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http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2016/05/watch_police_dashcam_catches_v.html#incart_river_mobile_home
"A police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera early Tuesday.
The bright flash visible from several states was apparently left by a meteor burning up as it passed through Earth's atmosphere. Other people and webcams also captured images of the fireball.
The American Meteor Society reported more than 400 sightings in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and parts of Canada.
Portland police Sgt. Tim Farris was parked in front of the Central Fire Station when his camera captured the meteor lighting up the sky around 12:50 a.m.
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Very cool, I think!
Photographer
(1,142 posts)suspicion of being an illegal alien and speeding. The meteor was shot while resisting arrest.
Maine-i-acs
(1,499 posts)I know the Sgt. in question and that's not something he'd do, of course.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It's white.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)It's said to bring upheaval in the established order - especially on all grand poobahs and their hangers on.
Coincidentally (or not?), Hillary just had an unexpected loss in Oregon.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)That spells trouble for my favorite governor, Paul "Baron Harkonnen" LePage.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)and a bag of shit like LePig, is beyond me.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Stevepol
(4,234 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Coincidence? I think not!
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)The city in Oregon was founded by settlers from the east, of course. Two of the town's early leaders were from Portland, ME and Boston. They flipped a coin to see which of their past cities would give its name to the new one.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)The conspiracy goes back further than I thought!
Seriously, cool bit of info. Many thanks.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)but WOW! Nothing that lit up the sky at all! That is amazing!
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)It does seem like you must have seen some big ones, too, in Pasadena, with the city light pollution, no?
C Moon
(12,213 posts)where the city lights aren't too heavy. But yeah, they were distant high up in the sky ones. It was nice.
We're always backpacking in August for the Perseid meteor showers. It's such a blast.
niyad
(113,345 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,660 posts)K&R!
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