‘Major’ Fireball Spotted In Pacific Northwest, More Than 200 Sightings Reported

[peoli]

A giant fireball was spotted in the Pacific Northwest Wednesday, sparking more than 200 reports from observers.

The American Meteor Society received at least 234 reports of a “major fireball event” over the Pacific Northwest and southwestern Canada around 6 a.m. PDT. Many reports came from Oregon, as well as Washington, British Columbia, Alberta, Idaho and Montana.

“A fireball is another term for a very bright meteor, generally brighter than magnitude -4, which is about the same magnitude of the planet Venus in the morning or evening sky,” Jim Todd from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry told the Oregon Coast.

AMS experts say the meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere over Washington and traveled east to west, landing in the Pacific Ocean, Fox 12 reports.

Individuals that saw the fireball describe the event as something extraordinary.

http://www.ibtimes.com/major-fireball-spotted-pacific-northwest-more-200-sightings-reported-1450072

[Faux pas]

1. Damn, I missed it.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Another one in New Jersey

I just heard it on the internet


'Ladies and gentlemen, I have just been handed a message that came in from Grovers Mill by telephone. Just a moment. At least forty people, including six state troopers lie dead in a field east of the village of Grovers Mill, their bodies burned and distorted beyond all possible recognition. The next voice you hear will be that of Brigadier General Montgomery Smith, commander of the state militia at Trenton, New Jersey.'

sorry I was time traveling with Orson Wells.

[RebelOne]

10. My mother heard that broadcast in Philadelphia.

She was pregnant with me at the time. She said she hid under the bed.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. If I was pregnant with you

I'd hide under the bed too.......







LOL... cause I'm a guy.

Interesting story,

[Faux pas]

15. LOL

[cbdo2007]

2. Planet x?

[Myrina]

3. Call Giorgio Tsoukalis!!!

ALIENS!!!!

[MisterP]

14. cultist fight!

[Fawke Em]

21. !

[The Straight Story]

5. It was just swamp gas or mass delusion. (nt)

[Jessy169]

6. I saw it!

I was standing on my deck in Lake Oswego (Portland suburb), enjoying the cool stillness of the evening, just spacing out. That's when I saw it, rip-snorting east to west. I never saw anything like that before. It lasted way longer than a shooting star, which is what I thought it might be at first, and it travelled in a straight line with a bright head and a somewhat dimmer trail tailing quite a ways behind it. Pretty amazing. The "bright head" was no larger than the head of a pin, from where I stood. It just disappeared after about five or six seconds. Cool!

[NuclearDem]

7. Crap, I missed.

Meteors are hard to aim.

[randome]

8. Run for your lives!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[pinboy3niner]

9. Okay, whose job was it to keep the matches away from MFM on Beans Night?

[aaaaaa5a]

12. Art Bell would be proud of this thread. NT

[Glassunion]

13. And so my plan begins...

Mwwwaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha!

[Motown_Johnny]

16. If it moved east to west starting in WA, how was it seen in Montana and Alberta?

Idaho would be a possibility, but aren't Montana and Alberta to far east to have seen it, assuming the entrance was over Washington state? It seems more likely to me that it entered the atmosphere farther east than that.

[IDemo]

17. I saw one with a similar trajectory 40 years ago

It passed through the atmosphere for quite a while and still had escape velocity:

[randome]

20. That is cool. Thanks!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[liberal_at_heart]

18. I wish I could have seen that. I am enjoying our first wind of the season. I love hearing wind blow

through the trees.

[yuiyoshida]

19. I was kind of hoping that BURN OUT everyone saw was

Rush Limbaugh's Career.... oh well.