Second fireball in a week lights up Washington skies
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Key Points:
- Cameras in Olympia, Washington, captured a bright fireball streaking across the sky early Tuesday morning, marking the second such event in western Washington within a week.
- The incident occurred around 12:15 a.m. and was recorded from multiple angles, showing a bright green flash with a glowing orange tail.
- Witnesses described the fireball as extremely bright, with colors ranging from light yellow to white during the terminal flash, and noted no visible fragmentation.
- The event coincided with "May the Fourth," an informal holiday celebrating the Star Wars franchise, adding cultural interest to the astronomical occurrence.
- According to NASA astronomers, meteors are space rocks that burn up upon entering Earth's atmosphere, with especially bright ones classified as fireballs.
