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The bluish-white streak of light with a green tail and red fragments was a fireball or bolide which raced east in about 8 seconds.  It lit the sky up and was much brighter than last month's super moon. It was a simply stunning sight. We had several e-mails in from Camden County Georgia last night of folks saying they have never seen a meteor that bright and it was so intense that a sonic boom was heard about 2 minutes after it passed near the horizon. It did look like it may have made it to the ground but there is no confirmation on this as of yet. It was seen as far west as Alabama and as far north as South Carolina!
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Green fireball reported over Jacksonville, Florida

A Jacksonville, FL, witness reports watching a "green fireball fall down to Earth" at 10:05 p.m. on April 29, 2011.

"I was jogging toward the north when, in the corner of my eye, I saw a green flash in the sky. I stopped to watch as my first instinct was that it might be a passenger jet with a serious problem. For about 5 seconds I watched a green fireball fall down to the Earth. This was toward the west. The event only lasted about 5 seconds before it disappeared in a bright flash."

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Update

Possible Scatter field at latitude: 30°38'40.36"N, longitude:  82°28'33.28"W

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Google Earth file Possible scatter field 300411.kmz (1kb, kmz)

Ed ~ it should be noted that the exact location of the scatter field location may be anywhere in the above area, but is likely to be in the area either to the south or east of the above google map position (ie towards Jacksonville).



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A preliminary dropzone with a flight termination (with meteor moving West to East) at

 Latitude: 30°49'2.91"N, longitude: 82°29'9.17"W

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There are reports that a bright orange fireball was observed over southeastern US at ~02:10 UT, 30th April, 2011 (22:10 EDT, 29th).



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