Beautiful Footage of Perseid Meteor - Dallas Area

• When: August 10th, 2013
• Where: Gainseville (North Dallas)
• What: Possible meteor

A Gainseville resident was lucky enough to spot a meteor gliding - well, more like fading - over him. Check out the footage and read quotes from it below:

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"Appeared out of nowhere
I don't think it's a jet, contrail...
I believe it's an incoming meteor, possibly a comet.
It's not really moving.
Seems to be fading out..."

This is likely the product of the adored and fortunately, annual, Perseid Meteor Shower! It sounds like a shoe-in, though this does seem like a pretty dramatic entrance so early in the game... Here's a description of the shower I stumbled upon thanks to Reddit:

A description from EarthSky.com:

The Perseid meteor shower is perhaps the most beloved meteor shower of the year for the Northern Hemisphere. The shower builds gradually to a peak, often produces 50 to 100 meteors per hour in a dark sky at the peak, and, for us in the Northern Hemisphere, this shower comes when the weather is warm. The Perseids tend to strengthen in number as late night deepens into midnight, and typically produce the most meteors in the wee hours before dawn. They radiate from a point in the constellation Perseus the Hero, but, as with all meteor shower radiant points, you don’t need to know Perseus to watch the shower; instead, the meteors appear in all parts of the sky. They are typically fast and bright meteors. They frequently leave persistent trains. Every year, you can look for the Perseids around August 10-13. They combine with the Delta Aquarid shower (above) to produce the year’s most dazzling display of shooting stars. In 2013, the Perseid meteors will streak across the short summer nights – August 10-13 – from late night until dawn, with little to no interference from the waxing crescent moon. Plus the moon will be near the planet Saturn in the evening hours, giving a colorful prelude to late-night Perseid show. Best mornings to look: August 11, 12 and 13.