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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI remember once seeing a fireball fly over my house one night.
It was the damndest thing. I was pulling into to the driveway of my house one night, and I just happen to look up and see a very clear and distinct ball of fire hurdling through the air, right over my house.
I have no idea how far away it was, but it couldn't have been that far given how distinct it was.
I didn't hear or feel any impact, and even though the area around my house was heavily wooded, nothing caught fire, so whatever meteor or debris that it was must have burnt out before hitting the ground.
Has anyone else ever witnessed this in person?
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)It was green and, like you, I could have sworn it was literally just feet above the houses. I even went looking in the neighborhood where I was sure it came down.
However, many years later I learned how far away these events can be seen, and how people from hundreds of miles away still think it is in their neighborhood. It's weird.
tridim
(45,358 posts)They usually burn up before hitting the ground.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)a busy road in metro Detroit at night.I saw it out of the corner of my eye at first and thought I was seeing things.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)I thought a plane had crashed. I heard of no reports on the radio or TV. I think I was the only one looking up at the time. It reminded me of the one in Russia only silent.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Over 40 years ago. Too bad the footage was Super8 film instead of a smart phone
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)It went west to eat across the late afternoon sky. It was so large I thought I should be hearing something to go along with the visual, but just silence.
I thought "is this the beginning of the end?".
News reports later showed it to be a Russian satellite re-entering. It scattered parts across east Texas and Louisiana.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)It was green and very bright, went from left to right in front of me, split in two and disappeared.
Whatever remained undoubtedly landed in the Atlantic...