Meteor over Central Texas this am?

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Texoz

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Didn't see it myself, but friends saw it between 10:50am and 11am. Said it was quite spectacular, various colors, flames, and lasted a few seconds. Was headed SE to NW.

I figure with the Austin marathon going on others would have seen it as well??
 
I saw something here in Corpus last week... really cool. Huge, long light with a blue aura around the tip and tail... I looked around to see if I was the only person who saw it, but nobody was around me...
 
I saw it. we were on the way to the grocery store. We were sitting at a red light on guadalupe and 38th and in the north sky a fire ball appeared and lasted a few seconds. It didn't last long. It looked shiny. I thought it might have been space junk because it looked metallic. My girlfriend said it looked like a piece of a plane, but because of the speed and the flaming, i figured it had to be from higher up.
 
kxan.com reporting that the "Sightings of the fire ball have come from Caldwell, Llano County, Round Rock, Spicewood, Georgetown, Cedar Park and all areas of Austin. KXAN has contacted law enforcement in each area, but none have been able to confirm the origin of the ball of fire which reportedly had a trail of smoke following it."

Also...."There was some speculation that the debris could have come from the collision of Satellite's that occurred earlier this week. On the contrary, Austin Planetarium Executive Director, Torvald Hessel, strongly denies the thought that the fireball was debris from the satellite wreckage."


Fiery Ball
 
link with video from news8 austin

someone was taping the marathon and got the debris/meteor/ufo in the background. just a disclaimer: by using the term UFO i literally mean "unidentified flying object." i don't want anybody asking me if i thought i saw aliens or something.

link with video
 
STRATCOM now says it wasn't part of the satellite.The Link

Looks like it may have been a meteor/meteorite. Other articles have people saying they may never know for sure if it was manmade or natural.
 
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I saw it from Dallas. At the time, I figured there was no point in telling anybody b/c I felt nobody would believe me. But I just saw the video on that link and that is exactly what I saw. Timing lines up, too.

Funny thing is that I was facing the other way (pushing my daughter on a swing) and just happen to look off to my left right at the moment it happened. It was highly improbably that I would be facing toward the meteor at that exact time.

It reminds me of the time I spotted a vulture in Dallas and everyone thought I was crazy. It later came out that a vulture just escaped from the Dallas Zoo.
 
Was the "vulture" that escaped in the '70's? Because a California condor escaped and flew over the Texas OU game one year, and thousands of people saw it.
Looks like this was a meteor, and lots of people saw it from many locations.
 
Funny how the government tells us how they are always monitoring asteroids, etc., and would know in the event that we were in danger of being struck by one (at least on some Earth devastating level), but they absolutely no clue what this was, even though it was big enough to have been seen from Tennessee to Texas.
 
I don't think it has to be very big to make a spectacular light show. The asteroids tracked by the government are big enough to cause serious, if not catastrophic damage when hitting the earth.
 
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