"I delivered the newspaper at night for 4 years and never saw this before" - West Texas

• When: Around February 14, 2013
• Where: somewhere in West Texas
• What: Clusters of "meteorite" like objects, appearing and disappearing

Here's somewhat of an oldie, but a goodie. I try to keep sightings on the site as fresh as possible, but with the hail storm that hit last night, I thought this one was worth posting.

Someone traveling through West Texas during a hail storm, shortly after the meteor impact in Russia, witnessed numerous balls of light in the sky - similar to shooting stars - but they kept disappearing and then reappearing again, as if they were burning up constantly. Could this be a product of the hail storm - most obviously, hail? We got a hail storm last night, and those little balls of ice can look pretty weird at a distance.

Then again, people have been seeing all kinds of "shooting stars" that aren't quite shooting stars - most recently in Buffalo. It's a noticeable trend that I can't quite pin down.

From the forum GodLikeProductions.com, by user name Son of PC:

A couple of weeks ago, just after the Russian meteor, I was traveling in west Texas near the New Mexico border.

A pretty nice hail storm broke out. As I was in the middle of nowhere I had to keep driving. I looked up and could see little balls of light in the sky, like some meteorites were burning up.

You could not see the trail, just a little round blob of light in the sky. Appear then fade away and more appears.

I delivered the newspaper at night for 4 years once and never saw this before.

Looked like tiny meteorites flaring up in the clouds and burning out.