree line near Northwest annex naval support activity on the NC/VA border.I was heading south on South Mills Rd -took a look at the map and based on my location when I saw it - it was traveling NE to SW.Time based on my immediate call to my husband was 6:46-6:47.

Dec 30 2010, 12:08 AM
Guest494 (guest): We saw a green fireball as we were traveling on Interstate 95 South, just before exit 2 at Attleboro, Mass.It was quite low on the horizon, moving left to right more or less perpendicular to the interstate. The time was roughly 6:45 pm EST. PS That was 12/28/2010 at about 6:45 pm EST (the sighting from I95S near exit 2).

Dec 30 2010, 12:19 AM
Guest396 (guest): My daughter and I saw something white with a green tail falling from the sky around 6:45 p.m., Princeton,NJ. I'd never seen anything like it!

Dec 30 2010, 1:16 AM

Guest57 (guest): I saw the same thing around 6:45 PM. I am in Bishopville,Maryland

Dec 30 2010, 3:18 AM

Guest598 (guest): I'm still in awe of what I saw last night over NJ skies. How often does this kind of thing occur? It was a huge green spectacle falling down through the clouds. Incredible!

Dec 30 2010, 5:31 AM

Guest605 (guest): Last night I was driving and at around 6:45 in Newton, NJ I saw a fireball in the sky fly by. It was beautiful as it went through the clouds, it changed colors. Awesome!!!

Dec 30 2010, 8:44 AM

Guest347 (guest): Saw the meteor last night form Northern RI, it was to the Southwest.

Dec 30 2010, 9:04 AM

Guest288 (guest): At about 6:45 PM last night (Dec 28) I observed a large meteor in the sky over Central NJ. It was traveling from East to West. A bright white tail which turned red,then blue, then gone. All in about one second. Followed a low trajectory through the sky. A beautiful sight!

Dec 30 2010, 9:41 AM

Packrat (guest): We saw a meter on 26 dec at 1800 hrs driving north on hwy 14 in CA. It went from sw to SE on the horizon... We were almost to Mojave, CA at that time...

Dec 30 2010, 10:47 AM

(guest): Guest 616: At 6:50 last night my wife and I saw a lime green fire ball travel from east to west last night as we drove west on Sound Ave in Wading River NY. It had a small white center with sparks shooting off the sides as it tore through the evening sky. It had a rounded front and a flame-like rear.Stunning in its color and apparent closeness to the Earth.

Dec 30 2010, 11:04 AM

Guest68 (guest): I saw the same fireball from my back porch in Smyrna, DE ..It was an amazing spectical

Dec 30 2010, 1:15 PM

Guest476 (guest): ~6:50, Exton, pa - saw bright green flash,when I looked up I saw a meteor break into pieces and fade out overhead. Was traveling due north or north west. This was on the 28th.

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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 28th 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