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What Was the Strange ‘Fireball’ That Lit Up the Texas Sky Last Night?

Texas to Kansas Saw Meteor Streak Across Night Sky

Sky watchers from Waco, Texas, all the way to Oklahoma City saw an unexpected meteor streak across last night’s sky.

Watch the ABC News report with footage of the meteor making its way slowly across the screen:

KIII TV reports that the Federal Aviation Commission has confirmed it was in fact a meteor.

The footage was captured from a camera on a police vehicle but here’s the question of the day: Was the minivan in front of the cop car pulled over and did they still get a ticket?

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  • eagledown
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:12pm

    What was that strange fireball streaking across the night sky?…. uh. a fireball. happens about 10,000 times a year. You guys who saw it, go get your metal detector and track er down, worth more than gold; even more so since China is buying all of it.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:45pm

      um… meteors are not that slow…

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    • Mr.Fitnah
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:16pm

      It may have been a liberal meteor .

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    • zman173rd
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:31pm

      Man I’m think that guy in the pulled over jeep or whatever… He’s the one to watch. How the heck did he make a star fall from the sky to throw the officer off his game? I heard the officer let him go, called the Fastrunner guys and well, you know where I’m going. Blah Blah, just like the story. Shouldn‘t this be linked to Michelle’s underwaer purchases? It could have happened at the same EXACT TIME?!?!?! Conspiracy?? You betcha!!

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    • Weiners Wiener
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:02pm

      JB Kibs — they are when they’re moving away from you. Or more accurately, they appear to be. And that meteorite (the proper term) is definately moving away from the camera, not just traveling left to right.

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    • budzy1911
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:24am

      Wiener – a meteor is anything that enters the Earth’s atmospher, a meteorite is anything that has landed.

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    • TROONORTH
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:04pm

      Meteors have tails as thier substance burns off from frictional heat. This one didn’t.

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 3:45pm

      @TROONORTH

      True.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:35pm

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      Well, it couldn’t be Gov. Perry going down in flames,
      that was last month.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:40pm

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      “Federal Aviation Commission has confirmed it was in fact a meteor.”
      That proves it.
      It was NOT a meteor.

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  • Patrick Henry II
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:02pm

    It was Farakaan’s Mother Ship coming for him.

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  • lcallday
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:51pm

    It was the 603rd, and last, Chevy Volt that was sold in January.

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  • suz
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:50pm

    a drone.

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  • elihu
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:48pm

    That was a meteor “shower”?! Two meteors? ooooookkkk…

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  • BonnieBlueFlag
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:43pm

    My husband and I both saw it and it was clearly a large meteor which glowed bright green in the front and had an orange tail. I have never seen a “shooting star” inside the well-lit San Antonio city limits before, much less one this bright.

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    • phil1765
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:29am

      Everyone in the outfield at my ballgame saw it, they were kind of freaked out by it. I thought they all drank too much before the game.

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  • cuinsong
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:38pm

    If you believe that was a meteor I have some beach front property to sell you in Nevada! Meteor’s that big would have a fire trail behind it. even at that speed? This was something else! Looks like “The End Times”
    http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10381143

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  • Chris.underhill
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:29pm

    at this exact time around 8:25 at tinker air base there was 4 C4′s that took off.I live aprox 1.5 miles away from the air base. All of them took off in a row. In fact is was so strange i called my friend. So he could here them. Not long after that is when i seen the streak and then a con trail after it. They may say its a meteor But i am not buying it.
    Why is it they seen the comet coming weeks in advanced. seen the huge meteor a few months ago in advanced. Yet no one seen this one hmm interesting. and i as well herd a sonic boom.

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  • IlovemyAkita
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:13pm

    I heard the sonic boom in Dallas Texas. When I was a kid we would wait for the sonic boom after an airplane flew over:)

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:58am

      We used to hear it when the shuttle would re-enter, shook all the windows in the house!

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  • V-Forge
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:49pm

    hmm. moving that slow it might have been a close graze. A sonic boom sounds like it must have been a big one. most shooting stars simply streak by but this one was big, heavy and still far enough away to seem to be moving slow. Guess they can’t detect them all huh?

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    • MellonCrib
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:37pm

      I saw one in broad daylight. Huge, seemingly slow and left a huge trail of black and gray smoke behind it until it skipped back into space. Took my breath away. That was in 1974 and I can still remember evey detail. Awesome.

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  • sillyfreshness
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:45pm

    It was swamp gas let off by a lighthouse in Florida. Then a flock of birds in Texas got startled by the lighthouse in Florida and flew over the road in what appeared to be a meteor. Those are the kinds of explanations they usually give.

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  • TyrannyNoMore
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:39pm

    Meanwhile, somewhere on a Texas cattle ranch, a man singed and blackened from head to toe, stands at the business end of a very surprised cow, lighter in hand.

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  • Watchyer6
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:35pm

    It was something that came from the region of Uranus.

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  • TyrannyNoMore
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:33pm

    It was the Russian Mars probe (wink wink) ,that disappeared.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:12pm

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    My Bad Ya’ll, I ate some bad Boudin last night…………

    The wife is still not speaking & the dog keeps growling at me……….

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  • garyM
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:06pm

    It was Beck shooting fireworks after Mitt called him and told him The Donald was endorsing him today!

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  • garyM
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:04pm

    Imagine that, right after Beck moved his studio down there!

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    • bikerr
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:48pm

      Beck this,Beck that. My goodness you are absorbed,Get help!

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  • The next to last american president
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:02pm

    God is doing a dry run! He had about enough of the Obamantion!

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  • tea-sack
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:57pm

    It was the lord dropping one of his pellets.

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    • Kaoscontrol
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:20pm

      And the Lord spake saying: “Behold my pellet TEA-SACK…He be-eth a turd of biblical proportions!”

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    • TyrannyNoMore
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:47pm

      Caos control……I can’t stop laughing !!! oh man that was funny….Thanks !

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  • Stephers
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:56pm

    My brother thought it was someone shooting off fireworks. He glanced up in time to see it fly over the house, and ran around the house to check on the cars.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:56pm

    My husband and another man were coming home from work early in the morning once and this big huge rock looking thing was going across the sky, they stopped their vehicles and got out to watch it, but it was moving slower than that.. My husband said, did you see what I just saw and the guy said yes he had.. But never a sound out of anyone on it or what it was?? We watched the news for days hoping someone would say somethig??

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  • HKS
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:53pm

    The boss dropped by looking for Obama, and he was pissed.

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  • momrules
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:49pm

    Oh, I wish I had seen that. I live so far from city lights now and when the weather is good I love to sit outside and watch the night sky.
    God’s world by moon and star light is beautiful.

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  • 912er
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:45pm

    I think it was Obama’s approval ratings… OMG! 2012

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  • Seagal45
    Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:41pm

    Cool that they caught it on video.

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