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Report spotting a falling meteorite??

Last week I saw a brilliant ball of fire trailing a bluish greenish fire across the early night sky. It's difficult to say how far away it was, but it looked very close. I watched for six or seven seconds and it either disintegrated or went behind a mountain where i couldn't see it. It was moving more parallel to the earth's surface than I would have thought one would. I'm guessing it was bigger than a refrigerator but smaller than a car. I live in the mountains of east TN. Is this something that I could or should report and if so to whom?

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  • Kes
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    You might report it to your local newspaper, especially if you noted the near exact time and date and can explain the path from reference point to reference point. If others also saw it (and made similar reports) it may warrant an explanation by meteorologists. Incidentally weather men are meteorologists because they study things that fall from the sky.

  • 5 years ago

    Go to the American Meteor Society web page, click on the link to "report a fireball",

    http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo/report_intro

    Source(s): The American Meteor Society at http://www.amsmeteors.org/
  • 1 decade ago

    um...there are like jillions of astromers worldwide looking through the best telescopes money can buy. If it were significant, someone will take notice and report it.

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