Utah Meteor lights up early morning sky . 18th 11th 09.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A fast-moving meteor lit up the night skies over most of Utah just after midnight Wednesday. Moments later, the phones lit up at KSL as people across the state called to tell us what they saw and ask what it was.
Scientists are calling it a "remarkable midnight fireball." The source of all the excitement was basically a rock, falling from space.
In addition to KSL, witnesses to the meteor quickly began call 911.
"I'm currently driving, but I just saw a giant blue flash in the sky, and it came down into the city," a caller from Ogden said.
A caller in Bountiful told dispatchers, "It flashed from the west, and it lit up the whole freakin' neighborhood."
A Salt Lake City caller said, "Ma'am, I'm not kidding you. I am terrified."
Professor David Kieda is chair of the University of Utah's astronomy department. He said the energy of the meteor coming into Earth's atmosphere was so powerful it has to be measured in Terawatts.
"It's almost like the consumption of the United States all at once. It was a fraction of a second," Kieda said.
When a meteor enters the atmosphere, it gives off a lot of heat and light. Folks at the Clark Planetarium say this rock was big--between the size of a microwave and washer-dryer unit.
"I mean this thing lit up the sky, literally. It was like daylight." - Patrick Wiggins, NASA Solar Ambassador
At exactly 12:07, people from all over the western United States watched as the bolide meteor crashed into Earth's atmosphere. In some areas, the flash of light was so bright it caused light-sensor street lamps to shut off.
Clark Planetarium Director Seth Jarvis said the stony meteorite was probably traveling 80,000 miles an hour when it hit our atmosphere. He said it happened 100 miles up in the air; so despite the brightness, Utah was never in any danger.
"These collisions can do damage, but they are extremely rare; and literally once in a century do you observe something that's actually doing damage," he said.
Witness Andy Bailey said, "Oh, it lit up the whole sky, like almost brighter than the day. It was bright."
Don White was in Wyoming and told KSL Newsradio for a moment he suspected a nuclear strike. "With something that brilliant and that fast, it was like, whoa, did we just get hit or something? It would have been some bigger noise I guess if a nuclear device had gone off," he said.

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[swishersweets666]

who edited this damn vid?

[dumbbell33]

The good folks at KSL5 had a bit too much coffeee i would think mate :)

[LiMaUmZaXoR]

I think it was a Decepticon... O.O

[jahovawitness]

Isn't that a coincidence, ONCE every five years and yet it happened twice in three days,once in utah and then the far side of the world in south africa three days later.... maybe theres more to come :) ... cool!!

[laflare420]

it happende in maine like a week ago

[tigerjemm]

@Time4u2Believe i think the "ufo" sighting over Jerusalem and a similar one over utah aren't "aliens". it's the translated beings from Zion (the righteous city translated into heaven from the bible) coming to see if we're ready for their return. because think about it: Jerusalem- which speaks for itself, and Utah- the mormon capital

[nishblaze]

@joanmesa what rock is that?

[ickytips]

@Time4u2Believe

jesus fucking christ... just shut the fuck up.

[joanmesa]

@40KE IMAGINE THE 40 KMS ROCK THAT IS COMING RIGHT NOW!!

[40KE]

Fuck! that was only the size of a washing machine?!?!

[goocorleone5818]

koo

[CrimeLife13]

people are soooooo pussy now a days.. omg im soooo terrified

[TheFreedomly]

Uh! We're all the time exposed into the hazard this's one of the other risk, which everybody comeup with in the earth.

[jenniferyork1]

idk, this is weird. i thought our government has the technologies to track any moving objects or whatever that are flying or moving over our sky. hmmmm.. I guess this one is too fast, the professor looks horrify!!. It's " MAJESTY meteor" more like he's guessing.