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Thirty-four late-night Carolinians reported a fireball streaking across the sky this week, mainly along the coast but as far inland as Matthews and Monroe.
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“Never seen anything like it,” a Monroe man wrote on the American Meteorological Society fireball reporting site. “It was bright blue and green, and it went through the air in a straight line downwards, but not straight down … Very bright through the sky.”
Stargazers reported seeing the fireball at 1:46 a.m. Monday, Aug. 10, according to the society
Andrew D. of Matthews said he saw the green to light green object while driving on busy East Independence Boulevard (U.S. 74), which travels into Matthews from Charlotte. The society doesn’t release the last names of people reporting strange objects in the sky.
Cara R. of Kiawah Island, S.C., sent video and a photo of the fireball to the society, saying it moved from up right to down left and had no sound.
Multiple colors reported on fireball
Brittany A. of Dunn also said the object was light green but that it moved from up left to down right.
Taquasha W. of Wilmington described its colors as blue, green, orange, yellow and red.
“Came down brightest light ever seen – right into ocean,” said Cliff M. of Georgetown, S.C.
“Took me by surprise and was traveling so fast,” Carson N. of Conway, S.C., reported about what he described as the light blue, silent fireball.
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David B. of Charleston, S.C., said he was in a parking lot when “the green light came from the southeast-ish, and I lost it behind a building … I didn’t see it burn up.”
Brecken C. of Hilton Head Island saw the fireball to his left as he drove east. He described it as “a bright, lime green fireball with a yellow tail, traveling north until it disappeared behind the tree line, when I saw a flash of yellow.”
Scott B. was on a covered patio in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., when “the sky first lit up with increasing intensity for 1-2 seconds before we saw the meteor.”
“It was beautiful to look at,” said Niobe M. of Wilimington.
“It was the longest, brightest and colorful fireball I ever seen!!!,” said Allah H., who didn’t list where she lives in South Carolina.
The fireball was “glowing green” with an “orange tail (and) white center and sparkles around like a New Year’s celebration,” she said.
Help report fireballs
The society encourages people to report anything they see that’s “bright and fast” in the sky and may look like a shooting star. “Report it: it may be a fireball,” society officials say.
Filing a report is important because it alerts the society “to potentially scientifically significant events that occur, and contributes to the general database of knowledge about meteors.”
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