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  • The earth's greatest and most awesome moments are not recorded in HD, damn it!

  • The music is mad irritating yo. :|

  • The music pisses me off

  • c'est quoi ce truc?

  • I dont think people understand this. The camera was probably over 500 miles away from the actuall fireball. This was PROBABLY traveling at about 3 miles per second. If you were to not be encased in any structure and traveled at this speed, 2 things would happen. You would die instantly, and let say you Survived some how. You would be traveling at about 10 times the speed of sound. the wind hitting the outside of your ear would be fast enough to go in. And then all the sound would catch up. Ouch.

  • its on wikipedia, great daytime fireball of 1972~!!

  • What the Juice?!

  • It's Goku. KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!­!

  • The outro was annoying as fuck, but great video! I liked the music. It makes you curious to know what those people were thinking this might be back then, like what if it were another Roswell? If only... heh

  • @nordahl154 lol, yeah, i wish youtube had a post-edition option. Thanks for the comment.

  • Gotta love how they purposely edited in creepy aura music. OooooooOooooh So scaaaary! Not.

  • it seems real but neither the flight path, trail, or flame fluxuates enough which makes it seem to be a solid metalic object with a glare and a jet trail

  • the music almost made me crap my pants.

  • thats exACTLY how its going to look when the end of the world comes just the big one instead of that little ball that will just do PUFF!!

  • The clouds make it look like God is spitting on the world! Look very closely at the origin of the hocker!

  • a relatively small random bit of space trash could be the end of us all. it makes you understand our weak and utterly unimportant position in the universe. how did we make it this long without the fsm hitting the reset button? damn humans are not really out of the dark ages yet.

  • i saw one of this fireballs in a road in mexico at last 4 years ago, and maybe never gonna see another again

  • i saw one of this fireballs in a road in mexico at least 4 years ago,unfortunatly i didnt have a camera to film it,i thing that i was very lucky to see it cause maybe never happen again in my life

  • Its one of the horseman! Wars backup!!!!

  • on wikipedia they say that it passed about 34 miles of the earths surface....thats a bunch of bull....Looks like it jsut shot through that cloud at the beginning

  • This was done on a home computer? In 1972? Most people didn't have $5K - 10K to throw down on a home computer back then. If you did, the graphics were so primitive that you couldn't possibly have done this with it.

  • I have seen things flying through the sky just like in this video . I have lived here on earth for a good wile , so you can believe me . We live on a little marble shaped planet out in the middle of space . All ya got to do is keep your eyes open . Look up more . I can see the moon during the day time . Its easier to see at night . So is everything else .Man I just love thoughs stars ! I understand that I am very special to be here . Is there anybody out there ? we are !

  • If this was a meteor than why is the brightness staying the same,  all the other meteors, the lights they give off go from dim to really-bright and this one stays the same all the way through, (Huh?)...

  • Fucking unreal man

  • ايش بة الكذوب

  • Meteors are scary - in the future, when every tin-pot dictator is armed with nuclear weapons, one of them will inevitably see one of these and think they are being attacked... and then we'll be all be fucked.

  • This footage was actually proven to be a fake.........special effects done on a home computer........look it up.

  • @Hunkola like the kind of special effects done on an pre-apple 1 computers?

  • @Hunkola FACEPALM! the footage is from 1972

  • @Hunkola so in 1972 a home computer and graphics package could do this could it? It was shot on film, not video and I remmeber seeing this in the '70's as the footage was shown at least once a year. If you had put links to your 'look it up' comment that would have been an idea, I suspect that the 'proof' is similar to the 'proof' that every UFO film on here is real, the moon landings were faked and the current favorite, there are Earth-sized spaceships orbiting the sun.

  • @Hunkola Couldn't be more wrong.

  • @Hunkola No, it wasn't.

  • @Hunkola LOL what kind of home computer in 1972? An abacus?

  • amazing, and a very good audio-choice!

    5stars...

