Apparent meteor lights up skies over parts of Michigan.
Many cameras and witnesses caught sight of a meteor and a flash. Some heard a loud boom shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday January 16, 2018 in northern Illinois and southern Michigan.
The explanation is probably a bolide, a type of fireball or “brighter than usual meteor” that explodes with a bright terminal flash, often with visible fragmentation.
If the meteor landed on earth as a solid, then it is a meteorite. One account published on mlive.com reported that the meteor might have hit ground south of I-69 and west of Belsay Road near Burton, Michigan, which is just east of Flint, Michigan.
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mlive.com Where would meteor have hit U.S. or Canada?
DID YOU SEE IT? People from Chicago to Michigan saw a meteor tonight. Check out these videos! https://t.co/XyHuSA0tyZ pic.twitter.com/RP3fo7AXb1
— FOX 32 News (@fox32news) January 17, 2018
#meteor video From Ryan Evans in Michigan pic.twitter.com/Kfpk9UxdWY
— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) January 17, 2018
Dashcam video captures a meteor lighting up the sky tonight over Bloomfield Hills, Michigan https://t.co/yNCyRXCmcm pic.twitter.com/1jisddGDyk
— BuzzFeed Storm (@BuzzFeedStorm) January 17, 2018
Dash cams, Nest cams, Ring cams … Who thought of these Martians when you heard about the meteor? pic.twitter.com/8NdV6EVK1Y
— Cardinal News (@EarlyReport) January 17, 2018
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