Skywatchers in northern Florida got a thrill on Saturday when a brilliant fireball streaked across the night sky. And one Jacksonville resident who didn’t get to see the bolide in person was lucky enough to catch it on her backyard security camera (see video above).
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“The fact that people heard sonic booms [means] it did survive down to the lower atmosphere,” Robert Lunsford, the society’s treasurer, told the station. “So there’s a good chance that some small fragments may have reached the ground probably about 50 miles west of Jacksonville.”
