Did you see it? Bright fireball explodes over Washington sky

A bright fireball streaked across Washington’s night sky early Friday, Aug. 14, and was widely captured on camera, though there are no confirmed reports of any meteor pieces reaching the ground. The object was a 16-inch meteor, known as a “bolide,” appearing above the Pacific Northwest at about 12:48 a.m. PDT with a vivid blue glow. FOX Weather says it traveled north at roughly 33,000 mph and covered 36 miles through the atmosphere before fragmenting above Sim’s Corner. The atmospheric explosion released energy roughly equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, generating infrasound recorded across several Cascade Range volcanoes between 12:55 a.m. and 1:10 a.m. PT.