Top 5 Spectacular Meteor Sightings

Every so often, the Planet Earth gets hit by meteors and asteroids. It's rare that these events are caught on video, but when they are its spectacular to watch! This is our list of the top five spectacular meteor sightings.

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[theminutemen]

I love how when a meteor is on your sight at night, it suddenly turns into day.

[ShadowSpacez]

1:07 ..

That meteor was beautiful ... But can we all just admire how fuckin clear this guys camera is ?? .. lol that's like 720p HD

[MikeJones-bmwu]

This music really put me at peace during a potentially dangerous situation.

[turkeybot]

Us: holy sh** is the end of the world runnnn

Russians when they see it: hello there meteor

[statusd]

bro when the meteor's appear and when the sky lights up blue it looks like amazing art

[SanMateoCountyRoleplay]

If I saw a meteor I would probably think we were getting nuked

[MaGiCMushroomClouds]

I was a tyrannosaurus in one of my past lives. This video gave me PTSD.

[lancelorio]

I saw one of these in the Caribbean late at night and it was a once in a lifetime sight. Had no clue what just happened and I finally found a video of what it looked like

[just_meh]

I've seen a swear, its the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life. I even saw the flares....red, green & blue. I thought it was a firefly but then it got closer & just so

[LucienKreische]

I love the fact it looks like it changes to day as it passes by

[zacharymabb]

It shines bright enough to seem like a 2nd sun!

[Eratiik]

This reminds me of this one night back in high school, me and a group of my mates (who I still keep in contact with) drove down to our local beach at around 5pm, we decided to start a big fire and get stoned like we always did. A few hours go by and before we knew, it was 10pm, just hitting curfew for our licence limitations, So we decided to bury the fire to put it out, empty the bongs and get walking back to the car, on our way back under the stars we were walking single file back so we didn’t trip over all the drift wood in the dark, as we got about 30feet from our mates car two of us saw a bright green streak go across the sky behind the small patch of cloud and disappeared like it was nothing. We didn’t say anything to each other until we started driving.

“Hey...back when we were walking, did anyone see that bright gre-“

“Green line in the sky? Like someone ran their finger over the top of icing of a cake, yeah I did.”

Just as I was about to reply we saw another bright green streak directly in front of us, from out of sight above us to directly down below the horizon. Two of the bros brushed it off like it was nothing, me and my bro who saw it earlier were flipping out we had seen TWO bright green streaks in the sky exactly the same looking. It was literally one of the most beautiful lights I had seen. The mark they left after flying passed was amazing then just to watch it fade from the end of the tail to the other end was cool too. The green was such an amazing glow (almost like the aurora green colour) and it lit the small patch of cloud that was hanging around too so it looked so good. I wish I had taken a picture, it would definitely had been a beautiful one, especially how the brightness accentuated the dark hills and trees off in the distance.

[drewyardley]

That meteor at 1:20 was in New Zealand. I didn't see it but I heard it as many people did, it was damn loud!

[kohlt]

Back in 2004-2005, our family took a trip to northern Arkansas. One night we were out trolling (fishing) on the lake, and my brother and I were absolutely terrified of this purple, green, yellow, blue ball coming at us from the heavens. The whole encounter took about 10 minutes in total, our family thought it was absolutely hysterical.

[kunal_nandurkar]

Stop the video, and then click 1:20-1:21 . Best Sight. Love to all.

[DonaldMcLemore-nd]

That last one, thank god that was just a meteor strike. Hollywood has not done justice to the majesty of a meteor.

[paulcole]

One without an unnecessary narrator... Finally!

[billgatesleavingyamomshous]

Awesome. So bright it's like Daytime

[MrBryantsx]

Wow. I love the way the clouds glow so bright! Only seen one decent green streaking meteor outside of a meteor shower I saw about 10 tiny ones

[piperperry]

Love it when the meteor is about to strike and the sky lights up blue like its day time