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Updated · KING5.com · May 5
Second fireball crosses Washington skies early Tuesday
Updated
Updated · KING5.com · May 5

Second fireball crosses Washington skies early Tuesday

6 articles · Updated · KING5.com · May 5
  • Street cameras at the Washington State Capitol Campus in Olympia captured the meteor around 12:15 a.m., with witness reports to the American Meteor Society beginning about 11:30 p.m.
  • Video showed a bright green flash with a glowing orange tail, while one witness described an initial yellow streak followed by a white terminal flash before it vanished.
  • It was the second fireball seen in western Washington in about a week; NASA says such meteors are space rocks burning up in Earth's atmosphere, with especially bright ones called fireballs.
If meteorites are rewriting Earth's origin story, what will these new fireballs reveal?
With fireballs increasing globally, is Earth entering a more hazardous path through space?