Comments on: Midwestern USA Fireball April 11, 2012

By: Dramatic meteor streaks through evening sky

Dramatic meteor streaks through evening sky — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:44:58 +0000

[...] meteor meets the criteria of a fireball - which is simply a large meteor. Here are some helpful details on fireballs from the American Meteor Society: A fireball is a meteor that is larger than normal. Most meteors are only the size of tiny pebbles. [...]

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:57:27 +0000

And thank you, along with everyone else involved in AMS, for this great resource!

By: amsadmin

amsadmin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:34:03 +0000

Kevin,

Upon further review I believe you are correct and the table has now been corrected to reflect two separate events.

Thanks!

Robert Lunsford

By: Black Feather

Black Feather — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:31:51 +0000

Oh yeah, this light seemed extremely close too. Didn’t have the distance of a shooting star.

By: Black Feather

Black Feather — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:27:17 +0000

Hi,
I reported to this site that around 11:00 pm on the 4/15/2012 from my back yard I saw, a forest green backlit with a lighter shade of green ball flash in the NW part of the sky. It was a little larger than a basketball from my perspective. It didn’t have a tail. No sound. It was like a giant flashlight covered with a green filter moved in a perfect 45 degree angle to the right then turned it off. The event didn’t last long as I was just going to tell my friend to look and it was gone. I live in the NE part of San Antonio in a town called Converse. It was awesome, awesome, awesome….
Last night, I went out at 8:00 pm till 11:00pm to skywatch. There was a bright light in the area bit higher from where I saw the green light the night before. I’m guessing it was a satellite because it disappeared from the sky around 11:30. I’m going to the library for some books on skywatching and digging around for the lenses to my telescope. Have to save money for a tripod it. I am not even an amateur skywatcher I brought the telescope cheap from a lady moons ago (pun intended ) she was going through hard times – I only know the “dippers” lol.
I’m going out every night when I can to see what else is going on in the sky. Beats T.V. for the WOW factor. I hope someone else saw it too.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:43:19 +0000

I think you have 2 separate events listed under #533. While most of the reports are of something that happened ~8:20 pm CDT, there’s a cluster of reports (including mine) from ~9:30 pm CDT (10:30 pm EDT). The report I made may have been off by a few minutes, but was definitely not off by over an hour…the fireball I saw occurred just after I got home from work. I didn’t even leave work until 10:00 EDT, ~40 minutes after most of the reports labelled #533. Looking at the individual reports, I’d say that mine and 3 or 4 others are from a second fireball occurring about an hour after the first.

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:22:30 +0000

I saw what is described as a fireball yesterday April 12th, 2012 in Narberth Pennsylvania. I had never seen anything like it in my life. It looked extremely close and was huge (like a gianst shooting star). I thought it was a plane crashing or something but did not hear a crash. It was a bright ball of light followed by a stream of light like a shooting star. It was also unusual because of the time I saw it; it was just after 8pm at night. It was not that dark yet.

By: Tanika Allen

Tanika Allen — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:53:28 +0000

By the way…Im am in Georgia. I am at work in Evans Georgia at the time of the sighting awaiting my relief. What an amaizing sight. The sky is soo clear, and it seems as if every star in the hemisphere is visible on this beautiful, yet early morning.

By: Tanika Allen

Tanika Allen — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:47:21 +0000

While standing out on the porch this morning around 5:30am April 13, 2012, I was looking at the sky facing the north and noticed how oddly close the stars seemed. Soon after, I saw a bright streak of light shoot across a small area of the sky. My first thought was “Oh my God! Was that a shooting star?” Since I’ve never seen one I instantly took the opportunity to make a wish. I don’t know if the whole “Wishing on a star” thing is true, but I didn’t want my once in a lifetime chance to test this theory to pass me by. It was an awsome sight.