Meteor lights up night sky above Utah - Nov 2009
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Uploaded by logolou on Nov 18, 2009
A large ball of fire streaking across the night time skies just after midnight had many Utahn's wondering what they saw early Wednesday morning.
Dozens of calls came with people wondering if they saw a shooting star, others wondered if it was the end of the world, military testing, or even a UFO.
People from Mona to Spanish Fork from Ogden to Bountiful all calling in a very similar sighting More...
To many, it looked like a large fall of fire, lightning up the sky, some say like daylight, others reported a blue like light that lasted for about 30 seconds.
And many reported hearing a boom about 5 minutes later.
Utah's NASA and Solar System Ambassador Patrick Wiggins said that it was a meteor also known as a bolide.
From his observatory near Stansbury Park he says the break up of the meteor occured at about 240 to 250 degrees azimuth which puts it just north of southwest.
He also heard the sound of an explosion that would put the breakup of the bolide about 100 km in that direction placing it high above Granite Peak in the west desert.
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If you pause at exactly 1:02 it looks like a city on mars.
9 months ago 6
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Its obvious what is is, its an Alien fart.
1 year ago 4
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some sweet info here
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interesting video and very informative
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really informative and interesting
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love the video really good
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That would have scared the shit out of me.
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Wow... amazing!!!
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@mham83 its because when you see the light, chuck Norris hypnotizes you to forget about commenting about chuck norris
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@1993blabkmetal...... who just lays around in a cemetary????
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@shiftri alien shit?
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I was driving on highway 84 when it shot across the sky. Conveniently right above hill air force base. It scared me so bad I ran my car right into the shoulder of the road (80mph into sage brush... yes speeding) I honestly thought it was a nuclear explosion above the base.
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We live in Tooele and that thing shook our house when it exploded. Funny that it just happened to land somewhere around Dugway! How convenient!
utwitch1016 6 months ago
@utwitch1016 Why?,what's in Dugway?
logolou 6 months ago