Meteor, Most Likely "not" a Leonid Stirs Up Utah

Around midnight last night a meteor streaked across the sky in and around Salt Lake City, Utah. It was visible to thousands across much of northern Utah. The meteor came in from the northeast and streaked towards the south. It was most likely was not associated with the Leonid meteor shower, which peaked just yesterday. Eye witness accounts and later analysis has suggested that this was a sporadic bollide.

It exploded in the sky and produced a significant amount of light, giving off a greenish hue. Some reports of a sonic boom were also made. Sonic booms associated with meteors are quite common.

You can head on over to Fox 13's report on the meteor and catch a glimpse of the object, and the light show it produced on some security cam footage as it came into the Earth's atmosphere.

In addition to the report, a significant number of people left comments on the Fox 13 report saw the event. There are a couple of comments from Toole county that indicate that the meteor either came close to the ground there, or may have possibly hit the ground in Toole County.

I once witnessed something like this in Northeastern Arizona a couple of years ago, but only the resultant bright green light. The meteor exploded somewhere off to the north in the event I saw, but the security camera footage from the report above looked very similar to what I saw at that time.