And this as well, a personal account from a poster over on Goro's board named Heathyr who also had a major meteor experience in Arkansas recently:
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I debated whether to post this a couple of weeks ago, just because of the weirdness of it (not used to seeing this type of stuff) and I guess I just wanted to kind of "la la la was all my imagination" it.
A couple weeks ago, I was on my way back home and driving late at night. I was between towns, and I'm in southern AR, so it's pretty rural and you have to drive an hour or more to get anywhere. Anyway, I'm driving along, and I see (seriously) a big fireball falling from the sky at a diagonal angle kind of up ahead of me to the left of the road and directed towards the woods. I just kind of slowed down, not knowing WHAT to make of it. I mean, I've seen shooting stars before, but this looked like some sort of flaming bomb. The colors were like that white hot flame color, you know when you see something just ragingly on fire? Kind of white-blue-red around the edges and mixing together?
I really didn't know what to think ya'll. At first I thought "fireworks" then I slowed down, thinking oh shit, is that a bomb? Then thinking oh shit I'm actually having to say something like that. Then I kind of slowed down, not really knowing what to do, I was going over a little mini-bridge over a creek.
This all happened in a matter of about 5 seconds. I saw it get to the edge of the trees, then it burned up (from my vision inside the car) before reaching the tree horizon. Ya'll, this thing was so close, I've never seen anything like it, I'm still just kind of unbelieving that I saw it. Picture yourself in your car, then look to the left. I saw it out of the corner of my eye, starting at my passenger window, then through my front window, then it burned up like I said earlier. Now make a circle with your thumb and forefinger, and put it up say towards your front window, that's how big it was from my vision. A big blue/white/red fireball. And it "burned up" just like you would see a shooting star do, except this was *anything* but teeny tiny.
So, I haven't said anything, just kind of wanting to ignore it (I like drama except when it happens to me-I know, stupid) and act like it never happened. But now there is all this talk of meteors, and I just looked at that survival sight that someone mentioned (belongs to sylvia somebody, can't remember the name) and she mentioned it, saying that her inlaws heard the boom. I didn't hear the boom, maybe because I keep my radio on so loud all the time, but damn, it just freaks me out a little to see something like that on her sight, and it just has to be the same thing, same time frame and all. Sigh. I hope we don't get any more.
Heathyr
still a bit freaked out
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"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!" - Anonymous
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"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
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