{"id":262008,"date":"2025-10-31T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262008\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:56:09","slug":"apparent-meteor-shoots-over-downtown-milwaukee-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262008\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparent meteor shoots over downtown Milwaukee: video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/660A020F1BB65886B800AF6C941295CA-0-1761864642223.jpg\" alt=\"Apparent meteor shoots over downtown Milwaukee\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">MILWAUKEE &#8211; Did you see it, too? A FOX6 News tower camera captured an apparent meteor shooting over downtown Milwaukee on Wednesday night, Oct. 29. It happened around 10:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsmeteors.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">American Meteor Society<\/a> is a nonprofit that observes and collects information about meteors and related phenomona. While not confirmed, the organization notes it has a pending report of a fireball in Milwaukee around that time \u2013 one of dozens of pending reports from around Wisconsin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A meteor is a streak of light that appears in the sky when a small piece of space debris, often called a meteoroid, enters Earth\u2019s atmosphere and burns up due to friction.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/foxlocal.onelink.me\/6abq\/ijh6elyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FREE DOWNLOAD: Get breaking news alerts in the FOX LOCAL Mobile app for iOS or Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">These bright flashes are sometimes known as &#8220;shooting stars,&#8221; though they\u2019re not stars at all. If a meteor survives its fiery journey and lands on Earth\u2019s surface, it\u2019s called a meteorite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: FOX6 Weather Experts produced information in this post.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/tag\/science\/air-space\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air and Space<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/tag\/us\/wi\/milwaukee-county\/milwaukee\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE &#8211; Did you see it, too? A FOX6 News tower camera captured an apparent meteor shooting over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[40426,8263,53324,79,193,25,2986,12440],"class_list":["post-262008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-air-space","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-county","tag-science","tag-space","tag-us","tag-weather","tag-wi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}