You never know when it might be the right time to look up
Early one morning twenty-five years ago, I was delivering the Hutchinson News in Kansas. I happened to look toward the southern horizon and saw an amazing green meteor streak across the sky. It looked like it was just a few miles outside of town. And it lasted for a couple of seconds at most.
That night (pre-cell phones :-) I talked to my dad. And by chance, he had looked up at the same moment and seen the meteor as well. It also looked to him like it was pretty close by.
The next morning (no internet :-) we read the newspaper and learned that the meteor had actually entered the atmosphere over Texas, hundreds of miles away.
Someone in Canada was lucky to catch this meteor on video:
That night (pre-cell phones :-) I talked to my dad. And by chance, he had looked up at the same moment and seen the meteor as well. It also looked to him like it was pretty close by.
The next morning (no internet :-) we read the newspaper and learned that the meteor had actually entered the atmosphere over Texas, hundreds of miles away.
Someone in Canada was lucky to catch this meteor on video:
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posted by michael at 4:29 PM
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Michael,
I'm glad you remember this event, because I have thoght about many times since it happened. Phil Considine was with me that morning when we were on our way to work. When we saw the colorful light show, we both thought we had seen an airplane go down near the Hutch airport. After we got to work, we phoned the Hutch airport to see if they had any reports of a plane going down. Nothing. We convinced our boss we weren't nuts (??) and proceeded to hop in the company truck and spend the next hour and a half driving the country roads around the airport in search of a downed aircraft. We finally gave up and like you say, discovered the next day what the phenom actually was. Everything about life is wonderful, but this was one of those rare jewels that comes back to you over and over and makes your day so much better.
dad
I saw some fireballs streak across a partly cloudy night sky in Vancouver about a decade ago, backlighting the clouds from above. Then they fell behind the north shore mountains, silhouetting them.
It was a pretty amazing sight.
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