Fireball lights up sky over Bay Area, Northern California
Marnie Mattice, of Reno, said she was jogging with a friend when
she saw the meteor light up the sky "kind of like lightning,"
then appear like "a very bright signal flare" in the distance.
"It wasn't symmetrical like a star, but more of an irregular
circle. As it burned out, it left a trail and what appeared to
be smaller glowing particles. It lasted long enough that we
could stand and watch it burn out completely," she said.  The
fireball might have been about the size of a small car when it
entered Earth's atmosphere, Lunsford said, adding that it most
likely disintegrated from five to 50 miles above Earth. He said
its speed wasn't immediately known, but even the slowest meteors
travel 10 miles per second, which is much faster than a speeding
bullet.  While meteors streak through the sky around the globe
every day, they're rare to see because they also occur during
daylight hours, on cloudy nights or over remote, uninhabited
areas.  Thursday