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Meteoric Fireball Streaks the Sky Today

UFO trackers no doubt saw it but for most here the coastal cloud cover obscured what the National Weather Service clearly declared as a daytime meteor shower.

Southern California residents were among those who spotted an unusual daytime meteor that streaked through the morning sky Sunday, according to City News Service.

Reports came from as far as northern Nevada and from callers from Sacramento south to the San Diego-Orange County border, the National Weather Service reported.

Callers reported seeing a fireball in the daytime sky at about 8 a.m., apparently moving north to southwest.

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Much of the Los Angeles basin was under a layer of clouds at the time but the NWS office in Sacramento reported the fireball was spotted from Southern California.

In Nevada, the flash was accompanied by a sonic boom that was loud enough to set off the burglar alarms at a Walmart store. A Reno Gazette Journal newspaper editor said "it felt like a truck hit the house."  

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The meteor arrives as Earth is making its annual passage through one of several debris fields in space, which cause periods of meteor showers. Astronomers had predicted earlier that the "Lyrid" meteor shower would peak at sunrise Sunday, according to City News Service.

According to ufostalker.com, reported UFO sightings are down 30% over last year. But in Long Beach, it may surprise you, there have been numerous UFO reported sightings, including one Feb. 6, 2012 near Atlantic and South Street in which a "large cloaked Mothership, with surrounding cloud coverer [was] directly below the moon."

The same goes for the March 15, 2012 report of a Dec. 5th, 2011 alleged sighting farther East (you can click on the flying saucers or alient head icons yourself) in which the object "looked like the moon, then mercury-like rectangle portal discharged down from the moon shape etc."

On November 25, 2011 near West Anaheim Street and Magnolia there was reported a UFO sighting: "Burning object hovered while pieces fell with trails of sparks, burning out. Main object became dark like a small dim star, then moved slowly away."

 

--with City News Service reporting

 


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