# Northern Lights Happening Starting Friday Night (May 10) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 10, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-lights-happening-starting-friday-night-may-10/1001363 "2024-05-10T13:41:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 91
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-lights-happening-starting-friday-night-may-10/1001363/91 "2024-05-12T18:39:09Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I was riding my bicycle around 8am when there was a massive fireball in the sky. It was up about one or two thousand feet, I guess, descending in a sort of leisurely shower of flame for a few hundred feet. There was no sound. If a meteor was still a visible fireball ([bolide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolide)), that would mean that it was still traveling at hypersonic speeds. If it was one or two thousand feet up, it would have passed by you in a fraction of a second, and you would have possibly had your internal organs turned to jelly by the shockwave. Think Chelyabinsk (which shattered windows and set off car alarms) but much, much closer. If you saw a bolide, it was tens of miles up. (There is a [similar thread in FQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-9-in-1967-and-i-think-i-saw-a-huge-asteroid-in-the-sky/501122/) where I stomp on cherished childhood memories in a 2017 bump.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-lights-happening-starting-friday-night-may-10/1001363)._