{"id":20083,"date":"2015-12-18T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/meteor-fireball-terrorizes-georgia-residents-nasa-confirms-asteroid-chunk-flying-near-atlanta-other-sightings"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:23:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:23:03","slug":"meteor-fireball-terrorizes-georgia-residents-nasa-confirms-asteroid-chunk-flying-near-atlanta-other-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/meteor-fireball-terrorizes-georgia-residents-nasa-confirms-asteroid-chunk-flying-near-atlanta-other-sightings","title":{"rendered":"Meteor Fireball Terrorizes Georgia Residents: NASA Confirms Asteroid Chunk Flying Near Atlanta, Other Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/images.starpulse.com\/news\/bloggers\/1340985\/blog_images\/meteor-sighting.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t panic.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the dolphins start leaving the planet.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, by all mean panic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you saw a fireball streaking across the skies of Georgia and other parts of the Southeast Thursday night, you\u2019re not alone. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.11alive.com\/story\/news\/local\/mcdonough\/2015\/12\/17\/nasa-meteor-confirmed-fragments-possible-south-atlanta\/77523996\/\" title=\"NASA Meteor Sightings Georgia\" target=\"_blank\">NASA confirmed meteor sightings<\/a> near Atlanta and other parts of southern states. No, it\u2019s not Doomsday, the end of the world, and it wasn\u2019t a UFO or signs of extraterrestrial visitors.<\/p>\n<p>According to an <em>11 Alive<\/em> story, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) said six of its <em>ALL Sky Fireball Network<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/whnt.com\/2015\/12\/17\/nasa-sky-meteor-cameras-capture-images-of-fireball-over-the-southeast-thursday-evening\/\" title=\"Meteor fireball over southeast skies\" target=\"_blank\">cameras detected the meteor<\/a> about 6:33 p.m. Reports of sightings came in from Georgia residents and motorists near Henry County.<\/p>\n<p>NASA Meteoroid Environments Office spokesperson, Bill Cooke, said the meteor spotted over Georgia traveled about 50 miles above McDonough, a town located south and east of Atlanta.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/meteor-fireball-terrorizes-georgia-residents-nasa-confirms-asteroid-chunk-flying-near-atlanta-other-sightings\">Continue reading \u201cMeteor Fireball Terrorizes Georgia Residents: NASA Confirms Asteroid Chunk Flying Near Atlanta, Other Sightings\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t panic. Unless the dolphins start leaving the planet. At that point, by all mean panic. If you saw a fireball streaking across the skies of Georgia and other parts of the Southeast Thursday night, you\u2019re not alone. NASA confirmed meteor sightings near Atlanta and other parts of southern states. No, it\u2019s not Doomsday, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44873,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions\/44873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}