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Footage Shows Meteor Falling Over St. Louis And Burning up

An outdoor camera captures footage of a meteor fireball burning up in the sky over St. Louis. Dozens of people have reported seeing the meteor at around 11:40 am on Monday morning. St. Louis Today reports: Reports on social media surfaced about the sight, described by some as as a flash that fell from the sky and disappeared a couple hundred feet above the horizon. Tom Stolze, who runs the website Ofallonweather.org posted a video of a bright light falling in the sky to the northwest of an outdoor camera in O’Fallon, Mo. As of Monday night, the American Meteor Society received 77 reports of a fireball seen over Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas and Kentucky. Several of those reports were in the St. Louis area. “It looked like one of the more expensive fireworks shooting down instead of up. I could have sworn it landed in the field I was driving by!” one report from Wendelin, Ill., in the eastern part of the state, said on the society site. One person saw the flash above Berkeley: “I saw a streak of white light followed by a burst of yellow/orange before the object disappeared,” he wrote. Post-Dispatch reporter Valerie Schremp Hahn was [...]