Last night April 14 a fireball streaked across the sky in Milwaukee Wisconsin that could be seen in six surrounding states. I’ve received reports about the sighting from Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio so I figured I’d give a little insight. Between January and now, meteor shower activity is very minimal and right now [...]
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Texas Fireball Metallic But Not Man-Made
It has been concluded that the recent fireball that was observed over Texas was not a piece of the recent collision of two satellites orbiting Earth. A rare occurrence, however the object was simply a natural meteor, also known as a fireball. Most meteors tend to be made of non-metallic minerals that break apart easily [...]
Fireball – Not Part of a Meteor Shower
It is not a meteor shower? There is little major meteor shower activity until April, but recently over daytime skies in Texas (from Austin, to Houston and as far north as Plano) a fireball was seen plummeting toward Earth. It has yet to be determined if it was debris from a recent satellite collision between [...]