  • cool

  • its goku

  • I saw similar thing long time ago when I was in school break

  • amazing this was caught on video in 1972

  • increible

  • I was hoping for John Holmes walking on screen...

  • Gonna suck when one of those things possibly hit the earth and kill us....

  • me pregunto si es real?

    porque es que se ve muy real.

    it looks real!

    es increible lo que la naturaleza tiene guardado para nosoros

  • watching the film 'JAWS' (1972) abt 10 years ago on tape i noticed the fireball in the backg of a scene. I cant tell u exact time in film as i jus realised that it was this that i saw...

  • yeah cause that's what I do everytime I watch a movie. I always stare into the fucking sky for the whole movie, I don't even pay attention to the plot or even what anyones saying. I just look right into the sky to look for fireballs.

    yeah, kay.

  • That seems very unlikely. More likely that was just an aircraft contrail.

  • Jaws came out in 1975.

  • watching the film 'JAWS' (1972) abt 10 years ago on tape i noticed the fireball in the backg of a scene. I cant tell u exact time in film as i jus realised that it was this that i saw...

  • No. It's not. That was just some random meteorite. JAWS was filmed on the East coast of the US, the fireball happened over the western part of the US and Canada.

  • I watched this come over the horizon directly overhead from Trident, Montana, its lowest point. Looked VERY large and flying low, but it was actually several miles up, spewing a LOT of flames and smoke, much more vivid than the video...

  • I saw it come over the horizon, directly overhead, while working at a cement plant in Trident, Montana. It looked very large and not very high up (that would have been its lowest point), but it was actually miles high - it was spewing a LOT of smoke and flame... far more vivid that this video

  • wow...wish i could see sumthin like you

  • it passed within 50 km from the earth damn

  • tan hermoso el universse tiene gusto a veces de hacer estallar adentro y apenas de decir hola. Tiene gusto a veces de permanecer un rato, y nos recuerda quién somos.

  • Man-made ... i guess an experimental plane or rocket ... It is within atmosphere cause it is dragginng a tail, and flying in a straight line ...

  • ur a moron.

  • its was a fire ball from "dragon ball z" it was trunks hahahaha

  • E.T. go home...

  • it was outside the atmosphere?

    idiotic spanish text =(

  • It's Portuguese and it did enter the atmosphere.

    Quote from Wikipedia: "t entered the Earth's atmosphere in daylight over Utah, United States (14:30 local time) and passed northwards leaving the atmosphere over Alberta, Canada. "

  • its not a meteor its me in super sonic form lol jus kidden but that'll be cool if we all can go super sonic or the other forms fly around save the world and whatnot but that could never happen and that suks :\

  • i heard that if that thing hit earth, it would have done some serious damage

  • i saw a show on this comet or what ever type of space rock this was and it said ppl all of that region thought the end of the world has come astronomers said that if it was a few more inches lower it probably would've hit

  • could meteors or commets like this be heard from the ground?

  • Not unless they exploded.

  • We woulda been screwed if that impacted the earth.

  • lol stfu fag

  • nah dude that thing looks too small

  • seriously, it was all that close... puts things in perspective a bit, huh?

  • August 10,1972

  • meteor?

  • It would of been equal to 2000 tones of tnt if it had come in at the right ange the tungusta was far more powerfull

  • That's very obviously the flying nimbus...

  • what month and day did this happen

  • 10.august afaik

  • the description says 10 de Agosto or 10th of August.....

  • August 20, 1972

  • Great video.

  • i wonder if deep purple's fireball album in 1972 gets its name from this...

  • Did it just desintigrate? Is there a crator?

  • it went back out of the atmosphere over alberta canada go to wikipedia

  • Thank god it only skimmed the atmosphere.

  • Had that hit earth it would have been a bigger blast then the Tungusta Event.

  • This is the Linda Baker footage from the Grand-Teton national park.

    Is there more footage or news clips from that time?

    For more details search wikipedia for

    The Great Daylight 1972 Fireball

    There is also footage of the same bolide from Alberta on youtube: /watch?v=wIv7wL9nWMQ

  • I was just searching this info. Thanks for your comment.

