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‘Ball Of Fire’ Lights Up San Francisco Skies

by KREX News Room
by Jacklyn Thrapp

Story Created: Feb 16, 2013 at 7:00 PM MDT

Story Updated: Feb 16, 2013 at 7:00 PM MDT

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) The American Meteor Society says it received nearly three dozen reports of a fireball streaking across the sky over Northern California last night.

Operations manager Mike Hankey says, based on the reports, it was likely a fairly common meteor, and not a major event.

However, the reports came just hours after a meteor exploded over Russia, injuring more than 1,000 people, and an asteroid passed relatively close to Earth.

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Patrizia said on Sunday, Feb 17 at 4:57 PM

Saturday 16th/2013 around 11:20ish pm, our plane was still ascending from SF on our way to SD, when suddenly there was this big bright light that seemed that had landed amidst the lights below, a town city, or something. I could not tell exactly which city. Two other people for sure also saw it and were astonished. Still cannot believe it. The time we saw this doesn't coincide with the other reports above.

John Doe said on Sunday, Feb 17 at 2:40 PM

The sky is falling, the sky is falling cried the kakadoodle doo and every bird brain ducked

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