Meteor Sighting over midwest.

[biggestmexi]

Any one see it?

I did, i wasn't sure what it was at the time and it was a complete fluke that I did.

It light the sky up like lighting and looked like a sparkling bottle rocket(but a bit bigger).

Amazing. My first one.


http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-meteor-sighting-nightsky-apr15,0,6302174.story

[brettmojo]

Yeah... TELL US what it was... Fucking aliens man.

[Jughead]

I watched the video earlier looked pretty cool

[Willmore]

Sounds like a lesser version of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

[Judge Smails]

Yeah... TELL US what it was... Fucking aliens man.

There are no aliens. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. It was only swamp gas from a weather balloon, trapped in a thermal pocket that reflected the light from Venus.

[Willmore]

There are no aliens. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. It was only swamp gas from a weather balloon, trapped in a thermal pocket that reflected the light from Venus.

Good. I was getting ready to form my Alien Resistance Militia.

[Barnaby Jones]

The new Dome of the Rock shall be in Iowa! All praise be to Allah!

[Furtherman]

Sounds like a lesser version of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

If it truly was a lesser version than Tunguska, there would have been a lot of devastation and death.

[Hottub]

Dosn't it depend how much less?

[StanUpshaw]

The American Meteor Society keeps a record of every fireball sighting they get reported. Prior to this one, they had 193 different incidents in 2010 (http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/fireball_log2010.htm), but on this one they had around 150 people report in.

[Willmore]

If it truly was a lesser version than Tunguska, there would have been a lot of devastation and death.

Depends.

Primarily, on what the hell the Tunguska event was.

If it was just a meteor, then a similar event with a smaller meteor, at a higher altitude, could produce similar effect, but not cause much damage on the ground. Plus, it's not like there's a lot of stuff in Iowa to damage.

[PapaBear]

Weird. My son (who is here on leave from Iraq) just asked me about this. He said that over there, any information online about this fireball is blocked and rated "G-14 Classified". I just read some of the reports, and though most of it centered around it being a meteor, there was mention of the possibility of it being a falling satellite. My guess is, if it was a satellite, they block info about it from being accessed by military computers.