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Robert Lunsford, a volunteer who has spent 40 years tracking fireballs for the American Meteorological Society in Southern California, said the object may have been a distant cousin of the meteorite that some scientists believe flattened 830 square miles in Siberia known as the Tunguska Event almost exactly 100 years ago, on June 30, 1908.
Scientists believe the meteorite may have come from the Beta Taurid shower.
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The mystery surrounding the fireball that streaked across the skies yesterday about 10:40 a.m. continues. However, some experts believe it was space junk burning up as it entered the Earth's atmosphere.

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Fireball reported over the mountains near Big Bear Lake

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Whats being described as a fireball in the sky was seen as far away as the state line and Temecula, and spotted somewhere around the San Bernardino Mountains on Tuesday morning, but officials could not identify what it was.
Countless people, including fire personnel, from the Nevada state line to Temecula reported seeing a brightly coloured streak falling from the northwestern sky at about 10:40 a.m., said San Bernardino County Fire Dispatch Supervisor Tom Barnes.

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Witnesses across Southern California say they saw an object 'moving very fast across the northern sky' and falling near the San Bernardino Mountains. Officials have no firm answers on what it was.
From Hollywood Hills to the Nevada state line, people reported seeing a fireball streaking across the sky and falling near the San Bernardino Mountains this morning.
San Bernardino County Fire Dispatch reported receiving dozens of calls related to what was described as fireball moving at high speed and falling in northwest sky around 10:40 a.m.

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