Around 4 am this morn , masses near Phoenix and Tucson , Arizona were treated to a loud gold rush and flash of blinding spark as some sort of space dust intersect with Earth ’s atmosphere . The APreportedthat the possible meteor or meteorites may have landed by the nearby town of Cibecue .
The event is not believed to be part of ameteor showerrather but a chance collision between Earth ’s orbit and some errant space debris . Surveillance footage and video from mass who occur to be filming the normally sales talk - black road of pre - dawn Arizonasurfacedon social media , illustrate the chroma of the blink of an eye .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/738374464442765312
Those who were n’t quick enough to catch the boom itself snapped photo of the trails of ionised air travel left behind in the sky .
In the northeasterly sky , here ’s the trail from what seemed to be a meteor.pic.twitter.com/tQIaOpBGLI
— Arizona DOT ( @ArizonaDOT)June 2 , 2016
The effect was best summarize in the video below with a elementary idiomatic expression : “ Holy fuckin ’ poop . ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-KED81DO5c
[ Reddit , AP , Tuscon News Now ]
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