Cluster of fireballs spotted across the southeastern United States
"Officials" state that these were probably the remnants of Starlink satellites burning up in the lower atmosphere. My wife called me Friday morning about 30 miles east of where we live and told me to go outside and look to the southeast. She told me it looked like a rocket spewing fire and smoke in the eastern sky headed south. I couldn't see it, but she watched it for some time. I looked online and at that time didn't see anything pertaining to the sky mystery. I spotted this STORY today. Had I witnessed the cluster blazing across the sky at night, the first thing I would of thought is, "well, this is it". LOL
Click here to see a good video of the fireball and trail. COOL VIDEO
Just more toxic material in the atmosphere. First at launch then at reentry.
ReplyDeleteLooks to me like a meteorite breaking up. Probably the trailing edge of the Leonoids.
ReplyDeleteI saw the same thing about six weeks ago. I counted twelve individual chunks of debris as they flared across the sky. I got onto the internet and typed in ‘meteor in SW Idaho just now’ and got directed to a Reddit post that said it looked an awful lot like StarLink reentry and was fairly common.
ReplyDeleteIt has been the most spectacular thing I’ve ever seen in the night sky.
I have spent about half of my working life working at night with easy access to outdoors. I seen 2 similar events. One in the mid/late 1980's and I think the other was in 2003. It was surreal and I expected a sonic boom or ground shake but only a slight rumble shortly after the '03 event. ( was not shuttle colombia tragedy) There was a cursory mention on ms media newz both times if I recall correctly. Back when I used to watch occasionally.
ReplyDeleteI saw and heard the Addison Meteorite back in 2012. It was daylight. The sonic boom was significant. There were three pieces found withing three miles from the farm where I was raised. There were so many meteorite hunters that the government put out a couple of false stories to deter star hunters from searching in the nearby national forest where some pieces did land. This went on for weeks afterwards.
DeleteIt looks like the robot lions from the 1980s Voltron cartoon
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