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An apparent meteor has astonished the onlookers in Wisconsin on Wednesday night with its brief presence.
According to an official at the Communications Center Supervisor, the meteor was first reported to the center about 10:15 p.m., and after half an hour, it got about 36 calls.
An amateur astronomer from Waunakee saw a bolt of lightning and said, “My first reaction was gee, when the clouds roll in,” he said. “(I) glanced out the kitchen window to see whatever it was disintegrate into half dozen or a dozen parts all screaming across the sky.”
According to James Lattis, the Director of the University of Wisconsin Space Place, the event is not as dramatic as the previously reported ones.
“Even something relatively small, like the size of a golf ball, will light up the sky when it comes through,” he said.
“They tend to disintegrate completely while they’re still many miles above the earth,” he also said.
It is also thought to be a ‘sporadic meteor’ and not part of a larger meteor shower.
Some people were also making stress calls saying that the object moved from the northwest to the southeast. But, the authorities have not traced any evidence till now.
