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A Bolt From the Blue: WATCH 'Meteoroid' Light up Sky Over Detroit
A Bolt From the Blue: WATCH 'Meteoroid' Light up Sky Over Detroit
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Following multiple reports of a flash in the sky, accompanied by the sound of thunder near Detroit, Michigan, the US National Weather Service confirmed that... 17.01.2018, Sputnik International
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A Bolt From the Blue: WATCH 'Meteoroid' Light up Sky Over Detroit
06:04 GMT 17.01.2018 (Updated: 11:58 GMT 06.08.2022) Following multiple reports of a flash in the sky, accompanied by the sound of thunder near Detroit, Michigan, the US National Weather Service confirmed that the phenomena were not weather-related.
NASA said that the bright light and thunderous noises which were reported were due to a meteoroid entering the Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday night.
Bill Cooke of NASA's meteoroid environment office in Alabama said that this "huge event" was "definitely a meteoroid."
Local media outlets cited meteorologist Cory Behnke of the weather service in White Lake Township as saying that the first report on "lightning with thunder" from greater Detroit came at 8:15 P.M. local time.
"We checked our observational data here, and I can tell you we've not had any lightning," Behnke said, adding that it was most likely a meteoroid.
