Strange
Meteor Shower, Explosion Light Up The Night
Sky
"This huge tail was following this big
ball, and it was just as bright as the
sun," says Jeff Boyle. Boyle was on his
way from work after 10 p.m. Wednesday when
he saw the strange object falling from the
sky in Waukesha. He drove to where it seemed
to have landed near Crites Field, only to
discover a multi-vehicle crash at a nearby
intersection. Boyle wasn't alone in
witnessing what was determined to be a
meteor shower. People reported seeing it in
Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee, Waukesha and
Sheboygan among other places. "This
meteor was bright enough to be in the class
of a fireball," said Astronomy
Magazine editor Michael Bakich in an
interview with Newsradio 620 WTMJ's
"Wisconsin's Morning News."
Reports of the bright fireball flooded
county sheriff dispatch centers across the
southern half of Wisconsin. National Weather
Service offices in La Crosse, Davenport and
Des Moines, Iowa as well as St. Louis and
Kansas City, Missouri received numerous
reports of the fireball from law enforcement
officials and the public. A black and white
rooftop webcam captured video of the
fireball over Madison.