Many Witness Texas Fireball

Photo from the American Meteor Society

• When: February 14, 2013 around 6 pm
• Where: Salado, Bryan, Carrolton, Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano
• What: Fireball, Blue, Red Streaks

Many witnesses saw a fireball shoot through the Texas sky yesterday evening, and they reported their sightings to the American Meteor Society.

The common theme was a flash of red, blue, and/or white light with a tail that seemed to trickle off into the night sky (there may have been debris from the event).

Is this a sign of more to come this afternoon, when Asteroid 2012 DA14 will swing by the Earth? (Yesterday, a meteor injured hundreds in Russia.)

PS, someone also witnessed a more mysterious UFO-like object on the same night in Carrolton, so they may be related!


You can read the full testimonies/descriptions on the AMS site, but here are some highlights:

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looked like a smoke trail then it appeared to get super bright, explode, then disappear quickly - JL from Bryan


This completely caught me off guard and was extremely exciting for me. I immediately identified what I saw as a "shooting star" but am familiar enough with meteorites to know that it likely left some fragments around the road I was driving on at the time I saw it. I wanted to go find them! - Kara from Saledo