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Mar 23, 2013

Video Of Last Night’s Meteor, Streaking Over Maryland

Just before 8 p.m. last night, people all over the East Coast reported seeing a meteor in the sky. And a woman in Maryland appeared to get footage of it on her security camera: Kim Fox, from Thurmont, Md., sent the video to WUSA9, which has another video of the apparent meteor. The American Meteor Society says it received hundreds of reports of the meteor, and it thinks it was a fireball:For those not…

Mar 30, 2009

Likely Fireball Causes 911 Calls

There’s a ton of stories this morning about some bright flashes of light and booming noises coming from the skies over eastern Virginia, parts of Maryland and North Carolina. The Richmond Times Dispatch reports that the National Weather Service’s Wakefield station’s phone was “ringing off the hook” last night after around 9:45 p.m., as residents frantically called in to report flashing, bright lights and in some places, an explosion-like sound. No immediate explanation came from…

 
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