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Fireball spotted over south Louisiana
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Key Points:
- A bright fireball was observed streaking across the skies of south Louisiana shortly after 5 a.m. on June 28, with sightings reported across multiple southern states including Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas.
- The fireball was captured on multiple cameras in the Sky9 network, with the clearest footage from Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge, while other cameras recorded the bright flash illuminating the pre-dawn sky.
- According to the American Meteor Society, a fireball is an exceptionally bright meteor with a visual magnitude of -3 or brighter, caused by larger space debris entering the Earth's atmosphere.
- Viewer-submitted videos from security and doorbell cameras in Denham Springs and St. Francisville confirmed the fireball’s appearance, mostly in the eastern or southeastern sky.
- There is no indication that the fireball survived its passage through the atmosphere to reach the ground.
