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"Last night around 8 P.M., residents of Southern California spotted what seemed to be a ball of fire shooting across the sky. The unexpected light show was the result of a meteor shower, say authorities. Locals who caught a glimpse of the foreign matter originally confused it with a plane or fireworks. &amp;quot;I saw this big, greenish flash light up the sky,&amp;quot; described Matthew Isaacs. &amp;quot;It was headed pretty sideways from like, east to west. I thought, &amp;#039;Is that a firework?&amp;#039; And then I realized, that couldn&amp;#039;t be that big.&amp;quot; The objects were most likely linked to the South Taurids meteoroid streams, says the National Weather Service. These showers span from September to November and are characterized by particularly bright, fireball-like meteors. Sightings were also reported in Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Texas. In related news, scientists recently published reports about the giant meteor that exploded last February in Chelyabinsk, Russia.They concluded that extra-terrestrial objects may land on earth roughly much more frequently than previously believed. &amp;quot;We should see something like Chelyabinsk every 30 to 40 years rather than every 120 to 140, so a factor of three or four more of these impacts than the telescopic data suggest,&amp;quot; said Peter Brown, one of the study&amp;#039;s lead authors. Did you spot anything in the sky last night? Let us know in the comments. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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