Large Meteor sighting

[azshooter]

I was working the evening shift while going to college.  One night after getting home I stopped the car in the drive way and got out to open the garage door.  As I stood a huge slow moving green fireball came across the sky leaving a trail of smoke behind it.  The fireball was like the one below seen over Pennsylvania in 1992.  The one I saw was 1994 and moving from North to South over Arizona.  It disappeared over the horizon.  I stood there for a good 10 min in awe just looking at the trail of smoke it left behind.  

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/meteors/fireball.mpg

I saw a documentary once that stated large ones like the one I saw most likely are a large meteorite bouncing off the atmosphere and returning to space.  If they were to hit the earth they can be as large as a small nuclear explosion when they hit.

If yo have ever seen anything like it chime in.

[Jack Crevalle]

Some friends and I were going to a concert ~91-92. We drove through a city in rush hour traffic to get there and when we did, found out that it'd been cancelled. We were standing in the parking lot discussing where to go next when this huge bolide crosses the sky. It looked like it was moving slower than the meteor in your video. It looked almost like a charcoal brickette that someone was blowing on, orange and orange "sparks" were being blown off behind it.

I thought that it would be all over the TV news but it was hardly mentioned. I've seen amatuer video of it taken elsewhere at a ball game. It seems it overflew several states.

[bullet maker]

I was working the evening shift while going to college.  One night after getting home I stopped the car in the drive way and got out to open the garage door.  As I stood a huge slow moving green fireball came across the sky leaving a trail of smoke behind it.  The fireball was like the one below seen over Pennsylvania in 1992.  The one I saw was 1994 and moving from North to South over Arizona.  It disappeared over the horizon.  I stood there for a good 10 min in awe just looking at the trail of smoke it left behind.  

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/meteors/fireball.mpg

I saw a documentary once that stated large ones like the one I saw most likely are a large meteorite bouncing off the atmosphere and returning to space.  If they were to hit the earth they can be as large as a small nuclear explosion when they hit.

If yo have ever seen anything like it chime in.

Yeah, I know what you mean, Azshooter
   Remember about 5 or so years, ago when Halebop came over?  :eek:  Whoa, what a sight. They said nobody would see it again for something like 3000 years. I stood on the back porch with my wife, and a pair of 10x50 binoculars, and watched it as it sailed overhead, about 21:00 hours. It was like standing for the first time and looking down in the Grand Canyon. You seem so insignificate. Like all your problems are nothing to compared to what you are seeing. Halebop, sailing across the cold night sky, was just thrilling. To ponder how many planets, and galaxyes, that it had zoomed past, and possibly on one of those planets, in one of those galaxyes, there was a living human being watching it exactly the same time your were. :eek:  Eons and eons, it travels through time and never stopping.  I sat there in total darkness watching it for like everynight that it came over, and I think we could see it for about two weeks. And each time it came over I was in awe, everytime, it came over I pondered in awe, and wished I could have hitched a ride and traveled with it.  The same Halebop that traveled across the skies during the dinosuores, time , now I`m a witness to the same Halebop. It really affected me, with great wonder of the great plains of all.
     :shock: Sorry didn`t mean to get deep, just it was wonderful, and it didn`t cost me a red cent to view one of the greatest events, in recent time.
    O.K. pass that jug my way again. :gulp:
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