A fireball at night, brighter than a full moon - 8.11.2017 at 17.32 Kannus Observation number 68211

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Päivi Peltoniemi, Ursa (Pohjois-Suomi)

I was just about to go cycling and I was on the phone in the yard telling me that there were handsome northern lights and watching them to the north while at the same time looking like a stellar flight every moment after landing fell perpendicular down and brightened really long before it went out. I didn’t sas that phone-modified that flight path but came from the left uphill and then after a while fell straight down. And was by no means very high. S

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Accuracy of the given observation time?
- Maximum of 1 minutes difference possible
How long time did you see the fireball fly in the sky?
- 2 seconds
How the flight of the fireball ended?
- The fireball disappeared suddenly
In which direction the fireball disappeared out of sight?
- North

In which altitude the bolide disappeared from your sight?
- Low near the horizon
Brightness of the fireball
- A fireball at night, brighter than a full moon

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A fireball at night, brighter than a full moon - 8.11.2017 at 17.32 Kannus Observation number 68211