Meteor explodes over Washington’s Puget Sound area, rattling bones with a ‘huge boom’
A fireball meteor exploded and zipped through the Washington skies on Wednesday night, stargazers reported.
The American Meteor Society received a dozen reports of a fireball seen over parts of Washington state at about 7 p.m. Wednesday, according to the society.
The reports came from areas like Brier, Vancouver, Bellingham, Anacortes and Kingston, according to the American Meteor Society.
Experts say the meteor was originally “likely the size of a car” but burned up before it reached the Puget Sound area, according to Q13.
“The more I read the more inclined I am to believe this was a fireball (which is a meteor that is larger and brighter than normal),” Bob Lunsford of the American Meteor Society told KOMO News. “I’m certain now that this was a meteoric event.”
Scott Story, who lives in Brier, caught the fireball on video Wednesday, according to the Herald Net.
He told the HeraldNet that he saw someone post about seeing a meteor and checked his house camera, which caught the streak and sonic boom, according to the news outlet.
Several other people reported to the American Meteor Society that there were bright explosions after they initially saw the fireball, and some said there were “loud, deep booms.”
“Had a boom, possibly two quick booms,” someone who caught the meteor in Lake Stevens said to the American Meteor Society.
In Brier, another viewer saw the fireball streak, and after a few seconds it was “the loudest boom (they’ve) ever heard.”
“Huge boom that shook the house, and many people on our Facebook community group heard it, saw it and had their homes shook by it,” the Brier resident reported to the American Meteor Society.
