A meteor flashed across the Front Range sky on Friday night and more than two dozen people reported sighting the fiery, celestial object to the American Meteor Society.
Witnesses from Durango and Grand Junction in Colorado, and Utah and Albuquerque, New Mexico, also reported the sighting. Most of the 30 sightings reported were from the Denver metro area.
“I glanced almost directly up, then to the left, I saw this thing streak across the sky, it was surprisingly slow,” Foot said. “It was the best meteor I’ve ever seen.”“It was a bright, white color, with fragments coming off of it burning up, kind of a light green,” he said. “There was a flash, and it just disappeared.”
“It’s what we call a fireball, a meteor that is larger and brighter than normal,” Lunsford said. “This is the time of year when fireballs happen quite often. They’re typically high in the sky in February and March, and into April.”“It was a slow moving evening fireball, we call them random events,” he said. “It was nice that it was during the evening hours, not terribly cold and some people were still outside” to witness it.
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