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[electriceye]

Hey Joe

Its been quite a while since i been on here, but i just couldn't pass this up. on my way home from work wednesday night i was driving down Green st heading west when all of a sudden i see up in the sky what appeared to be just over O'hare airport a green ball of light with white trails of light falling from the back. it was bright and lit up the sky at first i thought it was a roman candle but it was way to high in the sky and to bright or a plane was shooting off a flare in trouble but then realized they probably don't have time to do that then i thought maybe alien aircraft as there was a plane wright in the same area, no not that. kind of freaked me out as i have never seen anything like it before the next morning i wake up check my comcast emails and a new video comes up talking about a meteor in the midwestern skys over Ohio and Milwaukee im sure that is what i saw pretty cool.

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

E,

Great to see you back and looking at the skies....How's the Classic Orange Celestron?

You are most fortunate to have witnessed this.

Reports from all over the Midwest poured in - including Chicago.

If it was green, then we had an metal-based rock slam in our air space.

Cool!

Some reported hearing explosions or sonic booms.

Did you?

[electriceye]

Hey Joe the Classic Orange scope is doing well thanks,i am not sure if there was a sonic Boom as i was listening to wbbm radio at the moment so i would say no. but what a sight to see, it looked like Kryptonite

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

E,

I want you to come out this spring and join us for a observing session. It's been too long since you have...I think it was a lunar eclipse around '06?

I have heard space rocks pop and crackle high up in the atmosphere during meteor showers- much like distant skyrocket sparklers.

Green Kryptonite...sweet!