{"id":19031,"date":"2017-03-18T00:57:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/watch-a-fireball-light-up-seattles-skies\/"},"modified":"2017-03-18T00:57:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:57:03","slug":"watch-a-fireball-light-up-seattles-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/watch-a-fireball-light-up-seattles-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch a fireball light up Seattle\u2019s skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_318348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318348\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-318348\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170317-fireball-630x415.png\" alt=\"Fireball on YouTube\" width=\"630\" height=\"415\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-318348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The greenish streak just to the left of the streetlight in this dashcam video marks the flash of a fireball. (Michael Lee via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dozens of reports have streamed in about a fireball that was seen in&nbsp;the skies over Washington state, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The American Meteor Society\u2019s online tracker&nbsp;lists more than 70 reports from locales over a wide area, ranging southward to&nbsp;Eugene, Ore., northward to Vancouver and Enderby, B.C., and eastward to Grangeville, Idaho. Most of the reports were registered around 9:40&nbsp;p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Lee, one of the founders of the Seattle-based Jobscan resume service, captured the pop and flash of the fireball in a dashcam video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Meteor caught on dashcam (Seattle)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JgEQihofOfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Witnesses traded reports&nbsp;on Q13 Fox\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw it in Snohomish, thought it was a falling star but then there were three explosions that lit up the sky,\u201d one commenter wrote. \u201cSo cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tammy Kwan, a staff writer for The Georgia Straight&nbsp;in Vancouver, snagged her own dashcam video on the road in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas driving on Lougheed Highway in Pitt Meadows when I spotted something big that lit up the sky,\u201d she wrote in her YouTube description&nbsp;for the video. \u201cLater realized it was a huge meteor and it was pretty amazing seeing it with my own eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Vancouver meteor sighting caught on dashcam | March 16 2017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xfcg_GiZhqA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chances are the flash was caused by a meteor, but it could also have been a piece of space junk re-entering the atmosphere. The timestamps on dashcam videos could help expert meteor-watchers zero in on the space object\u2019s trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Washington\u2019s astronomy department didn\u2019t have anything to add this morning, but if we hear more, we\u2019ll update this item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greenish streak just to the left of the streetlight in this dashcam video marks the flash of a fireball. (Michael Lee via YouTube) Dozens of reports have streamed in about a fireball that was seen in&nbsp;the skies over Washington state, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia on Thursday night. The American Meteor Society\u2019s online tracker&nbsp;lists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4598,4599,4378],"class_list":["post-19031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fireballs","tag-meteors","tag-skywatching"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}