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Bright object over east coast likely a meteor
Associated Press
Published September 30, 2005
MIAMI - East Florida residents from the Space Coast to South Florida saw an intensely bright light speeding across the sky Thursday night. Experts said it probably was a meteor.
The glowing orb was spotted around 7 p.m. Officials got calls asking if a plane had crashed.
"This one could have been from a baseball to a basketball-sized chunk of space rock that slammed into our Earth's atmosphere," said Jack Horkheimer, director of the planetarium at the Miami Museum of Science.
National Weather Service meteorologist Barry Baxter said he wasn't sure whether the object was over the Atlantic Ocean or the Florida peninsula.
Bob Cooper, 48, of Dania Beach was in his backyard when what looked like a flaming ball caught his eye. "It turned from orange to the-center-of-the-sun yellow, then it disintegrated," Cooper said.
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