{"id":28392,"date":"2020-10-01T22:22:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T20:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=28392"},"modified":"2020-10-01T22:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T20:22:26","slug":"flash-of-light-seen-over-the-east-coast-likely-a-meteor-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/flash-of-light-seen-over-the-east-coast-likely-a-meteor-experts-say","title":{"rendered":"Flash of light seen over the East Coast likely a meteor, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Oct. 1 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span>\u00a0Residents on the East Coast, Ohio and Pennsylvania captured video of an unusually bright fireball in the sky that experts said was likely a meteor traveling at a high speed.<\/p>\n<p>Dashboard cameras and home security cameras recorded the flash of light in the sky just prior to 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsmeteors.org\/2020\/09\/bright-fireball-caught-above-ohio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the nonprofit American Meteor Society said<\/a> there were more than 700 reported sightings of the fireball.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"AWceIpmOt-w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fireball over Pennsylvania &amp; Ohio on Sept. 30th, 2020\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AWceIpmOt-w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The society said the fireball is believed to be a random meteor not associated with any known meteor showers.<\/p>\n<p>Expert Ralph Crewe said the meteor was unusually bright.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saw a really exceptional meteor, which is when a piece of debris from outer space, either rock or metal, hits the atmosphere,&#8221; Crewe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburgh.cbslocal.com\/2020\/10\/01\/flash-of-light-in-the-sky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told KDKA-TV.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said it&#8217;s rare to see a fireball so bright over a populated area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They actually happen pretty frequently but not usually in over-populated areas. Most of the Earth is the ocean, so we&#8217;re lucky to get to see one like this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-block lato\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 1 (UPI) &#8212;\u00a0Residents on the East Coast, Ohio and Pennsylvania captured video of an unusually bright fireball in the sky that experts said was likely a meteor traveling at a high speed. Dashboard cameras and home security cameras recorded the flash of light in the sky just prior to 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, and\u00a0the nonprofit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":28396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[733],"class_list":{"0":"post-28392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-miscellaneous","9":"tag-miscellaneous"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Flash of light seen over the East Coast likely a meteor, experts say - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oct. 1 (UPI) --\u00a0Residents on the East Coast, Ohio and Pennsylvania captured video of an unusually bright fireball\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/flash-of-light-seen-over-the-east-coast-likely-a-meteor-experts-say\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flash of light seen over the East Coast likely a meteor, experts say\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oct. 1 (UPI) --\u00a0Residents on the East Coast, Ohio and Pennsylvania captured video of an unusually bright fireball\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/flash-of-light-seen-over-the-east-coast-likely-a-meteor-experts-say\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-01T20:22:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/Flash-of-light-seen-over-the-East-Coast-likely-a-meteor-experts-say.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"645\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"432\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/flash-of-light-seen-over-the-east-coast-likely-a-meteor-experts-say\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/flash-of-light-seen-over-the-east-coast-likely-a-meteor-experts-say\",\"name\":\"Flash of light seen over the East Coast likely a meteor, experts say - 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