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(meteorobs) Fireball-1985
I thought before anymore time went by and my memory of the event becomes
more nebulous - I wanted to ask did anyone else in the NE U.S. see the
bolide I witnessed in what I believe was Sept. 85.
We are in Hampton, NH, and I was doing some minor repairs on our front
window. It was very late afternoon, maybe 1 or 2 hours hours before sunset.
I glanced up at the edge of the roof and a meteor passed right over the
house moving directly from east to west.
With the sky still blue, the sun in the west sky, this thing was burning a
bright white with a tail of white steam or smoke and intermittent flashings
of green from the fireball itself.
I watched it move into the western sky towards the town of Exeter and lost
it in my local horizon of trees. The trail was long-enduring, like a
segmented or broken vapor-trail left behind from an aircraft. There was no
noise or report of any kind. My first thought that a million people must
have seen it, too. I was astonished to find that there were no news reports
at all that evening about the fireball.
Bob Jackson
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