By: Sean M. Guay
Hershey, Pennsylvania – It was reported at 9:23 p.m. on Sunday night when sky gazers in central Pennsylvania first spotted a long line of starlink satellites, followed by a streaking green meteor heading from east to west across the night sky.
The sight was visible in nearby U.S. states like New Jersey and Virginia. Videos were posted by users on social media. Many eyewitnesses said the fireball passed silently but others said they heard a boom.
It was likely a fireball, or particularly bright meteor that was seen as far south as Richmond and as far north as New York, according to reports on X, previously known as Twitter. One eyewitness who was inside their home in Pennsylvania as the meteor passed reported spotting a bright beam of light that moved rapidly across the floor, shining down through the window.
A meteor of a similar green color, but described as much larger was spotted in the night sky over Turkey on Saturday evening.
Based on video of the event, it appears that fireball may have become a bolide, which is “a special type of fireball which explodes in a bright terminal flash at its end, often with visible fragmentation,” according to the American Meteor Society.
The passage of starlink satellites just prior to the meteor tonight in Pennsylvania is believed to be coincidental.
“We were outside tonight and we first saw the starlink satellites, then saw the green streak,” according to another eye witness.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – September 3, 2023
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The Meteor(ite) must’ve been under 5000′ in altitude, streaked by at an amazing speed, lit up the field behind our home, and looked like it could’ve crashed into Earth around Kutztown, PA or further to the West… We also saw the supposed Starlink satellites at 2100 hours.
What we saw was not anything like the typical videos people share of the Starlink satellites. We did a quick check on the FindStarlink.com sites, and said Starlink was not viewable from a town about 18 miles South of us, which says “may not be visible”, and then we used our particular Lat. & Long. which it stated, is not viewable.
Viewing the videos compared to what we saw was not typical of Starlink. Starlink seems to be not equidistant from each other overall, and quite bumpy in the train. Ours was precise, even, and perfect. Starlink shows a bit of unequal- ness in alignment, position on the “string”, ours did not. Starlink also shows that not all the satellites are turned on and that’s why there will be missing dots of light in the train. Ours had no missing lights.
There about 4,400 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which about 3,800 are operational.
Could it be an older version or new version of Starlink? No one knows… Why aren’t there any photos here of Starlink?
Plenty video and stills of the meteorite…
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