Residents of US and Canada experienced dazzling fireball flashed through night sky | Watch

A dazzling fireball that flashed through night sky on October 12 astonished locals on southwest coast of Cana and rthwest coast of United States.

As of Friday, American Meteor Society website h received almost 200 eyewitness reports, Newsweek reported. Furrmore, numerous accounts have stated that spectacular incident occurred on October 12 just after 10:15 pm (local time). 

A Molalla, Oregon resident said, “I was watching TV inside and saw streak out of corner of my eye," and ded, “It lasted long eugh for me to turn and watch it before it exploded," Newsweek reported. While, a citizen in Seattle, Washington, commented, "Never seen anything like it." ditionally, witness claimed to have heard object emit a sound "like a sparkler" on Fourth of July as it swiftly travelled sky for only a few seconds. 

Meteor video captured in US and Cana  

In dition to this, several people who have security cameras or doorbell cameras in ir houses recorded incident on tape. y all depicted how sky was pitch-black and silent just before dazzling ball of light came out of where. object n makes a huge flash and n vanishes from view, leaving a small trail behind it. In two to three seconds, entire event took place. 

According to Newsweek report, when a rock hits Earth's atmosphere at high speeds, such as tens of thousands of miles per hour, where it encounters air resistance, fireballs are formed. This causes object to become so hot that it burns up frequently as it blazes across sky. 

How fireballs are formed?

According to Trevor Ireland, a professorial research fellow in School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Australia’s University of Queensland, fireballs as well as shooting stars are essentially same objects, except that fireballs are deeper into atmosphere. “Shooting stars are effectively initial friction in upper atmosphere as small objects size of grains of sand are slowed down by tenuous atmosphere,” he ded. Furr, Ireland ted that simple light trails that sweep sky like this effectively come to an end when grain burns out. 

Furrmore, expert said, “Larger objects—big grains of sand to pebbles—can survive upper atmosphere, but still burn up.” He ded that larger objects have potential to reach Earth furr. “You see m closer and can sort of see m burning up. se are fireballs," he explained.  

Ireland also described that se bigger things occasionally force a shockwave in front of m, causing a sonic boom and object's destruction. It is pertinent to mention that fireballs and shooting stars may appear to be uncommon events, but y are actually rar regular. 

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