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Midwest Meteor April 2010

Midwest Meteor April 2010

Last night a lot of people started talking on Facebook about a bright light they saw in the sky all around 10:00pm. I quickly searched Twitter for the word meteor and found that people were seeing it all across the Midwest. Here’s how some of my friends described it:

Tom Hay – Saw a thing that fell out of the sky… looked a little green with fire on the end…. can’t remember what it was called but it was cool!

Jessamyn Thomas – Just saw something fall from the sky, looked like a meteor/comet/alien spaceship. It turned the sky bright green and then red….look out Des Moines, ALIEN INVASION!!!!!

Angela Stephenson – Could of swore I just saw a meteor out my living room window!!! It caught me off guard so I didn’t get a pic or vid! Then, 5 minutes later they state on the news that a fireball was spotted in the sky by reporters; could be a meteor! I knew I wasn’t taking crazy pills!

I searched for some videos last night and this morning and only got a couple, the first one below is the most popular one. Then I decided to check our security camera at the church and found just a few seconds of it showing up! Late tonight I found a bunch more video shown below.
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Testing Facebook Video Embed

Testing Facebook Video Embed

Facebook recently upgraded their video feature to higher resolution video, and the option to embed videos on other sites. So far you can only embed your own. Here’s a recent video I recorded with a Flip Video Ultra at 640×480. The original embed was 576×432 but I’ve resized it to 500×375 to fit this blog.