Video of the meteorite seen over Texas Friday morning, from a NASA camera.

What is it with all these meteors lately! I saw a beautiful one that was pretty close about a month ago. Really bright green.

yea no....they can't even spell probably right

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wtf??????? Obvious disinformation campaign is obvious...

That's the line that stuck out for me....'a PROBABLE meteorite' which they are 'intereted in recovering.' Hmmmm...

NASA scientists are always flabbergasted and nonplussed. It's possible it could have been a pop tart flying at the speed of sound.

I'm not gonna lie to anyone about this...

Texas is a big place. How could a flash been seen from Houston to Dallas?
Whatever exploded was huge and very high up. To drive to Austin will take at least 4 hours and that isn't even half way,

Really...!?

Yes, I saw the OP vid. The sighting was supposedly at 6:46am and the sun had not quite risen yet. This video was on the news today in Dallas, was just posting it because it shows the flash much better than the op's. I am in TX but did not see it myself, so I cannot comment as to what it was.

Fox 4 News has this image:

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mmmmmmm not sure thats a legit photo of it...... that looks like a past meteor photo they used

And, just because no one seems to be all that observant with ALL of the facts, I feel I should reiterate that the video in the original post was taken in NEW MEXICO!!! Go figure that one out.

Last Edited by Tantalus on 12/07/2012 07:45 PM

Hey SC, (wink), what's your thoughts on this, I'm not sure how to read your clues. Think satellites collided?

Satellite shot down maybe?

The expert in one of the vids says that what was so unusual aboot this sincalled meteor was that many people were reportig different colors than the singular color that is asociated wih them.

I am sure you have all seen the green glow or orange glow of metoers footage in the night sky but this struck her as strange....

What we should concern ourselves with is this... A near earth asteroid just smashed into earthy and near a densly populated populated area, and this isnt the first time recently is it? Remember canada, and other parts of the US and the worldy?

The countless videos in the last five years alone show the uptick in clear terms...

This means we have been increasingly bombarded with celestial rocks and they din seem to be stopping anytime soon.... What is causing them to hit us so much?

I mean is the activity on the sun causing more objects to be hurled at earth via the magnetic plane?

Was thereba large body of water near the location? Just thinkng in case the asteroid isnt found as in the other cases too

No one knows where it fell yet. There are lakes all over TX.

Hello Isis : )

Yes,in 2009 there was a large Satellite collision of a Iridium Satellite and a Large Russian Sat.

The fallout continues.

[link to en.wikipedia.org] .

A nice pic. for you Isis [link to farm4.static.flickr.com] [link to oilismastery.blogspot.co.uk] Totally unrelated to the thread but thought you'd like the image

Maybe North Korea already launched and it failed. Maybe a Chinese or Russian satellite launched an emp????

why. probable is a a real word.
i don't know what planet your from.

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I don't think so....NASA..just throwing up something they
had in the archives to appease the sheep!!!

You're from.

: P

good find , ty

I saw the flash this morning while driving, lit up the whole freeway (green), I thought a streetlight was falling or exploded... looked up (had to lean out of my window to see it). There were thousands of people who saw the flash within eye-shot of me (rush hour, 10 lane stopped traffic on I-10). I was going east, btw... i saw it's short tail following close behind going west and was slightly north of my position, although almost vertically overhead... it dissipated very quickly (4 seconds or so). I'm sure that the people who saw the flash but didn't lean out of their windows within 6 seconds would have seen nothing in the sky.

The still shot in the fox link was exactly what I saw. The tail short, wispy and dissipated fast.

some of the images in the other videos were not going the right direction, had too long of a tail (not sure if news using stock footage).

I called the news radio station and reported it, they mentioned it 10 min later, their traffic guy saw it and reported it.

It came from space (I've seen these before). I'm not sure if it was meteor or vehicle or instrument or biological. But it came in through the atmosphere.

I was on the west side of houston going east. 6:42am

Wonder how many people in Texas are going to be outside during the night/early morning hours, looking to the skies . . .

I actually saw it myself on my way to work this morning on my way to work. It was VERY bright and I caught the initial bright ice-blue/greenish spark of light in my peripheral vision, then snapped my head over quickly as my reflexes are instant, and saw the orange/red tail.

It lasted for a few seconds and then it was gone...

It instantly appeared, and then was gone. I'm not sure what it was, but I believe that it may have been centralized over the panhandle area of Texas.

I was driving from Lubbock heading South, and it looked as though it was maybe a couple of hundred miles do East, almost EXACTLY where the Sun rises...

and?

put a sock in it you twit

from the link it OP:

"This morning at 6:43 AM Central Standard Time, eyewitnesses across Texas and adjacent states saw a very bright fireball streaking across the sky, moving roughly east to west. It was also recorded by a NASA meteor camera in Mayhill, New Mexico some five hundred miles to the West, which is very unusual and testifies to the brightness of the event.

This was not the re-entry of Kosmos 2251, which was destroyed in a collision with an Iridium satellite in February 2009; it is a meteor, most likely a fragment from the asteroid belt and not associated with the Geminid meteor shower.

Preliminary results indicate that there are meteorites from this meteor on the ground north of Houston, Texas – analysis is currently underway to refine the impact area. if pieces are recovered, it will be the 13th meteorite fall recorded in the state since 1909, and the first since Ash Creek, which fell in February of 2009."