Hi Jeff and List,
Jeff, thanks very much for making these movies available for list (and non
list) members. Your video archives and Mark's text archives complement each
other very nicely.
I witnessed my first fireball a few days ago, on 12/22/05. I left work
early that day because I was sick. I was driving home about 4:00 p.m. It
was very sunny with only a few clouds. I happend to be approaching a bridge
over a river and about a mile of marshland and I saw it traveling from
roughly east to west, at a very steep angle. It was breaking up and
disentegrating and looked a lot like the peekskill videos on Jeff's site.
This was in broad daylight! It was amazing. After years of night-time
astronomical observations, during which I have seen many sporadic
meteorites, this was amazing. The illusion of closeness was very real. It
seemed as though I could have driven over the bridge and into the marsh
(with subsequent explanations to my wife) and there a meteorite would be -
right in the middle of the marsh!
I will never forget it. I hope to see one again.
-Walter Branch
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