Comments on: Large Fireball Event Over Central Texas 2/1/2012 @ 20:00 CST

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:47:58 +0000

Does anyone know where it landed?

By: Jonathan Atkinson

Jonathan Atkinson — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:29:59 +0000

In Northwest Austin Sat April 28 Fireball Filmed on camera.

By: Marlen

Marlen — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 04:38:16 +0000

I was driving from San Antonio to Austin and I saw the object in the sky. It was blue and green and feel at a slow speed compared to any shooting star i’ve seen. As it approached the what seemed to be the ground it sped up and disappeared into the distance. It was amazing but scary at the same time. It was definitely not a meteor.

By: Gary Anderson

Gary Anderson — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:59:04 +0000

I was hunting hogs that night in a open costal field in eulogy tx when the night turned to day. I looked p in aww as a giant ball of fire flew through the sky directly over head. The mediorite came from the south west and was travling northeast. about four min. later i heard a fant boom! they say it didnt land in texas but i am almost sure that it had too.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:06:32 +0000

Added the video back online for all to see. THE best footage yet of the 2-1-12 meteor..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8juQ_ld_G7U

By: Barb Phillips

Barb Phillips — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:20:06 +0000

Anne, I think it burned out before hitting the round. When I saw it from the Austin, Tx area, it suddenly went out like blowing out a match. Like you, I was waiting for someone to tell us where it hit. Some people in the Dallas area reported a loud thud and some described it as a loud boom. The Austin news reported one person here planning to go the Dallas area to see if it actually landed somewhere there.

By: Barb Phillips

Barb Phillips — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:00:16 +0000

I was in my car a couple of minutes before 8pm, Wed., 2/1/2012 on Dessau Road in Pflugerville,Tx and saw a bright orange, red and yellow ball of fire with a trailing tail falling very rapidly from West to East at a 45 degree angle. I could have sworn it would impact a mile or two in front of me and was waiting for some boom or explosion when after about 10 seconds, it suddenly disappeared. At first I kept sayin out loud repeatedly..”What is that?” I was both amazed and frightened and looked around to see if anything else was falling. It was quite spectacular and like nothing I had ever seen in my lifetime. I stopped at a station at Parmer and Dessau and a young man came in very excited asking if anyone had seen the meteorite. I shared my excitement since I was the only one in the store who had seen it. The young man and I surmised it must have burned out before hitting the ground. A once in a lifetime experience.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:18:03 +0000

I was driving north bound on Capitol of Texas Highway @ about 8:00 pm when I saw it streak across the sky. It was the closest and longest meteor I’ve ever observed.

By: Alondra

Alondra — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:41:28 +0000

I was sitting on the couch watching tv when I saw a blue ball with flames going down thru the window, it looked very closed. It was north of my house which is about 6 miles NW of Evant, TX

By: Ron G.

Ron G. — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:29:38 +0000

I didn’t see it here in Forney, TX. Instead my son and I were working on homework and had the television muted. We paused to think over a Math problem and we heard a huge thud. Trying to rationalize it, we thought someone was breaking into the house. We quickly ran out the front door and checked the side of our house exposed to the street.and could find nothing. We came back inside and the only thing I could think of was that a dead tree limb fell and slammed on top of the roof on its way to the ground. I was going to check it out in the morning when I heard about the meteorite and sonic boom from the news. Time matched that in which we heard the large thud.

By: Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:03:52 +0000

My experience seems to be a little different than what I have read. I was in my Wylie, Texas backyard. I saw a bright light in the sky. At first I thought it was the headlights of an airplane. Then it got brighter. Next I could see that it was shaped like a flashlight going straight up and down. The wide side of the flashlight shaped object was going east over Dallas. The brightest lights that I have ever seen flashed down and another light flashed west. The lights were clear and very bright. The lights pointing down looked like a searchlight. The lights lasted at least a full second. Then it burnt up. As it burnt up you could see that it was made up of three orange balls, one on top of another. Then it disappeared from view. The total time now was just a few seconds. A few minutes later there was a loud sound, then later another sound. I thought it might of hit something.

By: jack smith

jack smith — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:29:33 +0000

I was in my yard facing south. Suddently the sky turned white and when I looked up there was something in the sky. It looked very close and at first I thought it was a low flying aircraft. It was going east at what seemed like a fairly slow speed. I watched it for a few seconds as it headed to an area north of downtown Dallas. The next day I looked at the internet and realized what it was. I had never seen anything like it and I am 76 years old. It reminded me of aircraft that I have seen as they were crashing.