Comments on: August 29th 2012 Fireball Over Over Mid-Eastern USA

By: Diego

Diego — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:59:28 +0000

I took a picture of what it seems a fireball/meteorite from NJ on August 30 2012. Can’t find any comments on the web. Can mail picture if interested. Thanks

By: Robert Balash

Robert Balash — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:27:32 +0000

I found a heavy black magnetic rock that thursday morning in the grass in Buffalo NY I was trying to figure out if it was a meteorite and i read this report now Im wondering maybe it is.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:22:58 +0000

Forgot to mention my location, Kannapolis, NC

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:58:24 +0000

I stepped outside to let my dogs out around 9:30-9:45 August 29 and I saw an orange ball falling from the sky. I could see it burning and as it burned, it formed a bright green triangular shaped tail. I watched it for several seconds before it disappeared beyond the tree line. How awesome!

By: John Wonderley

John Wonderley — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:20:09 +0000

On 8/29/12 at ~9:50PM I was in my house wqtching TV. I live ~8 miles east opf Christiansburg, VA. I heard this noise that sounded like an Osprey which has 2 large propellers one on the end of each wing. The noise that lasted ~10 seconds started from the NW and disapeared somewhere SE of where I live. I have seen Osprey air planes fly over before but never close enough to shakle the house. Could this have been a Meteor that a lot of people saw at about that time? Could it have been breaking the sound barrier and that is what I heard?

By: Mary Dunnam

Mary Dunnam — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:32:00 +0000

I saw this meteor driving through Winston-Salem, NC at around 9:48 p.m. I’m used to seeing small meteors out in the country on a clear, moonless night, but never anything like this – and certainly not in the middle of a major city with a bright moon nearby. It was spectacularly beautiful!

By: Lisa Barbour

Lisa Barbour — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:29:40 +0000

I was sitting outside my home in Clemmons, NC and witnessed the meteor right in front of me. I first thought it was a shooting star but it seemed to be right in front of my then turned a beautiful green color and seemed like it landed with a mile from me! It was beautiful and I am so excited that I was not going crazy with this sighting. I posted on FB about seeing it and my friends thought I was on drugs! haha

By: Beatriz

Beatriz — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:28:31 +0000

Im not sure if its the same, but I saw one over Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico on August 29, 2012 at 9:12pm AST. Green beautiful one.

By: Angela Brown

Angela Brown — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:17:28 +0000

Last night about 10:00pm. I was standing outside with my sister an we witnessed a fireball. At the time we weren’t sure what we were seeing. Very bright vivid colors of blue an green even some orange/yellow. We are in Mountain City,Tn. This is in NE tn. Our county bourders N.C. and Va.

By: amsadmin

amsadmin — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:20:57 +0000

Anne Marie,

You witnessed a different meteor.

Robert Lunsford
American Meteor Society

By: Anne Marie Saldajeno

Anne Marie Saldajeno — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:36:03 +0000

We saw it in Seattle around 8:50 pm PST. From our view it hovered in the eastern sky, with a bright firey head and sparks emitting from the tail. It glowed brighter and seemed to hover, not streak across the sky (which was why I wasn’t sure it was a meteor)…then suddenly it burned out and disappeared. Glad the rest of you saw it, but in the West it looked different than described in the East.