{"id":128953,"date":"2026-01-11T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128953\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:06:09","slug":"fireball-seen-across-the-sky-in-southern-california-on-saturday-night-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128953\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireball seen across the sky in Southern California on Saturday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fireball was seen streaking across the sky in Southern California on Saturday night!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ABC7 director Mike Gilbert captured video of the fireball from our studios in Glendale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsmeteors.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:American Meteor Society;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">American Meteor Society<\/a> confirmed the sighting was definitely a fireball, and not a rocket launch or satellite entry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fireball is a meteor brighter than any star or planet in the sky. While normal meteors or &#8220;shooting stars&#8221; totally disintegrate while still high in the atmosphere, fireballs can produce fragments on the ground called meteorites, though it is extremely rare.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The American Meteor Society said it received over 30 reports after the sighting, but noted it actually receives about 100 reports of fireballs each day from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As common as they are, experts say most people only see a few of them in their lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fireball was seen streaking across the sky in Southern California on Saturday night! ABC7 director Mike Gilbert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[52284,7,9,8,66446,24843,1009],"class_list":{"0":"post-128953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-american-meteor-society","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-mike-gilbert","13":"tag-saturday-night","14":"tag-southern-california"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}