USA Meteor Illuminates the Night Sky

A streaking fireball briefly illuminated parts of the Utah sky to daylight-level conditions early on Wednesday, surveillance footage showed. The video from outside security cameras at the University of Utah's Milford observatory shows a blinding flash of light around 12:07 a.m. (0707 GMT), followed by clear images of the object streaking away. Although it's too early to say definitively how large the object was and how fast it was going, Seth Jarvis, the director of the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City estimated that it was about the size of an oven and was travelling at about 80 thousand mph (148 thousand kph). It broke through the Earth's atmosphere and was probably around 100 miles above the ground when it became visible, he said. It almost certainly broke up before it reached the ground, he said. visit ebrunews.com for more info and news!