Meteor streaks across the Midwest skies
April 16th, 2010 - 2:35 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Milwaukee, Apr 15 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A huge meteor streaked across the Midwest skies, and it was so powerful and brilliant that for some moments, it even turned night into day. It also managed to rattle houses and it was packed with so much power, that even some trees and ground was also shaking. At the moment there were no reports of any causalities.
According to reports, the meteor lit the sky at around 10 pm, and made it almost like a day, for some time. The National Weather Service officials said that the meteor was visible in the Midwest sky, from the southwestern Wisconsin and northern Iowa to almost up to central Missouri.
The Lafayette County Sheriff Scott Pedley said that his office got numerous reports of some bright light in the sky, which turned the night into the day, and also shook houses and the ground. “There were reports of four to five minutes of explosions or rumbling,” he said. He had no clue about the source of the sound, but suspected that it may have been caused by a sonic boom, in case the meteor managed to break the sound barrier.
“It was somewhat alarming to me,” Sean Thompson said. “I’ve seen shooting stars, but I’ve never seen something jetting across the sky with flames shooting off it.”
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