Meteor video footage

[trekkor]

The video has nearly 1M views in three days!

What do you think?
So much for early warning, right?

Imagine if this 'little one' would have hit a city?





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[austin552]

They can't find it so it must just be another UFO.

[peppy]

Do people really ride around with video cameras rolling all the time?

[Pazuzu]

That thing was the size of a baseball when it entered the atmosphere, and the size of a large marble when it hit the ground. Nothing to worry about. I've seen 2 dozen fireballs almost that bright in my time.

[onlycafe]

i have seen some movies that started out that way.

[mike55]

Originally Posted by peppy

Do people really ride around with video cameras rolling all the time?

..it was a police cruiser with a dash cam.....

[krichard]

I saw one similar to that while fishing late one night on the gulf coast. It was like daylight for a couple seconds then black again. Scared the living crap out of us.

[masraum]

That must have been the big one that just recently was seen by lots of folks in Canada.

I recently saw something similar, but smaller here in Houston. It was the first that I had ever seen that looked like it was going straight down. Most that I see seem to be on paths that are more or less tangential to the ground.

[kstar]

They're here.

[JavaBrewer]

Where is the thunder...

[450knotOffice]

Just over a week ago my wife and I were driving home from dinner and watched a large fireball fall seemingly straight down out of the sky. This was not the standard barely noticable horizontal streak, but rather a FIREBALL with a tail and it went nearly to the ground. It was a pretty amazing sight.

A few nights later I was sitting in my cockpit at night heading northbound just south of the San Francsico area and had just finished telling my first officer about the fireball my wife and I had seen a few nights before, when all of a sudden another bright fireball erupted into the high night sky and began falling rapidly toward earth, all the while getting brighter and brighter! Then, just before it seemed that it was going to impact the ground, it exploded like a firework and faded away. It was a pretty amazing sight and was dam* similar to the one my wife and I had seen just a few nights before.

I wonder if the one we saw was the one caught on the police cruiser's camera. They say it was seen in parts of the Northern US.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by masraum

I recently saw something similar, but smaller here in Houston. It was the first that I had ever seen that looked like it was going straight down. Most that I see seem to be on paths that are more or less tangential to the ground.

About 11, 11:30 at night, maybe a week, 10 days ago? To the North? If so, I saw it too. If not, it just proves how common fireballs are

[Eric Coffey]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

That thing was the size of a baseball when it entered the atmosphere, and the size of a large marble when it hit the ground.

Really? I know this is kinda your field, but there have been a couple fairly large (shaped like a big russet potato if I recall) meator rocks pulled out of the desert here in AZ over the past few years (especially the SW valley) after impacts. However, I don't recall any reported light shows like the one in the video. Maybe atmosphere-entry velocity plays a factor?

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Eric Coffey

Really? I know this is kinda your field, but there have been a couple fairly large (shaped like a big russet potato if I recall) meator rocks pulled out of the desert here in AZ over the past few years (especially the SW valley) after impacts. However, I don't recall any reported light shows like the one in the video. Maybe atmosphere-entry velocity plays a factor?

Really. Those baseball sized leftovers were basketball sized and larger in space. The reason no one saw them is because most of them are thousands or millions of years old. Even if one fell last week, there's lots and lots of sky, day and night, that is not being watched by someone at any time.

You gotta get to something that Volkswagen sized in space to start causing some troubles here on Earth.

[Heel n Toe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAGHkEvkDU

[looneybin]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

You gotta get to something that Volkswagen sized in space to start causing some troubles here on Earth.

wasn't the one that made that nice crater in AZ about the size of a box car when it entered the atmosphere?

[Eric Coffey]

Originally Posted by looneybin

wasn't the one that made that nice crater in AZ about the size of a box car when it entered the atmosphere?

I think the one that caused the "Meteor Crater" up near Winslow was over 150 ft in diameter.