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Meteor Crashes? in Texas September 21st
We ducked!
- Brent S of Goldwaite,Texas
AMSMeteors.org
- When: September 21st
- Where: All over Texas, but especially North Central
- What: Bright green meteor, large and close to earth
Habitual star gazers, and people simply looking up at the sky at the right time, reported to AMSMeteors.org seeing a fantastically large, green fireball light up their neighborhoods:
Perseid Meteor Shower in TX
Like last night’s. People used to seeing shooting stars were floored by the September 21st flyby – this shooting star’s bright beauty was unprecedented. If you weren’t lucky enough to see it, (like me, boo hoo), then step into the shoes of those who were. Here are some highlights from the many, many witness reports:
Excellent green color, very bright terminal flash. Best event I’ve ever seen by far. Won’t soon forget this one.
- Corey M, AbileneBrightest bluest I’ve ever seen. Not the typical shooting star I see regularly. I would love to know what it was.
- Christopher C, PflugervilleIt was intense…I’ve never seen one of those that close to earth before!! Extraordinary!!
- Heidi G, San AntonioI watch meteor showers regularly, for the past 20 years and have never seen one this big.
- Natalie C, Round RockBright blue green like lightening with what appeared to be a fire like tail glowing red orange. Was extremely close and lit up neighboring roof tops. Zero clouds!!
- Hilery C, Fort WorthIt was the biggest an brightest I’ve ever seen! It was amazingly beautiful!
- Danielle W, HallsvilleI was on the phone with my mother who lives in Electra, TX, and she was on her back porch. We both witnessed the event, and after discussing our approximate observation angles we
determined that it must have been the same one. We live about 2.5 hrs away from each other. Before realizing she saw it too, I initially thought the meteor’s size was that it was less
than a few miles away due to how fast it fell and how long it lasted. Afterwards, it realized that the meteor had to be larger, further away, and higher in elevation that I first judged.
- Ian M, DentonIt to about 30 seconds to cross the sky from west to east. I never saw a plane move that fast. What was it?
- WTf, writing on a Godlikeproductions.com forumJust a minute ago … anyone else see it? It didn’t streak across the sky, it went straight down
- Another GLP threadBright object shooting from night sky. Turned purple blue then Exploded and burned up right above ground
- Reported to TUS by a reader
Someone unsuccessfully tried to spread a rumor that the same night, a meteor stuck the Texas Capital (Austin, or Austin’s capitol building, who knows) on Godlikeproductions.com. But instead of this gossip remaining on the site for all to scrutinize, the thread was removed…
If Texans were impressed by this fireball, they are advised to hang on to their cowboy hats, because the best is yet to come. According to Texas Storm Chasers, this is likely debris from Comet ISON, which will arrive in Earth’s orbit by December of this year. Astronomers guess that ISON will give an underwhelming show.
My guess? Astronomers aren’t very good guessers, and ISON is already making itself known. Whether we get its wrath head on, or in a more indirect fashion, doesn’t really matter… I have a feeling we’ll see a ton more record-breaking fireballs before the year’s out. Let’s hope we don’t get another Russia.
will somebody tell me why I have to log in often? I mark save my password. annoying since I have to find the password. Anyway I wnt to see a video of this- Where it is?
I would love to see video, too, unfortunately I don’t think any have surfaced (yet). If any do, I’ll be posting it on Texasufosightings.com.
I got my cake…..(21st september)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fireballs++21st+september&oq=fireballs++21st+september&gs_l=youtube.12…29311.36554.0.38579.16.16.0.0.0.0.110.1292.15j1.16.0…0.0…1ac.1.11.youtube.kDm52KiTOV8