Was watching TV, heard a gigantic boom. Louder than thunder, except maybe the loudest thunder you’d here. And out of nowhere.
I honestly thought someone dropped something off a roof or managed to slam a gigantic door in a way that echoed.
Timestamp in-video is wrong, apparently. Nuts.
I hope you don’t go extinct! 
Look out for blob and/or andromeda strains.
Crazy. I saw something just like that in Germany circa 1999? 2000? 2001? I don’t recall it hitting the ground, though. Wild.
A meteor hit my car once. Wish I had video, or the meteor, or some evidence of any kind.
it’s awesome people we able to film it!
Remember how Steve McQueen killed the blob?
If there’s a blob inside that meteor, it’s not going to enjoy our current weather.
[pedantic mode on] Meteorite. Meteors burn up before they hit Earth objects.[/pedantic mode]
That would explain that loud sound a couple hours ago I couldn’t identify.
I don’t understand how *anyone *in MI can enjoy the current weather.
If you’re going to be pedantic, you really need to get it right:)
When an object from space creates a streak of light across the sky, that is called a meteor. This was indeed a video of a meteor.
If a meteor makes it to the ground (and from news reports I’ve seen so far, there’s no evidence yet that this one did), that’s a meteorite.
We saw a meteor. We may or may not find a meteorite.
What did God say after he tried to destroy Detroit?
“God dammit, I missed!”
Family Guy, Godzilla attacks Haiti:
Shot of smoking ruins of wrecked city. Camera pans back, turns, Godzilla is just now emerging from the sea. Looks at city. “Oh. Oh my god.” Godzilla backs away slowly.
Apologies, samclem, I just noticed that you were responding to a specific post about a “meteor” hitting a car. You were correct in your pedantry. (Although a meteor doesn’t necessarily burn up, it’s the description of a phase; the “shooting star” meteor phase may or may not reach the ground as a meteorite.)
Since we’re doing movie references…
Don’t touch any meteorites, or you may get a case of the weeds.
I with we had single digit(Fahrenheit) all winter long!
Was driving in Holland (about three hours west of Detroit) tonight and thought I saw lightning between the light snow that was falling, but it didn’t come from anywhere in particular. The flash was so faint, in fact, that I figured I just imagined it. Then about 10 minutes ago I saw reports popping up on social media about a meteor.
Before clicking on the story, I said to myself “Self, if this was reported to have happened between 8:10 and 8:30, that flash you saw may not have been your imagination.”
Sure enough, they’re saying it happened around 8:15. Is it possible I saw the flash from this 150 miles away from the action?
I can’t be certain (because I’m lazy), but I think my house got hit by a tiny meteorite (or maybe a chunk of ice from an airplane).
One day, I heard a loud “BANG” and then a “rolling” sound. Didn’t do anything about it.
Later that year, while hanging Christmas lights, found a hole in the roof, right over the soffit, that penetrated the roof but didn’t go through the next layer, but did leave a pretty good dent.
Well, that would explain both sounds! Bang through the roof, then the rolling down to the bottom of the roof inside the hollow soffit.
I need to cut the underside of the soffit and stick a small camera in there to see what kind of extraterrestrial beings/objects I have living in my roof.
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And then kill them.
{Radio tuning noises}…the Department of Agriculture is predicting a bumper crop …{radio tuning noises}
Watchout for any sudden and prolific “plant” growth
Cool!
The actual meteorites are highly prized by museums. I remember a case in the 1990s in IIRC Pennsylvania where not only was the flash caught on a camcorder, but it struck a young woman’s car, and a museum paid her more than enough to replace that car although I’m assuming her insurance did pay a claim.