Mysterious explosion in the sky photographed over California

Residents of Southern California flooded social networks during the night with publications wondering about a mysterious flash of light seen in the skies early on November 20. Most witnesses described the phenomenon as an ''explosion'' in the early morning sky. Whatever it is, law enforcement agencies throughout the region are not saying anything. What happened in the skies of California?

The local news agency KTLA reports that the phenomenon was observed throughout Southern California, with reports of residents moving from Long Beach to San Diego and into the interior of Riverside. Whatever the event, it must have been great. Twitter was full of curious and curious publications from the residents describing what they had seen and asking others if anyone had an answer. ''We definitely saw two rays of light in the sky this morning on Vern's dog walk,'' posted a user named Rob Webb. He managed to capture an image of the phenomenon, an image that definitely
makes the event look more like a streak, possibly suggesting a meteor event in the atmosphere.

Definitely saw 2 streaks of light in the sky this morning on Vern's dog walk. Managed to snap a pic of the 2nd one, right next to a plane. pic.twitter.com/xP29BEaBg7

— Robb Webb (@Robbwebb3) November 20, 2018

Watch the biggest explosion ever seen on the Moon

On March 17, 2013 a meteor with the explosive power of TEN cruise missiles has struck the Moon - sparking a massive explosion visible with the naked eye.
And terrifyingly the 56,000 mph collision - captured by NASA scientists highlighting the catastrophic danger planet earth faces from similar meteors - was caused by a space rock weighing no more than 40 kilos.
Despite the meteor's tiny proportions - about the size of a small boulder and the weight of an average 10-year-old boy - the impact damage was collosal and the explosion shone with the brightness of a magnitude 4 star.
A spokesman for respected science website Science.com said: ''For the past eight years NASA has been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteors. They've just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the programme. It exploded in a flash 10 times as bright as anything we've seen before. Anyone looking at the Moon at the moment of impact could have seen the explosion - no telescope required.''

             

Chelyabinsk-sized asteroid set to pass between Earth and the Moon

Here is another newly found asteroid set to pass very close to our planet.

Asteroid 2017 BS32 set to pass between Earth and the Moon Feb. 02. The space rock was first observed by Catalina Sky Survey on 2017-01-30.

It will fly by Earth at a distance of 161280 km which is about 0.4 times the distance to the Moon at a speed (relative to the Earth) of 11.57 km/s. It is estimated to be 11 m - 26 meters in size. It has a condition code of 7 belongs to a group of asteroids, named Aten.

             

Large fireball illuminates the sky of Colombia and Venezuela

A large exploding fireball illuminated the night sky of Colombia on December 16, 2016.
The Geminid bolide struck the skies over the municipalities of Bucaramanga, Giron and Zapatoca of the department of Santander and the municipality of Yopal of the department of Casanare.
A similar sighting was reported from the Venezuelan state of Apure.


     
             
             
             

Massive meteor explodes in the sky over Norway

Source photo: Ronny Tertnes.

A huge meteor exploded and lit the sky over Bergen, Norway, on December 6th, 2016.

Around the clock 5:15 Tuesday morning came a large meteor entering the atmosphere west of  Shetland, with a speed of 20 kilometers per second, according to the nrk.no website. Those who were out at this time could see a bright light in the sky and then a shooting star.

''I heard about the meteor when I woke up this morning. When I ran out to check my camera. And there was the meteor, right in the picture! It is almost inconceivable to have so luck,'' says Ronny Tertnes.

Tertnes has a camera standing on the terrace of Valle in Bergen, which stands ready to catch whatever might happen in the night sky. If something happens, the camera takes it up.

''I've got some good pictures with this camera, but this is the toughest I've got, no doubt,'' he says.

The meteor that came through the atmosphere west of Shetland. The spent probably 12 to 15 seconds through the atmosphere before it fell down about 200 kilometers from the coast.

''What happens is that the stone collides with the air as it enters the atmosphere. The speed is so great that the air in front is that a concrete wall. When it explodes, and the strong light is because it is released energy, and that the stone is brutally heated,'' says astrophysicist Tor Einar Aslesen, who heads the Norwegian Astronomical Society.

The meteor explodes probably around 30-35 km altitude and broke in several parts. Aslesen says it is likely that some of the meteor has fallen down to earth, because it was so big.

''It was the stronger that the full moon, so it may have been around a tonne before it entered the atmosphere. And maybe it was a few kilos when it came right down, but unfortunately fell enough down in the North Sea.''

