Wildwood, Missouri Meteor between 8:30-9:00 pm 29SEP2011
I saw a green ball of light across the sky and disappear going from what appeared to be East to West over Hwy 40 in Missouri close to Wildwood. It was between 8:30 and 9 last night. I was on my way home from parent teacher conferences. It was over the field to the East of the Chesterfield Airport. Don't know what it was. I thought it was probably part of the satellites predicted to fall. It was probably only a few seconds that I saw it. The date was September 29, 2011. Let me know if you find out what it was. Thanks! -Michelle
Thank you Michelle!
Weaubleau, Mo Meteor Fireball just after 9:00 om CMT 29SEP2011
I believe my husband and I saw a fireball last night over 54 hwy between Weaubleau Mo and the intersection for 83 hwy North in a very rural area just after 9pm CMT. It was like nothing I’ve ever seen before and it left us both in awe. It was extremely bright and looked like a ball on fire streaking through the sky. The ball was very large compared to what I’ve seen before in the night’s sky and it traveled from South to North. It seemed to last about 5 seconds and disappeared from our view behind a line of trees so I don’t know the actual time. I’m sure it was very far away but it seemed very close. -Emily
Thank you Emily!
St. Louis, MO Brilliant Green Meteor ~8:20 pm
Last night, Sept 29 at approximately 8:20pm, a brilliant meteor streamed across the Northern sky from east to west. The head of the meteor was green and the tail extended far behind the path. It burned brighter than the moon, and the tail lingered for a good 5 seconds before disappearing.
I am in St. Louis and was driving on a street which ran north with a 10 degree lean to the east.
-Karen Thank you Karen!
Lake Ozark, Missouri Meteor ~8:45 PM Central Time 29SEP2011
I am emailing you to tell you about a meteor that I and a few other people saw tonight (September 29th, 2011) at around 8:45 PM Central Time. The location was Lake Ozark, Missouri near a business called H. Toads Complex down Bittersweet Road here in Lake Ozark. I was working and was we were outside and I was talking to a few people and at the same time was glancing off behind the people I was talking to, when I noticed a bright green object appear on the horizon of the sky to the East. The object was mostly green with a little bit of yellow.
At first I honestly thought it was an airplane landing, then I realized it had a tail and was not the correct color and had more of a glowing aspect rather than lights of an airplane. The object appeared to be totally glowing on all parts of the object, with a small tail. I thought then maybe it was an airplane crashing but I looked a little closer and harder and realized it looked like a meteor falling to the earth. I have never seen anything like this before, but I can tell you for sure it was not an airplane, and it was definately not like anything I have ever seen. I looked up pictures on the internet just to make sure that my hunch of it being a meteor would be accurate and I found several pictures that looked fairly close to what I saw.
I do see shooting stars often, almost every other night when I am taking my dogs for a walk. This object seemed to be over 100 times closer and extremely large. At the time of observing it actually seemed to me that it could have even been close enough to hit the city I live in. The observation time was a total of around 4 to 6 seconds total, enough time to know what it wasn't and get a good enough look to be pretty sure what it was.
The people I was with actually said something to me about it before I had a chance to tell them what I saw. When they told me what they saw, it matched exactly what I had just seen and when I told them that I had just seen the same thing they could not believe it.-Brett Chambers
Thank you Brett!
Indianapolis, Indiana Bright Blue Meteor between 9:00-9:30 EST 29SEP2011
We were driving south on I69 yesterday just north of Indianapolis about 9:00 or 9:30 PM and we saw a bright blue light falling from the sky. Was this a meteorite? It was falling relatively slowly and just disappeared (burned out?). It was quite bright and not high in the sky falling in an arc from maybe 45 degrees to 30 degrees off the horizon west of I69. I think it was around the Anderson area. Thanks! Larry Sernyk Thank you Larry!
Loretto, MN Bright Green Huge Meteor ~9:30 pm 29SEP2011
We were driving home @ 9:30PM and saw the same meteor the others reported, but it was traveling East – West. It was tremendously bright and had a tail that reached from the above our car’s roof-line, and appeared to disappear at the horizon. We were of the impression it was maybe 5-10 miles away (Corcoran – Loretto MN) when it crashed, and we were looking for a fire to be reported the following day. It was wild, bright green and huge, I can say in the past 50 years, I’ve never seen anything even close to the impressive size, color and duration of this meteorite!
I’d looked for a reference to it in the paper, but nothing came-up with the sighting, except for your website. Thanks for letting us share, Gordon
Thank you Gordon!
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