Meteors

Not many witnessed it, but a sky camera captured the moment when a big meteor exploded in the sky over St. Louis, Missouri early Friday morning.

You will sometimes see a meteor burn up in the atmosphere over Illinois and Iowa, but you'll rarely see them during the daytime which is exactly what happened early Friday morning.

This was one of the most widely-viewed fireballs of the year so far. Hundreds saw a meteor explode over Illinois and many captured videos of the event that briefly turned night into day over the Land of Lincoln.

When this Missouri traffic camera was originally put in place, it had one job - to monitor traffic over a highway. It accidentally just did another job and that's capturing video of a meteor exploding in the sky over the roadway.

I am glad there are much smarter people than me in the world. That's because there was a strange streak that appeared over Missouri during the overnight hours into early Tuesday morning and there are theories from the educated about what took place.

Some that went outside late Friday night in Illinois to observe the passing of the International Space Station got a big surprise as a meteor exploded in the sky near the ISS.

It was one of the brightest sky objects seen so far in 2024. One eyewitness described it as "humongous". It was a gigantic green fireball that disintegrated over Missouri and video captured the moment in happened.

Of all the space rocks that have disintegrated into the atmosphere in 2024, the one just seen over Missouri is one of the most widely-seen of the year. It was a humongous meteor that was captured by a backyard security camera as it exploded over Missouri.

It is believed to have started its existence in an asteroid belt somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. Eventually, this 70 million ton meteor would put a huge hole in Illinois and may have even started the Ice Age.

I saw the buzz about this all over social media Saturday, May 4 after what many thousands described as 'a green fireball' explode over Illinois. Many captured video of the space rock as it disintegrated over the Land of Lincoln.