Portland Police Officer Captures Meteor On Dashcam

A meteor heading for earth was caught on a Portland police officer’s dashcam hurtling through the sky over Maine on Tuesday. The fast moving piece of space rock is seen burning up in the atmosphere in a massive bright fireball and then disappearing beyond the horizon. Sputnik reports: The footage was captured on the dashcam of Sergeant Tim Farris, just before 1:00 AM, and was shared on the department’s Facebook page in a post with the hashtag #StarWars: “You never know what you are going to see on duty. Sgt. Farris was looking for speeders while parked in front of the central fire station and was able to observe some visitors ‘from away’….far away. The meteor (or alien spaceship) was caught on camera at approximately 0050 hours. Let’s hope the visitors are friendly. They could just be some of Stephen King’s friends on their way to visit him. Whom ever they are I’m sure we could win them over with a whoopie pie.” The spectacular footage was reposted on the website of the American Meteor Society, pulling so much traffic that it crashed their website. New Photo (+ video & map) of the #Fireball caught on May 17 over Northeastern US.. https://t.co/9sl1NJ9fDD #meteor pic.twitter.com/SpJ0cSGwDx — AMSMETEORS (@amsmeteors) May 17, 2016 By dawn, [...]