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I was driving home when I saw it, so unfortunately I wasn't completely focused on it and my location and some of the details are a bit foggy as I have no experience in astronomy or anything similar. This was also my first time seeing a shooting star/fireball/bolide (I'm not exactly sure which it was, I think it was a bolide but I could be wrong) which makes recalling things accurately a bit more difficult, I guess. I can tell you that the brightness and the color (a very bright green) led me to first believe it was a firework of some kind until I realized it was moving downwards at a slight angle and the explosion and width of the streak it made was unlike any firework I had ever seen. I guess the fact I was in my car with the radio turned up to a moderate volume could have muffled any sound it potentially could have made, but I didn't hear anything before, during, or after the event. I wasn't exactly sure what to put for the degree measurement so I tried to replicate the angle it was travelling downwards, and I know that it was headed towards the grassy area instead of the other side of the highway when I was travelling on OH-161 W. Hopefully that makes sense, directions and measurements have always been difficult to wrap my head around for some reason. I wasn't really paying attention to anything but the road, but it was bright and noticeable enough to catch my attention. It shot out as a green streak and then seemed to explode in a bright green flash. After it exploded it disappeared without any noticeable remaining streaks, etc. |
