Fireball Seen Shooting Across PNW Skies

Massive meteor turns Pacific Northwest night sky electric blue

A brilliant blue fireball streaked across the Pacific Northwest early Friday, dazzling hundreds of skywatchers from Washington to British Columbia as it raced through the atmosphere at 33,000 mph.

Meteor fireball lights up the sky over Washington, other states...

A bright fireball lit up the night sky across the Pacific Northwest early Friday morning. The meteor was observed between 12:45 a.m. and 12:50 a.m., with reports spanning across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. The American Meteor Society defines a fireball as an exceptionally bright meteor. The event occurred during the annual Perseid meteor shower, one of the most active meteor showers of the year. Witnesses across the region d…

Fireball seen shooting across PNW skies

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- A rare meteor could be seen streaking over the skies of the Pacific Northwest early Friday morning, August 14. According to NASA, fireballs or bolides are "exceptionally bright meteors that are spectacular enough to be seen over a very wide area." In this case, a bolide was spotted and recorded by [...]

Explosive green and blue fireball seen over Pacific Northwest

Two bursts of light from the fireball could be seen across the Pacific Northwest. It broke apart with the energy equivalent of 10 tons of TNT, NASA said.

'It put on a show': Fireball streaks Spokane skies overnight

At around 12:45 a.m. Friday morning, people awake in Spokane and in the Pacific Northwest saw a less-than-10-second flash across the sky.

Fireball streaking across Northwest skies seen in Kitsap

A streaking piece of an asteroid was reported by hundreds of people across Washington when it appeared for moments early Friday.