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Astro Bob blog: Fireball! Interplanetary visitor heads for Lake Michigan

At 1:25 a.m. today a massive green fireball seared the sky over Illinois and Wisconsin, sparking hundreds of reports and producing some awesome dashcam and security camera video. The visitor from space may have even dropped meteorites along the way.

3140057+Fireball Wis Feb6_2017S.jpg — A brilliant fireball was caught on camera over the UW-Madison campus at 1:25 this morning. Credit: UW-Madison / SSEC/ AOS

By Robert King

February 06, 2017 at 2:00 PM

At 1:25 a.m. today a massive green fireball seared the sky over Illinois and Wisconsin, sparking hundreds of reports and producing some awesome dashcam and security camera video. The visitor from space may have even dropped meteorites along the way. Read post here .

By Robert King