Well, it wasn't the end of the world, or even of all life as we know it. Not even a close encounter of the third, or even fourth kind.
But a bright light in the sky just after midnight Wednesday morning certainly got the attention of skywatchers in northern Utah.
The light, described some as a bright green glow that may have exploded in a bright display, was a meteor, NASA Solar System Ambassador Patrick Wiggins told Fox 13. Scientists say the meteor traveled into our part of the heavens from the northeast.
The space rock, possibly a late arrival from the recent Leonid meteor shower, also may have created some sonic booms; there were even some unconfirmed reports of car alarms being set off by the cosmic visitor.
No injuries or property damage were reported, but it by all accounts it was quite a show, seen in northern Utah, Idaho and Nevada.
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The photos below are after and before photos from my home surveillance camera showing just how bright the sky was illuminated:
News reports also claim strange circle (almost like con-trails) were seen over Tooele county this morning. The photograph below was observed by me East over the Wasatch early this morning (and to the West over Tooele County), but I also saw the same thing while hiking yesterday around 1400 over Tooele County. I DO NOT believe these strange patterns were resultant from the meteor, as I saw them yesterday -- hours before the meteor explosion:
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