There cant be too many people just walk outside at 5 am to drink his/her cup of coffee in the early morning quiet, look up see the sky open with a pop, then a flaming fireball sizzling by. Exploding into many small pieces and then disappear. All in about 3 to 5 seconds.
My 1st thought was Huh? and kept waiting for something to hit me too
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It was a Fireball. A meteorite. Got me to thinking it must have been very close for me to hear it. Then Im wondering wait how can you hear something traveling at 86,000 mph and up in the sky? Did some looking and indeed you can hear them sizzle like bacon as one site puts it. While you cant hear them actually its an electrophonic effect of the vibrations of the moving air around the meteorite that our minds sense as sound. Very interesting indeed. To think that if I had walked out a few seconds later I wouldnt have seen it. So far only one other has reported the fireball at the AMS site that morning in the area. Fireballs are not uncommon as you would think. Is whats uncommon is actually seeing them. Ive seen shooting stars so far away they are just blips of light but never an exploding sizzler..Wow
Im buying a lotto ticket saturday night!!!!
Ever seen a Fireball?
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