Comments on: Fireball over NE USA January 5th, 2013

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:17:13 +0000

my boyfriend and i were driving through a part of pennsylvania ( i don’t remember where, but we were heading to NYC so south eastern Penn.) sometime between 6 and 7 pm on Jan. 5th 2013. coming around a bend in the highway, we were in the midst of conversation when we both stopped and i could do nothing more than just point ahead of us. There was a bright ball, moving from left to right, very quickly! at first i assumed it was just a shooting star, but while i watched it ( it was only viewable for probably 3 seconds) i noticed how big it was, how bright it was, and that it had a large tail to it. The more i think about it the more i think it was fire, and not so much glowing ( as most shooting stars look). i haven’t thought too much about it until just today, when i finally decided to google and see if anyone else saw the same thing. nice to know we weren’t crazy.

By: Patrick McLaughlin

Patrick McLaughlin — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 06:52:37 +0000

I saw a very bright meteor/fireball on this same day, about an hour earlier (it was still daylight, but the sun was starting to set) as I was traveling north on IN Hwy 63 towards Terre Haute, IN, just south of the prison. The object was falling very fast at a 45 degree angle or so, from west to east, and was VERY bright at the end of its trajectory. If you held a ruler at arms length it was about 3/4″ to an inch across the sky. Never seen anything like it in daylight!

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:14:34 +0000

I was traveling east in Saranac Lake, NY @ 1830-1835 when I saw this bright, slower & closer than normal meteor traveling downward @ 45 degree angle, it disappeared behind the moutains or horizon. VERY IMPRESSIVE, when I got to work, I had to tell them, and well, the people at work were calling me Beatrice from Men in Black!