Watch: Bright blue FIREBALL falls from the Colorado night sky *cue X Files music* πŸ‘½
Β· Oct 6, 2021 Β· NottheBee.com

It's a bird! It's a plane! Maybe it's aliens?! But no, it's actually one huge, incredibly bright blue FIREBALL so powerful that it'll power up your solar panels!

I almost wish the only footage we could see is from one person's flip phone– you know, pixilated, blurry and very alien-esque.

But these videos are clear as a night sky lit up by a meteor bright as the planet Venus, literally.

Over 40 people reported the fireball sighting on Sunday morning, mainly in Colorado, but it was also seen in Wyoming and New Mexico. The American Meteor Society has received a dozen videos of the slighting.

The videos show a clear, dark night sky where the fireball appears to drop out of (seemingly) nowhere, lighting up in a beautiful blue haze.

"Everything was pitch dark, and all of a sudden it lit up as if it was a brightly lit moon," said Doug Robinson, who captured video of the fireball over Boulder, Colorado.

Another fireball witness named Josh Ellis in Evergreen, Colorado, shared his footage with CBS Denver and said the fireball was so bright that it charged his solar lights.πŸ’‘

Yes, it was a pretty blue light. But it was one powerful, pretty blue light. So powerful that about six people say they heard a BOOM.

"Ten or 20 miles may not seem very close to the ground, but when we think about typical burning stars, we're seeing things that are burning up 60 to 70 miles high," Chris Peterson from the Cloudbait Observatory told CBS Denver.

According to Peterson, this type of occurrence over a single area only happens every few years and he believes there's a good chance this fireball left several pounds of material on the ground.

I gotta say, that pretty blue tint really reminds me of something...

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