A bright green meteor streaked over Wisconsin - and the video is jaw-dropping
Flash...boom.
It took just seconds for a bright green fireball - and apparent meteor - to streak across the dark sky over Wisconsin at about 1:31 am Monday morning. But thanks to the magic (and paranoia) of our digital age, there's tons of security and dash-cam video of the event, and it's already all over the internet.
Here's a shot from Plover, Wisconsin, shared by the local National Weather Service (NWS) station on Twitter:
Here's the view from the University of Wisconsin campus:
Here's another dash-cam shot:
Here's the view from a police car:
NWS Milwaukee staff also shared a radar image showing what they believe is the meteor over Lake Michigan:
If any of the space-rock reached the surface, the lake is likely where it ended up. Though the flash looks low to the ground in some of those clips, that's a bit misleading; it was high enough to see from all the way in Illinois:
This video from the American Meteor Society shows its estimated path, and suggests it was visible from Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indian, Ohio, Indiana, New York, Ontario, Kentucky, Iowa and Minnesota:
AWESOME video of early AM #meteor! This video is from Plover, WI. #swiwx #wiwx #mnwx #iawx #miwx pic.twitter.com/Z1sgxzWZ1u
- NWS Milwaukee (@NWSMKX) February 6, 2017
Last night's Midwest #Meteor #Fireball over Lake Michigan as seen from the University of Wisconsin campus. pic.twitter.com/Ho2hOsquhX
- Brad Panovich (@wxbrad) February 6, 2017
Video of Meteor near Milwaukee Wisconsin courtesy of Marcella Canfora. #wiwx #meteor #wisconsin pic.twitter.com/FJZm3V87Su
- Tom Purdy (@TomPurdyWI) February 6, 2017
One of our officers caught this on their squad camera at about 1:30 AM today. The meteor lit up the sky and then came into view. pic.twitter.com/rRQazjC9Ro
- Glendale WI Police (@GlendaleWiPD) February 6, 2017
Our midnight crew saw the flash from the meteor early this morning. Checking back at our radar images, we saw this! #swiwx #wiwx pic.twitter.com/KMdsBW7HIc
- NWS Milwaukee (@NWSMKX) February 6, 2017
Check out this INCREDIBLE video of the #meteor this morning as viewed from a Lisle, IL police car dash cam! Thanks to Lisle PD for sharing! pic.twitter.com/uYELKkBxRO
- NWS Chicago (@NWSChicago) February 6, 2017
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