Airplane Camera Captures Awesome Meteor Video
Often, the coolest thing you see out a plane window is the wing. Or clouds. Or if you’re lucky, an aerial landing view worthy of sharing on Instagram. But a pilot flying over New York City’s Hudson River the other night saw something better than all of that combined: a shooting star. And it was caught on video from his plane.
On Saturday at 6:16 p.m. EST, pilot Mike Grossman was flying his Piper Archer plane 1,500 feet over the city when a bright light streaked by his right window. A GoPro attached to his aircraft captured the whole thing. The video he posted on YouTube also includes his voice, hesitantly asking the ground crew whether they saw the same bright streak he did. They did not (you can tell they don’t even believe him at first because they suggest that maybe he was seeing a plane over nearby Newark airport). But more than 800 other people in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Canada reported that they did see it.
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One guy driving in Falls Church, Va., even captured the fireball on his car’s dashboard camera. You can hear his wonder in the video as he gasps, “Whoah, what was that? Did I catch that? Firework or meteor?” It was indeed a meteor, and as he told ABC News, it was “startling. Even unnerving, maybe.”
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