Comments on: Large Fireball Event Reported 4/6/11

By: Melissa Holder

Melissa Holder — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:22:12 +0000

Just before 9 PM, I was traveling East on 131 near the intersection of I-75 just North of Knoxville, TN. The fireball was reddish-orange and appeared to be moving in a NNE direction. At first I though it was a plane attempting an emergency landing at a small airstrip near my location because of the smoke trail behind the bright light. It vanished suddenly, like the light was switched off. The smoke trail dissipated quickly.

By: Richard Walczyk

Richard Walczyk — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:43:20 +0000

I saw a falling fire ball in the western Michigan sky around 10 PM, Tuesday, the 4th , 2011. It was very bright, and didn’t look like it was in “space”, but looked to be in our atmosphere. It almost looked like a firework…Though I do not believe that is that it was. It was falling diagonally towards the ground. It burned up in the air. I have no idea what it was, but it was bright yellow, almost like a firework or a ball of flames.

It was pretty cool, and very clear.

By: james mitchell

james mitchell — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:00:51 +0000

outside of winn dixie, at tavernier in the Florida Keys, waiting for a bus by the highway, and I look in the direction of north, and a meteor that looked like it was the size of a school bus going in the direction of east around 9:30. 9:40 and the front of it was bright green and all around it was very bright white. It traveled for about 5 or 6 seconds until it completely disappeared from my frame of view.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:24:24 +0000

In Massachusetts on May 29, about 845pm saw what was either a fireball, or a meteor in the north sky travelling SE to NW.
It seemed rather low, or maybe it was just that large that it seemed low.
It had the round ball on the front and the tail “coned” back with many brigh colors like blue green yello white. Very beautiful.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 15 May 2011 13:53:19 +0000

Jason here again. Just went outside and it was more like at 30 degrees up from the ground or so from my point of view, not what I said ^^^. White Springs is directly inbetween Tallahassee and Jacksonville Florida, and I am about 25 miles south of the Georgia border. The fireball event I am speaking of here is the April 29th 2011 event. It was very cool, and I am not the only one that seen it obviously!!!

By: Jason Hoffman

Jason Hoffman — Sun, 15 May 2011 13:18:35 +0000

I seen the same thing in White Springs Florida. I am not certian of the time amybe around 10:00pm. I went outside to have a smoke, out of nowhere I see the tops of the pine trees/sky/everything lightup and start flashing like there was a huge electrical storm in the distance. It went on for about 10-15 seconds before it dawned on my what it might be. I was looking east. It was coming from the west/northwest. By the time I looked up towards the morth I caught the last few seconds of it. It was unlike any meteor I had ever seen. It was huge, lighting up everything on the ground, etc. It seemes to be breaking up, and sorta went out at the end. It was at about 60 degrees from my point of view, I assumed it was headed toward the Atlantic ocean. This was a big one like you would see on Meteorite Men on TV. I have been watching the sky since I was a kid, never anything like this before, wow!!

By: Greg Brown

Greg Brown — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:35:06 +0000

I was stargazing approximately 10 miles south of Lamont, Florida (25 mis. east of Tallahassee) April 29, 2011. The time was about 10:00 p.m. local. I was peering at a star chart when the entire country side lit up with an erie green light. My immediate reaction was someone had fired a military flare. I was facing south and turned quickly to the north to see a bright greenish object streaking horizontally from west to east at a moderate speed approximately 20 degrees above the horizon. The angular distance it followed during the time I observed it was about 30 degrees. The object left a greenish trail and was at least half the diameter of a full moon. It disappeared behind a tree line. It took less than 5 seconds from my initial response to it disappearing. It was a spectacular sight, but I assumed it was man-made. However, a colleague at work said he saw it too in Tallahassee. With a Sarasota sighting of a similar object at the same time, I thought I’d post too.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:59:35 +0000

Saw a very bright and low meteor over Sarasota, FL at about 10:05 pm heading due north and seemed to be over the water ~ burned brighter as it got lower, glowing blue white as it seemed to disappear below the trees.

By: john lentz

john lentz — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:03:30 +0000

ok i saw a fireball ,and reported it but it was around 3.30 am mt time , differentthan most posts,do they orbit and come around , all directions ,and discriptions and dates are the same , just different hours ?

By: robert pihl

robert pihl — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:19:54 +0000

We saw a huge blue-green fireball at 10:55pm on 04/09/2011 bright as a sparkler, vanish behind the trees into bever dam state park il. We were very close at this point . It must have been made up of nickel. From our point of view it was the size oh a bulldozer.

By: Donna Salmon

Donna Salmon — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:57:10 +0000

Besides the large fireball I saw a few summers ago during the day, this was by far the biggest brightest with the best tail I have ever seen. It was a cosmic night as we were traveling home from Detroit through Canada when we stopped in Cassablanca rest stop off the QEW. At the rest stop there were about 20 high powered telescopes set up and we got to view the moon and see saturn with the rings. It was such a cool night.

By: :Lisa Ward

:Lisa Ward — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:33:07 +0000

I live in Lenoir City,tn. just outside of west knoxville and I was lying in my bed, petting my dog, when I saw a green ball with a short tail go flying across the sky and right out of my line of sight. but for the couple of seconds that i saw it, i was in awe, it is now clear in my memory.