Meteor streaks through Boston sky
By adamg on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 8:24pm
At 7:54 p.m., Matt Karolian tweeted:
Did anyone in #boston just see whatever the heck that was streaking through the sky?
Reports began flooding in not long after: A flash in the sky; Karolian reports it was "green and heading from north to south."
At 8:17 p.m., the Weather Channel reported:
Twitter search reveals meteor sighted [at least] as far south as Richmond, VA and as far north as Boston, MA.
Not long after, people were bemoaning our dashcam gap with the Russians.
You see it?
UPDATE, 1 a.m.: A.P. Blake reports: "JUST SAW A METEOR TO THE NORTH! NO JOKE! HOLY CRAP! Two meteors in one night! This one didn't seem very big though."
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Wife, kiddo, and I were
Wife, kiddo, and I were driving in Burlington back to Cambridge on Lowell Street when we saw the green fireball. It was pretty incredible - don't see anything move that fast on a typical day.
Relieved to know it didn't have anything to do with Hanscom!
Yep!
Saw it leaving the Burlington Mall around 7:55 this evening.
My 8 year old saw it too.
Shooting star in North Quincy
Around 9:45pm.
Not sure if its related but this guy was bigger than Venus looks shooting down toward western horizon and gone as quick as it caught the eye.
Meteor
Saw it in hopedale 7:50 pm
Boston Meteah
Twitter feed.
ahem..
...I believe the proper pronunciation is "meaty-YUH".
I wish I saw it
I wish I saw it
Maps
One showing where people saw it, the other showing a possible trajectory.