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Western U.S. Skies Light Up From Midnight Meteor

November 19th, 2009 · No Comments

At exactly 12:07 am Mountain Standard Time last night a bolide meteor crashed into Earth’s atmosphere above the western United States. Witnesses in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho say the fireball “turned night into day” and issued shock waves that “shook the ground” when it exploded. This flooded phone lines for 9-1-1 and local television [...]

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