            

Meteor fireball captured across Ontario sky

Dashcam footage and all-sky cameras caught an amazing long-lived fireball meteor early Friday. At around 6:45 am EDT, Friday, October 7, a particularly resilient piece of space rock entered Earth's atmosphere over Georgian Bay, and blazed a bright trail across the sky.

           

Peter Brown, a meteor scientist at the University of Western Ontario, found that the university's network of all-sky cameras had captured a spectacular view of this meteor as it passed overhead.

Long-lived (10 sec), bright fireball over Georgian Bay last night - captured on many of @westernu meteor cameras. @westernuScience #fireball pic.twitter.com/voCTeUO0ao

— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) October 7, 2016

Youtuber user DrClockSmasher also caught this one, as he was riding his motorcycle through northeast Metro Detroit.

            

Another all-sky camera, this one from the E.C. Carr Astronomical Observatory, located between the Blue Mountains and Beaver Valley, near Georgian Bay, captured the event as well.

Video from @RASCTC observatory right under path of last night's bright fireball @westernu @westernuScience #fireball #meteor pic.twitter.com/hhStLFgQYg

— Peter Brown (@pgbrown) October 7, 2016

Mysterios 'fire in the sky' captured over Louisiana

A light in the late night sky north of Dale Noel's home stopped him in his tracks last Sunday night.

''When I seen the light, it was like flying and the light was pulsing like it was getting brighter and brighter the further it was getting,'' he said.

He ran to tell his fiance he thought a plane's wing was on fire, but returned outside to an empty sky.

''We both looked up in the sky and we saw the same thing. It made the same pass, so we started recording it, '' he said, ''It was lightning up, lightning up, lightning up and then it blew up in the same spot the other one did. And then a third one came by.''
''We were just kind of freaking out, like what is this, what is this?'' Noel said.

Noel took the debate to his Facebook page where some friends suggested drones, others suggested flares. They also checked with the American Meteor Society who said it wasn't necesarilly a meteor, or fireball, but it could have been space debris. We checked with NASA, who said it may not have been either.

''The problem you run into is that it's too slow for a meteor and you don't get multiple pieces of space debris burning up in the same area in the same night,'' said Dr. Bill Cooke, lead of the NASA Meteoroid Environmental Office.

Dr. Cooke said there were no other sightings reported in the state that night with them, or with the military's Space Command, which monitors space debris.


            


Source: https://www.sott.net/article/329384-Mysterious-fire-in-the-sky-captured-on-video-over-Louisiana-Plasma-phenomenon

Mysterious light seen streaking across California sky, July 27, 2016

Southern California witnessed streaks of fire across the sky on Wednesday evening, July 27, 2016.

Youtube states: ''What appeared to be 2 burning bright lights amazed citizens of California, Utah, Nevada and Arizona on the night of July 27, 2016 @ 9:40 pm. The lights burned across the night sky for several seconds leaving an impressive ''stardust-like'' long trail behind it, and one witness says he heard a ''boom'' about 5 minutes after it had disappeared. This event looks eerily similar to an event that occured 24 years ago over the eastern US, which WAS a large meteor that fragmented and one of the fragments crashed into a parked car!''


                      
     
   

Asteroid explodes over Arizona, June 2, 2016

 

 For a few seconds early Thursday, night turned into day as an extremely bright fireball lit the pre-dawn sky over much of Arizona , blinding all-sky meteor cameras as far away as western New Mexico. 

Based on the latest data, a small asteroid estimated at 10 feet in diameter with a mass in the tens of tons and a kinetic energy of approximately half a kiloton - entered Earth's atmosphere above Arizona just before 4 a.m. local (MST) time. NASA estimates that the asteroid was moving at about 40,200 miles per hour (64,700 kilometers per hour).

''There are no reports of any damage or injuries - just a lot of light and few sonic booms. If  Doppler data is any indication, there are almost certainly meteorites scattered on the ground north of Tucson, '' said Bill Cooke in NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Astronomy expert Steve Kates said it's a very likely chance that it was a meteor bolide, meaning ''brighter than the sun''.

           
 

Source:

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/fireball-lights-pre-dawn-sky-over-arizona

http://www.12news.com/news/local/arizona/nasa-fireball-was-likely-10-foot-asteroid/228043718 

        

               

Mysterious bright fireball seen moving across skies above parts of Nevada, California, December 22, 2015

Dozens of people from Las Vegas to Northern California posted videos on social media Tuesday night of a bright light moving across the sky.

Some videos also apparently show what appears to be pieces of the object breaking up as it swoops across the sky. 

@FOX5Vegas Captured an amazing meteor in Las Vegas around 6pm tonight! Saw it breaking up as it fell to earth! pic.twitter.com/xK2ObyL5o9

— BA®®Y™ (@SteeleSoldier) December 23, 2015

The object was also seen flying across California.