  • wikipedia is good info it tells you about all the near misses peace

  • i saw some blue meteor when i went camping at night it was way bright

  • Actually, it occured on Thursday Aug.10 1972. I was on Lower St.Mary Lake just outside Glacier National Park instructing watercraft skills to boy scouts. The thing passed straight overhead, an awesome sight. There was a weird noise and it truly was a ball of fire leaving a red trail though the movie shows it to be white. Wanna discuss this more? Write me at wd-at-skynet-dot-be.

  • i heard that was a meteor...its 100% real, and had at least mach 1.5. I think its too slow for a meteorite, maybe was a missile?

  • it was a meteor that passed through earth atmosphere quite amazin in it

  • That one is real for sure..these are the kind of videos that should be posted, intead of fake ass shit, like others'

  • it's Goku riding his flying nimbus.

  • HILARIOUS!

  • omg, thats very funny!! i didn't know how you say that in english!! i knew it as "nube voladora" haha

  • LOL!

  • what is this ??

  • I agree!! Why is there always someone who wants to brand everything "fake". I also saw this clip on a BBC documentary years and years ago and have been trying to track it down. Its most definatly real and thanks for posting it!!

  • 10-20 degrees more bent-down, and the guy with the camera could have died oO this looks VERY dangerous and scary, but amazing on the other hand :)

  • estuvo cerca........la proxima vez no tendremos tanta suerte

  • A very large meteor that glanced off of our atmosphere, akin to a stone skipping on water, as a very poor analogy.

  • HOLY SHIT! I can't believe all you guys saw that. I casted a Fire Ball from my level 37 Breton on Oblivion. That's crazy that it left Tamriel and landed in Canada.

  • Lol,

  • HUZZAH!

  • fake !!

  • It's actually real, I have a BBC documentary series with this footage included as an example of a near-miss.

    Amazing video! I've been looking for this everywhere!

  • not fake. ove canada 1972

  • Always someone online to say 'Fake' Geeeez

  • @jlebesis REAL!!!....I bet thats a first

  • @jlebesis Fake

  • LOL what the dino's saw?? What the dino's saw whas a gigantic meteor of 12 miles across and it hit the earth with a force 10 billion times more powerfull than the hiroshima atomic bom.. this meteor is a lightbulb

  • scary!!

  • Man... If u think about it. That could of been our death. The music makes it so creepy. Now we know what the dino's saw. Creepy

  • this is nothing compared to what the dino's saw..The ones that saw would have been 100x bigger and tbh they wouldn't of seen it! These meteorites are traveling at 10-15 miles per second. Thats hypersonic....Your not going to see it..

  • I've just been looking for this footage! I saw this on an educational video back when I was in school in 1987! Thanks man!

  • i saw a very similar incident in talca chile,but smaler it was 1997 an it was at nigth, the object desprends sparks of green and red colors i never undertand why the colors, maybe diferent minerals i dont know, the angle was very similar to the one on tis film i gess we was very luky to

  • Blame Al Quida, obviously a failed terrorist attack. That Bin Laiden's a clever fellow, he's paid off a little green man with a big sling shot!

  • this is prob a satellite test gone wrong

  • Why bother making a comment if you haven't got the faintest idea of what you are talking about?

  • Actually it was above the clouds.(about 12 miles up) The angle of viewing gives the appearance of going through the clouds. It was estimated if it had hit instead of "skipping" off the atmosphere the damage could have been enough to destroy a small city. We studied it in collge back in the

    70's. A definate close call.

  • I dont think anyone is suggesting it would wipe out mankind. Simply put, if this is heavy, Iron for example, & it hit NYC it would likely take out the city. To me that's significant enough. Keep in mind, hunks of this size are overlooked on a regular basis.

  • HS,

    I cried happy tears when I saw this video.

    I was nine years old and threw my shovel at it as it flew over my head. Thank you for posting it.

    ISN

    666

  • did you get it?

  • ayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay­.......aye!

