They were schlepping stuff in and out of the house.”
“At the time we were playing around with some pretty extraterrestrial theories. “We had a couple of beers so there was that…” she said. After the flash, she and her friend immediately began speculating, and even second guessing, what they saw.
That NWS confirmation was an ah-ha moment for Kadar Sunday morning. “The satellite data suggests that *if* it landed, though, it was in FL.” “We've heard reports that it landed near Perry, FL, which would match with the GLM data, but can't confirm anything,” NWS tweeted. They also tracked social media reports from Valdosta, Ga., Tallahassee, Wakulla County, Gainesville and Jacksonville.įor the Tallahassee area, it would have appeared as a brief 5 seconds of illumination between about 11:52 and 11:54 p.m. View Playlist: Meteor caught on doorbell cameras in Tallahassee “It basically has a global lightning mapper and picks out bright cloud flashes from lightning when we have thunderstorms,” said Kelly Godsey, a NWS meteorologist. The National Weather Service Tallahassee picked up the chunk of space rock streaking across the sky on its GOES satellite system. The fireball was caught by night owls, dash cams and surveillance videos across the region. What Kadar saw was actually a meteor or meteorite that streaked across the sky and was visible across a wide swath of South Georgia and North Florida.
