Comments on: Chesapeake Fireball on February 3rd, 2012

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:35:45 +0000

I saw one Friday, February 3, 2012 at approximately 10:15 PM while in Allentown, PA. I was glad to see I was not imagining this. It was truly exciting to see.

By: yvonne

yvonne — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:50:05 +0000

Feb 9th, 2012 about 6 pm. Chesapeake, VA, Greenbrier area. My daughter and I saw a bright yellow streak shoot across the sky, for about 5 seconds. It went out of sight behind trees. My husband who was on I-64 in Virginia Beach, saw the same thing. It was amazing.

By: john

john — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:37:26 +0000

i saw something in hayes va around 4 today feb 9 2012 had a bright white with a tint of yellow on the outer parts it was moving faster then the helicopter on the other side of the sky with an arch path from the looks of it it should break up over the Chesapeake bay it was intresting to watch hadnt seen one before today

By: Christina

Christina — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:07:39 +0000

Didn’t get a video of it, but we will never forget it! My boys and I were riding our bikes and I noticed an orange light in the sky. We all came to a stop and stared at the huge bright fireball in the eastern sky, streaking down towards the earth. For an uneasy second or two I thought it was a plane in distress going down over Ft Knox, but realized that it was a meteor. We were standing on the bottom of a hill when we first saw it, and ran up to the top to get a better look. As we ran, it simply winked out. We three were stunned and mystified, and immediately ran back to my mothers to turn on the the news. There was nothing locally reported, and I thought it was most unusual that there seemed to be no one who saw it. And it appears that I was right, about Kentucky anyway! What an experience!

By: w.j. Elvin

w.j. Elvin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:12:24 +0000

I was walking the dog that evening in Upper Fairmount on Maryland’s Eastern Shore between but west of Princess Anne and Pocomoke, saw the fireball as was mentioned like a magnesium flare with a big forefront ball. I was looking north and a bit west. It’s a toss up whether it was over land or the Bay but I’m glad to have found these reports, I worried the next day that I should have called in a flare report to police as it might have been a boater in trouble. Thank you for easing my mind.

By: AnnaMaria

AnnaMaria — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:35:51 +0000

I saw a meteorite in West Chester 2/6/12 approx 6:15 pm!

By: Claude

Claude — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:58:52 +0000

I saw the meteorite about 4 miles south of West Chester, Pa that nite

By: Gail Cooper

Gail Cooper — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:11:58 +0000

I saw this as I was walking south on Broadway in New York City last night; it was spectacular. Like burning magnesium, shedding sparkling bits of brilliance, white to blue-white. It lanced almost straight down, looking like it was spearing the Battery downtown: about 20 degrees off vertical, falling east to west. This part of Broadway is right at 4th Street, and points south.

I was so surprised that I called out to the other pedestrians, “Did you see that???” and a couple of men walking ahead said, “Yeah, cool.” No one else seemed to catch it, but it was visible in the slot between the skyscrapers for all of two seconds. It was huge: you could see its roundness. About half the apparent diameter of the Moon. It actually looked like a disaster-movie asteroid coming in!

Stunning. I hope someone caught video of it, but its trajectory was so steep that I fear there wasn’t time. Never saw anything like it in my life.

By: Mary C

Mary C — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:41:50 +0000

Driving on Valley Road in Montclair New Jersey at approx 10:20 pm,saw an amazing meteor in the south western sky. It was a very bright flash with a short tail. Perfect timing a couple more feet and it would have been hidden behind big oak trees.