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Originally Posted by erick
A nice fireball seems to come along fairly frequently somewhere in the world. I've only seen one that I recall. I doubt that you would be seeing the actual meteor - but the glow of gas around a bigger piece of rock would have a lot of shape and texture to it. Check on Youtube for fireball videos - they are not just a fine line of light. Eg:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S3WfNDD59Y |
That Meteor is known as the 'Peekskil Meteor' October 9th 1992. You can many other videos of the exact same event from other areas around the US here.
http://www.meteorites.com.au/films/
As well as some other wicked ones caught on film. There is also a 18 min doco about Sikhote-Alin event.