Meteor lights up the sky

Scores of people in Maryland and Pennsylvania who lingered outdoors into the early morning hours Monday were startled by the brilliant flash of a meteor that soared over the Mid-Atlantic states.

Many more were rattled in their beds by the sonic boom that followed the flash. Sam Luther witnessed both events from a camp on the Susquehanna River near Delta, Pa.

"We were sitting by the campfire on the river talking when the entire sky lit up for 3-5 seconds," he said in a post to TheBaltimore Sun's Weather Blog. "It was as if it were daylight outside. ... Approximately 60-90 seconds after the sky had lit up, we heard a thunderous series of sonic boom sounds accompanied by tremors."

Both phenomena were almost certainly caused by the entry of a relatively large meteor into the Earth's atmosphere. To produce a fireball bright enough to attract widespread attention, geologists say, the meteor would have to be perhaps a few yards in diameter.

Based on readers' descriptions, the object flew roughly south to north over Central Maryland and southern Pennsylvania before vaporizing about 1:10 a.m.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-md.meteor07jul07,0,2101919.story

Dam I missed it by 2 hours

The water company captured it on their security camera

http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_12790056

Also, my youngest Son is on a mission to find a piece of the meteor.

up to 1000.00 per ounce, if found, hell I might talk a walk through the area.