2023-11-16 20:00:00
Written by Amira Shehata Thursday, November 16, 2023 10:00 PM Residents of Minnesota reported seeing a bright flash and a loud sonic boom in the sky over Beltrami County, and now a NASA astronomer and a professor of astrophysics are working on this issue, as NASA analyzes footage from one of the airports. I captured a “horizontal” line of an object across the sky as the boom shook windows and houses. According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, a meteorite specialist believes that the object was the size of a refrigerator and struck the atmosphere at a speed ranging between 30,000 to 130,000 miles per hour. As for the sonic boom, it was too close to Earth to be considered a meteorite. “I still don’t know what it is, but I was fairly confident that it couldn’t be a meteorite,” Professor Juan Cabanilla shared in the email. Aside from local witnesses to the bright flash and loud sound, Beltrami County Emergency Management Director Chris Mueller obtained three videos, the first of which was a security video from a private residence in Nemours, south of Lake Bemidji. The video clearly shows a very bright white/blue flash above the sky, followed by a loud bang 2.95 seconds later, Mueller said. The second video, which came from Bemidji Regional Airport about four miles northwest of Nemours, shows what appears to be a very fast white line running through the airport. “This video was provided to an astronomer and a NASA scientist,” Mueller said. “They analyzed the video frame by frame and determined that the object was too horizontal to indicate it was a meteorite,” he added, explaining, “It has not been determined whether the two videos are related.” Beltrami County Emergency Management is also exploring the possibility of a transformer explosion in the power grid, but local utilities have yet to report such an incident days later.
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