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Fireball streaks across the sky in Seattle, PNW as ‘fireball season’ continues
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Fireball streaks across the sky in Seattle, PNW as ‘fireball season’ continues

The Seattle Times·The Seattle Times·about 1 month ago
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Seattle Times breaking news reporter A flash of “greenish” light blazed through Gerald Tracy’s windows early Wednesday morning, lighting up his apartment in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood. It was like someone turned the overheads on, but it was the middle of the night, Tracy said. “At first, I thought it was lightning or something,” Tracy said. He had been lying awake in the dark and immediately turned to Reddit to check if anyone else saw what he had. It was a fireball. Users on Reddit posted videos of a bluish-green streak across the sky after 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. More than 100 people across Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, Canada, reported the event on the American Meteor Society’s website . In their reports, people called it “magnificent,” “spectacular” and “an incredible sight to see.” Many were in awe, others startled.  One person said, they’d “never seen anything quite like that.” It was “very bright and so alarming,” said another.…

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