{"id":426835,"date":"2026-05-01T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/426835\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:12:09","slug":"bright-meteor-streaks-through-northern-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/426835\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Meteor Streaks Through Northern Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of flashes of light across the night sky are being attributed to a fireball.<\/p>\n<p>The International Meteor Organization says it was a brighter than usual meteor.<\/p>\n<p>The Organization, which tracks such reports, notes sightings started at around 9:30 Wednesday night across southern Manitoba, northwestern Ontario, Minnesota and into Wisconsin and Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>One person from the Rainy River-Baudette, Minnesota area tells CKDR News that they heard a loud explosion sound and then witnessed a flash of light in the sky like lightning.<\/p>\n<p>To view a sumitted video, visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/video.nest.com\/clip\/9039401132be455698579b4f757e40c0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/video.nest.com\/clip\/9039401132be455698579b4f757e40c0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports of flashes of light across the night sky are being attributed to a fireball. The International Meteor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-426835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}