I saw a bolide once about 1969 while out in a farm field observing with
my telescope. I just happened to look up and saw a bright light
approaching from directly overhead and growing brighter and brighter for
the couple of seconds it was visible. Then it went off like a flash
bulb at very high altitude that illuminated everything like daylight for
as far as I could see. One of the most spectacular sights I've ever
seen. Not quite as good as a total solar eclipse or a shuttle launch
but still an amazing sight. A also saw another one many years later
that was running almost horizontally across the sky. Extremely bright
and then broke up into huge fragments.
Chuck Norcutt
Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> Sounds impressive AG. Years ago I caught a pretty good exploding meteorite
> during the Leonids. That looked like a flash gun going off from a few
> hundred feet. A big one must be one hell of a sight.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I was driving west on I 80 when the sky lit up like daylight.
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