{"id":776942,"date":"2026-05-06T09:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776942\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:19:17","slug":"second-fireball-in-a-week-lights-up-washington-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776942\/","title":{"rendered":"Second fireball in a week lights up Washington skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It came from outer space&#8230; and flew straight to Olympia.<\/p>\n<p>OLYMPIA, Wash. \u2014 Cameras in Olympia recorded a fireball crossing state skies early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/news\/local\/fireball-camano-island-skycam-video\/281-87da3f10-72cb-4c37-b820-5bc9343b9d16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second such<\/a> missive from space to be seen in western Washington in about a week, and just in time for &#8220;May the Fourth,&#8221; an informal holiday celebrating the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; franchise. The name of the holiday is a play on words for the iconic Star Wars phrase &#8220;may the force be with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Street cameras at the Washington State Capitol Campus recorded the incident at about 12:15 a.m. Tuesday, showing multiple angles of a bright green flash with a glowing orange tail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Witness reports logged on the American Meteor Society website around 11:30 p.m. describe the fireball in detail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To my perspective, it was the size of a light-pole, but much brighter. The initial light through the sky caught my attention, but the flash of light and then the disappear was really alarming. Initially, the comet\/fireball was light yellow, but the terminal flash was closer to white. It is too dark outside right now, I couldn&#8217;t see any fragmentation after the flash,&#8221; wrote one witness on the AMS website.<\/p>\n<p>Per astronomers at NASA, meteors originate as rocks in space that can range in size from grains of dust to small asteroids. When they enter Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and burn up, they become meteors, and especially bright meteors are called fireballs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It came from outer space&#8230; and flew straight to Olympia. OLYMPIA, Wash. \u2014 Cameras in Olympia recorded a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":776943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-776942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116526892168743049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}