{"id":232682,"date":"2026-03-23T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/232682\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:26:08","slug":"videos-show-bright-fireball-over-northern-california-sky-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/232682\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos show bright fireball over Northern California sky Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large meteor lit up the skies over Northern California over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>The meteor started streaking across the sky a little after 8 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>As captured by several videos and described in numerous reports, the meteor streaked for around five seconds and burned bright green.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/meteor.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"meteor.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The March 22 meteor as captured by Vacaville resident Christopher Vigil&#8217;s camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Christopher Vigil<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 people reported seeing a fireball around that time, <a href=\"https:\/\/fireball.amsmeteors.org\/members\/imo_view\/event\/2026\/2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the American Meteor Society<\/a>, with most sightings in California and others in Arizona and Nevada. Several videos of the apparent meteor were shared with the organization and posted on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/meteors-meteorites\/meteor-showers\/#featuredmeteorshowers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">No known meteor showers<\/a> \u2013 periods where meteor activity spikes \u2013 were going on at the time of Sunday&#8217;s event, with the Lyrids being the next expected active meteor shower starting on April 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large meteor lit up the skies over Northern California over the weekend. The meteor started streaking across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,31111,6799],"class_list":["post-232682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-meteor","tag-vacaville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232682","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=232682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}