I am not confirming anything, just sharing historical information. Below is a good site for reporting & tracking these flaming, hissing, exploding, multi colored objects. Over 200 reports logged in multiple states on the object Jed mentioned
http://www.amsmeteors.org/ On Saturday, March 23, 2013, James Bowery wrote: > Looks like confirmation bias to me. What is needed is an objective metric > upon which statistics can be gathered. The 2 extreme events of last month, > occurring within 16 hours, are the only events that were qualitatively > differentiable from the normal process of near earth material. > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:16 AM, ChemE Stewart > <cheme...@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'cheme...@gmail.com');> > > wrote: > >> Here's a good historical article on 1860 "year of meteors" painting by >> Walt Whitman. >> >> >> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/written-in-the-skies-the-truth-behind-year-of-meteors-1990008.html >> >> 1859 was the Carrington Event solar storm >> >> The sun has been relatively quiet so far this year for a solar max. >> >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/science/space/on-the-watch-for-a-solar-storm.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 >> >> Stewart >> >> >> >> >> On Saturday, March 23, 2013, Jed Rothwell wrote: >> >>> See: >>> >>> >>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/03/22/dramatic-meteor-streaks-through-evening-sky/ >>> >> >