@KTLA so this just happened in Ventura.... #ufo pic.twitter.com/hLT8dUVX1G

— Kolbe Gillette (@TheRealKolbabe) December 23, 2015

Not everyone was convinced the flying object was a meteor, however, with Twitter users speculating that it could have been a secret alien visit or military weaponry.

Missile in the Nevada desert? pic.twitter.com/Zh7XPeXkcr

— Jane Ross (@cjrorun) December 23, 2015

According to Sott.net website, local outlet KSNV reported that McArran airport confirmed the object was not an aircraft since it was too high in the sky.
Other than a meteor, Twitter users and experts speculated that the object could have been falling space debris.
Some on Twitter agreed, arguing it was moving too slowly to be a meteor.


            

Fireball in the sky over Stockholm, Sweden, 14the December 2015

Raw video of something in the sky over Stockholm, Sweden. Ball of fire? Meteor trail? Jet stream?

Video taken on 2015-12-14 in Stockholm, Sweden.

''Excuse the shakiness of the video, I was not expecting to see this ''fireball'' at all and was quite taken by surprise! Someone said that the object may have been part of the 'Geminids' meteor shower / Others have said that it burned too long and is likely a meteor fireball / Another user says it's a plane in the sun.''

           

Meteor fireball blazes through Chilean sky, August 11, 2015

This fireball was filmed in Antofagasta's sky, in Chile, on Tuesday 11th, 2015.

[ANOCHE] Meteorito visto desde el campamento Coposa en faenas mineras de Collahuasi al interior de #Iquique #UFO pic.twitter.com/J9fINXOdhu

— Cristian Nuñez Fica (@HombredeRadio) August 11, 2015

#T13 #AhoraNoticias @T13 #Meteorito Norte de Chile, sector Tirana - PozoalMonte pic.twitter.com/wkpdTcsOKU

— Pablo Yáñez (@MrYunque) August 11, 2015

Source: sott.net

UFO green or meteor in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 30, 2015

UFO green or meteor (first video)

UFO green or meteor (second video)

This bright object was recorded across the sky in Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 30, 2015.

            

A meteor exploded over Ireland with the force of an atomic bomb

Astronomy Ireland received hundreds of reports of phenomenon late last weekend.

A meteorite creates a streak of light over the north Yorkshire moors at Leaholm, England last Sunday. Astronomy Ireland are ''desperately'' seeking eye-witness accounts of a fireball that reportedly streaked across Irish skies late last weekend. (Photo: Steven Watt/Reuters)

Astronomers are on the hunt for any witnesses to a meteor that exploded over Northern Ireland with the force of an 'atomic bomb'.

According to the Irish Times, the fireball appeared in the night sky at around 10pm on Sunday 25 April - lightning huge swathes of both Northern Ireland and the north of England.

David Moore from Astronomy Ireland believes that the object was probably around the size of a car. He goes on to tell the paper that in his opinion, the resulting explosion probably produced the equivalent energy of a World War 2 atomic bomb.

''We are desperately seeking people to fill out the report form on Astronomy.ie. The sad fact is less than one in a hundred people in every single event like this ever fills in the form,''

''There has to be dozens, if not hundreds, of records of this fireball seen on Irish cameras on Sunday night, and to date we've only ever received one video report [which was from the 1999 event].''




           



Source: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/astronomers-seeking-witnesses-to-sunday-fireball-1.2191088
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/30/a-meteor-exploded-over-ireland-with-the-force-of-an-atomic-bomb_n_7178418.html?utm_hp_ref=canada&ir=Canada

Meteor fireball seen over Switzerland - March 15, 2015

On March 15, 2015 a weird looking green fireball was caught on dashcam flying over Switzerland. There are reports that a loud detonation was heard.





              
           

Extraterrestrial anomaly or satellite in the western skies, February 24, 2015

News lines and websites lite up as an unidentified flying objects was seen in the skies of Utah, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, California and Canada on February 24, 2015.

Could this be extraterrestrial in nature or possibly a dimensional anomaly such as a wormhole? Or is there a logical explanation? One thing is for sure, it's not a meteor.

Patrick Wiggins, NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador to Utah, said the object was a rocket body used in the lunch of Yaogan Weixing-26, a Chinese satellite, which was lunch in December 2014.

KSL-TV photographer Mark Wetzel captured amazing footage of the event as it passed over northern Utah.

This object breaks apart and can be seen raining down in the early morning hours (Feb 24) as many thought it was a meteor.