  • :D :D

  • I remember some scientist saying that if this meteor had hit the earth it would have been cataclysmic, but it just bounced off our atmosphere and shoot back into space

  • Well that scientist must have been an idiot, you can tell the size of it from where it actually passes thru the cloud, only cataclysm is in that scientists head.

  • An easy calculation been conservative is:

    An asteroid can have different compositions (stony, Fe-Ni and Iron classified), and density vary between 3 - 8 g/cm3 (take average 5.5). GD1972 was some tens of meters long (take only 10m side) and cross 14.7 Km/s the atmosphere.

    M=5.5•10^6 Kg

    E=1/2•m•v^2=5.94•10^14 Joule

    1Kt=4.18•10^12 Joule

    => The minimum ENERGY of GREATDAYLIGHT 1972 FIREBALL could be ... 142 Kt or 0.14 Megatonnes (Little boy: 12,5 Kt) You have much to learn from scientist.

  • Well there you have it, end of mand kind my ass. I didnt have to go thru all the calculations to figure that out..simply observe the video.

  • cataclysm: a geological event that brings great changes of high significance such as the destruction :D

  • 'scientist' equations? give me a break. i'm a junior in HS taking physics and those are elementary...no need to be a smartass just because you can calculate kinetic energy. nobody asked for them.

  • In 72 we still thought that the largest craters on Earth were Volcanic. Had it hit, we would have had a RUDE awakening. WHEN it hits today it is much more likely to strike a populated area & thus be catastrophic to human life.

  • Watch the first frames of the video my friend its no bigger than a volkwagen.... check the first frames of the video you will see it went thru the cloud.

  • in other news it rained today...

  • haha thats super Saiyan Goku!

  • They said that it was the size of a Volkswagon Bug.

  • I hate this dumb music. There is nothing angelic or mysterious about a larger meteor flying into an atmosphere and burning before reaching the ground. It would be a cool video without the audio as it is... for audio,, thumbs down

  • i didnt burn before it came down cause it never came down you dumb ass

  • autobots was coming!!!!! that was megatron!!!!!!!AKA the leader of the decepticons!!!! omg!!!! i can believe this is happening!!!

  • 4km per sec less speed and it would have hit us. well..some of us. me not.

  • muy bueno, excellente filme de meteor en dia.

  • yea thats right spa4. dunno what sorta size it was though.

  • i've seen that clip on many a TV documentry about asteroids and stuff and it's not fake. Apparently the object skimmed the earths atmosphere at such a shallow angle it was deflected back out into space.

  • I'm from Alberta. I've seen tons of shooting stars. Creepy stuff too. Kinda looks like there is traffic up there some nights. Satelites that change direction or fly all weird. Yup.

  • So what? Something entering our atmosphere, what's new or special about that? It could be anything (well, maybe not an ice-cream).

  • nothing's new about it, but it still is nice to watch...since there are not many of such footages.

  • looks real to old to fake

  • i want this soundtrack its cool as

  • cool, ive been looking for this video. i saw a fireball that was much slower than this in 1999, went all the way across the sky. it was a once in a lifetime thing, wish i had video of it.

  • just kidding. every phenomenon picture on youtube is ususally accompanied by a comment 'ob fake'. So as a joke I accompanied this obviously authentic pic with the old standby 'ob fake'. Peace.

  • Peace to you too

  • definitely fake

  • What are your arguments of this sentence?

  • dentgt - Sorry to break it to you, but it's not up for debate.

  • my dad actually saw this in Eastern Iowa when he was 22 years old. he said it traveled from the east to west horizon in seconds!

  • lovely

  • if a big one hits it will be much different. moving at 20,000 miles per hour and being 20 miles across it will hit the earth within a second of reaching our atmosphere.

  • fab o!

  • superb!

  • Scary, if that object had not skipped off of the atmosphere it would have wiped out a large area at the impact site. If you ever wondered what it would look like just before a big one hits, this is it.

  • se ve cabronsisimo we! seguro fue un asteroide?... rayos...

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