# Anyone see the Russian Fireballs?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-see-the-russian-fireballs/56035>\
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**Created:** [June 30, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-see-the-russian-fireballs/56035 "2004-06-30T01:47:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Adam1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adam1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Adam1)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-see-the-russian-fireballs/56035/1 "2004-06-30T01:47:47Z")

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I was sitting in the neighbours yard, having a few 😉 me, my gf, the neighbours and another neighbour, Saturday night. My girlfriend pointed at the sky and said “hey, what is that?” She was pretty tipsy by this point, so we thought she was seeing things…but then we all were…What we saw: five red, glowing objects streaking across the sky. They weren’t shooting stars, they were all going the same direction, and weren’t fizzling out like shooting stars do. We watched them until they went behind the Niagara Escarpment - about 20 seconds - so it seemed…anyway, we had no idea what they were. My neighbour told me tonight she’s found out,and gave me this address:

[http://www.spaceweather.com/index.cgi](http://www.spaceweather.com/index.cgi)

change the date on the right to June 27

did anyone else see this? This is a once in a lifetime thing!!!

Adam

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyone-see-the-russian-fireballs/56035/2 "2004-07-08T13:15:33Z")

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I was camping with a bunch of friends near the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania and we all saw it too. It was beautiful – never saw anything like it before. We saw one really bright streak go across the sky, and there were like 4 other small pieces, not as bright, flying parallel to the bright one. Didn’t look anything like the picture on [spaceweather.com](http://spaceweather.com), though. We were all wondering what it was, too. Too slow to be a shooting star… It was strange because all the pieces went at the same speed in the same direction.