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Steveo · 04-14-2010, 07:59 AM

I grew up in northern New Jersey. One early dusk my father was driving us kids home and we saw almost exactly what you described - big fireball, trailing fire stream and smoke stream afterward. It seemed so big and looked very low in the sky. We (Dad included) thought it must have hit very close to where we were so we started following the smoke stream to find it. Except no matter how far we traveled the smoke stream never got any lower and eventually dissipated. We found out the next day that it was a meteorite that had landed about 250 miles north in upstate NY.

04-14-2010, 07:59 AM	#3
Steveo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 524 Thanks: 47 Thanked 123 Times in 63 Posts	I grew up in northern New Jersey. One early dusk my father was driving us kids home and we saw almost exactly what you described - big fireball, trailing fire stream and smoke stream afterward. It seemed so big and looked very low in the sky. We (Dad included) thought it must have hit very close to where we were so we started following the smoke stream to find it. Except no matter how far we traveled the smoke stream never got any lower and eventually dissipated. We found out the next day that it was a meteorite that had landed about 250 miles north in upstate NY.