Have you heard reports of meteorites being spotted over Richmond VA, Boston MA and Washington DC?

This guy on youtube just posted a video about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulS7WLHXVsk

Wow here is one spotted in Britain.

Hundreds of Britons have reported seeing what has been described as a meteor, a fireball and burning space junk in the night sky, prompting a flurry of amazed tweets and calls to 999.


People across northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland reported seeing a meteor shoot across the night sky and break into pieces on Friday night, and took to Twitter to post photos and videos.

Many were confused as to what they were seeing, reporting sightings of simple a large ‘fireball’.

The Kielder Observatory reported seeing a ‘huge fireball’ travelling south over Northumberland at 9:41pm.

It wrote on Twitter: ‘Of 30 years observing the sky, fireball best thing I have ever seen period.’

There was some suggestion that the bright ball of light was in fact not a meteorite but space junk which burned up as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere.

Jodrell Bank Observatory tweeted: ‘No real consensus on whether last night’s spectacular fireball was a space rock burning up or space junk (bit of spacecraft).’

Some stargazers were so perturbed by the mysterious object in the sky that they made calls to 999 and the coastguard worried that it was a plane crashing.

A spokesman for Forth Coastguard said: ‘From talking to other stations and to the RAF it’s almost certainly meteorite activity.

‘Calls came in from all over the place, thick and fast. We’ve had people report possible plane crashes, and others the weirdest fireworks they’ve ever seen.

‘Folk just haven’t known how to describe what they’ve seen. It’s quite extraordinary.’

http://metro.co.uk/2012/09/22/fireball-like-meteor-spotted-in-night-sky-across-uk-582553/

Possible meteor spotted in night sky
Sightings reported from Boston to Washington D.C.

Updated: Friday, 22 Mar 2013, 9:26 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 22 Mar 2013, 9:16 PM EDT

Elysia Rodriguez
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Dozens of viewers reported seeing a bright flash of light in the sky around 8 p.m. on Friday.

The American Meteor Society is currently looking into the possibility it was a fireball, which is a large meteor. Although not rare, it’s often a once in a lifetime chance someone will see one.

People saw the streak of light across the Northeast from Western Mass. to Washington D.C. Eileen Claffey snapped this pic just west of Worcester in West Brookfield.

On its website , the American Meteor Society received more than 300 reports of a fireball in the northeast, and it was all the talk on social media.


http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/local/hampden/possible-meteor-spotted-in-night-sky?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter