MILWAUKEE – Did you see it, too? A FOX6 News tower camera captured an apparent meteor shooting over downtown Milwaukee on Wednesday night, Oct. 29. It happened around 10:15 p.m.
The American Meteor Society is a nonprofit that observes and collects information about meteors and related phenomona. While not confirmed, the organization notes it has a pending report of a fireball in Milwaukee around that time – one of dozens of pending reports from around Wisconsin on Wednesday.
A meteor is a streak of light that appears in the sky when a small piece of space debris, often called a meteoroid, enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up due to friction.
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These bright flashes are sometimes known as “shooting stars,” though they’re not stars at all. If a meteor survives its fiery journey and lands on Earth’s surface, it’s called a meteorite.
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