Michiana residents outside on Wednesday evening, October 29th may have witnessed a bright streak going across the sky. 

While there have been reports out of Colorado of a huge fireball in the sky last evening, we have also had some eyewitnesses to what were probably meteors here in Michiana.  We are not in a classic "meteor shower", although the Orionid meteor showers is winding down.  This could either be part of that, or just a random meteor that hit the earth's atmosphere.  Like we saw on Jupiter a few years ago, large meteors can break up in the atmosphere and fall in several places over a period of time.  Here in our area, the reports that I have been receiving came at about 9:10-9:15pm, and some of the e-mailers have said it was the brightest they had ever seen.  Others actually described it as a "very bright blue flood lamp".  The fireball in Colorado occurred last evening at 7:30pm MDT, which is 9:30pm our time.  So these could have been related. 

Of course we won't know for sure.  But, if you were wondering what you saw last night, it was more than likely a meteor, and possibly part of a very large meteor.

Mike Hoffman