What was the big blue streak in the sky? Did anyone in SC see it?

Question

It was cloudy tonight when I was on the way home. I just happened to be looking at the sky when I saw a big blue/greenish ball streak right over the car. It only lasted for about 1 and a half seconds and dissapeared- not over the horizon, it just looked like the light was extinguished. It looked like it was right over the clouds- really close. I know there's supposed to be a meteor shower tonight but what I saw doesn't look like any picture of a meteor I've ever seen.
Did anyone else see it? (I live in Lexington, SC) Does anyone know what it could be?

Answer 1

The Geminids (said meteor shower) peaked last night but viewing some is still plossible. It's very often very hard to judge distance in the night sky. Also, meteors often don't look like the traditional pictures. Photos often don't show the ones with vapour trails behind them, or those that explode, or those that due to explosive jetisoning of smaller pieces, seem to spontaneously change direction.

Answer 2

There's a meteor shower going on right now so I'd assume you saw a meteor burning up in the sky. What you describe sounds pretty much like a meteor. Meteors look like streaks of color and last only a second or two.

Answer 3

Probably a Geminid from the Gemini meteor shower. Just a chunck of rock hitting the atmosphere at high speed. I saw several last night on my drive home in upstate SC. The big ones - fireballs - can break up when they hit, or even seem to move around a bit randomly as they burn up - and even leave smoke trails. Pretty cool, huh? Sounds like you saw a good one.

Answer 4

It's called a bolide. Pretty cool that you got to see one. It is a meteor, a relatively big one (the other meteors from the shower are leftover bits from a comet) that was burning as it passed into the earth's atmosphere. Sometimes they bounce off of the atmosphere and back out into space, but sometimes they land, and sometimes even explode in the sky. I saw one explode a few years ago--very cool!

Bolides are pretty common, but a lot of times they come during the day and are hard to see. Kind of scary to think about some bit of rock hurtling through the atmosphere that fast!

Answer 5

It was a meteor

The color of many Leonids is like the color of our sodium discharge lamps. For the same reason: meteoroids contain traces of sodium. The color of a meteor is an indication of its composition and the excitation temperature: sodium atoms give an orange-yellow light, iron atoms a yellow light, magnesium a blue-green light, calcium atoms may add a violet hue, while silicon atoms and molecules of atmospheric nitrogen give a red light.

Answer 6

sure at 7.10am a huge flash accompanied by ability of a path which lasted some seconds, i concept it became the German satellite tv for pc re-getting into yet there as been no point out on the information, little bit of a puzzle somewhat. i'm interior the North East of england

Answer 7

My cousin works for Homeland security out of D.C., and he has heard a lot of this. They are trying to keep it under wraps. It is a highly secretive new impulse engine jet. It is ultra maneuverable, and can move almost 100% vertically, so can "disappear" straight into a cloud for ex. Dont tell anyone. These are nuclear powered so dont touch

Answer 8

I SEEN IT YESTERDAY ... IT WASNT ANYTHING THAT PARTED THE CLOUDS BECAUSE IT WAS EVEN BLUISH GREEN IN THE SKY . TWO PARALLEL LINES IN THE SKY . IT WAS SOMETHING THAT I NEVER SEEN .