meteor? falling satellite?

I was out looking up at the stars a while ago in the SW part of the USA,
and at 9 PM CST out of the corner of my eye I saw a huge flaming object pass
overhead going south-east. Probably saw it for less than a second. It seemed
so big I thought it might crash, but when I looked over the fence there was
nothing to be seen in the southern sky.
Anybody else see it?

"tic" wrote in message ...
I was out looking up at the stars a while ago in the SW part of the USA,
and at 9 PM CST out of the corner of my eye I saw a huge flaming object
pass
overhead going south-east. Probably saw it for less than a second. It
seemed
so big I thought it might crash, but when I looked over the fence there
was
nothing to be seen in the southern sky.
Anybody else see it?

Correction: I meant south-west, not south east. It was like a blob or
globe, and flames were coming out of it in all directions, and the flames
were larger than the object.

YES! I was wondering if anyone else say it too. It appeared for maybe
2-4 seconds and was much larger than the normal shooting star. More
like a fireball. I observed it from MA (east coast) traveling south,
but was not sure if it was going east or west. When I saw it, I was
waiting to hear an explosion, which never came. Distance from ground?
Hard to say, but definitely less that about 20,000 feet, as I can view
jets coming in and out of Logan at the same time of nite. Wish I had a
video of it!!

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:37:42 -0600, "tic" wrote:


"tic" wrote in message ...
I was out looking up at the stars a while ago in the SW part of the USA,
and at 9 PM CST out of the corner of my eye I saw a huge flaming object
pass
overhead going south-east. Probably saw it for less than a second. It
seemed
so big I thought it might crash, but when I looked over the fence there
was
nothing to be seen in the southern sky.
Anybody else see it?

Correction: I meant south-west, not south east. It was like a blob or
globe, and flames were coming out of it in all directions, and the flames
were larger than the object.

If you saw it in the last couple days, it was the booster from a Russian
supply craft sent up to resupply the ISS. They always seem to burn up
over the U.S.

..



anonymous@newserver wrote:
YES! I was wondering if anyone else say it too. It appeared for maybe
2-4 seconds and was much larger than the normal shooting star. More
like a fireball. I observed it from MA (east coast) traveling south,
but was not sure if it was going east or west. When I saw it, I was
waiting to hear an explosion, which never came. Distance from ground?
Hard to say, but definitely less that about 20,000 feet, as I can view
jets coming in and out of Logan at the same time of nite. Wish I had a
video of it!!

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:37:42 -0600, "tic" wrote:


"tic" wrote in message ...

I was out looking up at the stars a while ago in the SW part of the USA,
and at 9 PM CST out of the corner of my eye I saw a huge flaming object

pass

overhead going south-east. Probably saw it for less than a second. It

seemed

so big I thought it might crash, but when I looked over the fence there

was

nothing to be seen in the southern sky.
Anybody else see it?

Correction: I meant south-west, not south east. It was like a blob or
globe, and flames were coming out of it in all directions, and the flames
were larger than the object.