See huge meteor lighting up sky in Redding
A video captured a large meteor lighting up the sky in Redding on Nov. 4, 2022.
The footage, caught on Ring doorbell video, was posted Tuesday by video licensee ViralHog with a caption from the resident that said:
“While looking at a cat on our fence, which is what triggered the ring video, I saw a bright light in the background heading towards the ground.”
The Redding meteor sighting coincides with another one in Northern California that raised eyebrows on Nov. 4.
A house that caught fire that night in rural Nevada County was initially believed by some to have been hit by a meteorite. It wasn’t, fire officials determined.
“I am very confident that a rock from space did not hit this house,” Clayton Thomas, a captain at the Penn Valley Fire Protection District, told The Sacramento Bee on Monday.
That night, a flash of light from a large meteor hitting the atmosphere was seen for hundreds of miles across Northern California.
However, the estimated trajectory put the meteor 200 miles away from the house in Penn Valley, Robert Lunsford, the fireball report coordinator for the American Meteor Society, told The Bee.
Redding is about 150 miles northwest of Penn Valley.
This story was originally published November 16, 2022 at 12:48 PM.
