I was across the street with my girl and my homie mikey looking for scrap to cash in, and mikey was with the flashlight lookin for stuff and my girl was watching him, when all the sudden i look up and see a comet looking light, light green flying down towards the ground, maybe about 200 300ft up, kind of looked like a firework, but it was heading straight towards earth, and i then it just exploded into sparks, no noise at all, please tell me someone knows what this is, it couldnt be a comet, because it was light green, very bright and didnt just dissapear, it exploded with sparx. i was shocked at the moment but when i caught my senses i told my girl to look and finally she looked and it was gone...NOONE saw it but me, and now im all paranoid and thinking im crazy...Anyone know what this is?
2007-07-18 19:13:49 · 7 answers · asked by hatexsociety88 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Sounds like a meteor to me---possibly a fire ball meteor. It's really hard to judge how far away they are, but it was probably about 50 miles up instead of 300 feet. This is the beginning of the Perseids meteor shower; if it came from the direction of the constellation Perseus, it was probably a Perseid.
Two years ago, I saw a brilliant green one that lasted for about fifteen seconds, and then it skipped across the waves of the Pacific Ocean, making three successive splashes of red-hot steam. I think it must have been as big as a battleship 50 miles away; but it could have been a lot smaller and closer.
2007-07-18 20:40:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
What you saw was probably a very bright meteor, sometimes called a fireball or bolide. There's no easy way of judging distances in the sky, so it was probably much farther away than you thought.
You have to be looking in the right direction at the right time to see a meteor. Most of the time, by the time you point it out to somebody else, it's gone, as happened with your friends. Anyway, what you saw was real, a chunk of space debris burning up in the atmosphere, and you're a lucky guy to have seen it!
2007-07-19 09:02:51 · answer #2 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have seen the same thing several times, and what you saw was a meteor burning up as it flew through the atmosphere. If the meteor contained any copper, it would have a green light as it burned.
I saw one several years ago, brilliant green, and it lasted for about 5-6 seconds then vanished in a cloud of dirty brown smoke.
2007-07-19 03:41:23 · answer #3 · answered by Foxfire 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yokai
2007-07-19 02:17:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
If someone told you it would not be a ufo, and thats no fun. Sounds like fireworks to me.
2007-07-19 03:27:34 · answer #5 · answered by Darrell 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That is a planetonid of plutonium fire,not naturally found in our galaxy.
2007-07-19 07:55:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe there was someone who was doing some experiments and his lab just exploded because of some chemical stuff.
2007-07-19 03:16:38 · answer #7 · answered by princesskatty 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