{"id":541401,"date":"2026-03-24T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541401\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:25:08","slug":"meteor-lights-up-northern-california-skies-as-ams-confirms-3rd-fireball-in-six-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541401\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor lights up Northern California skies as AMS confirms 3rd fireball in six days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A green fireball streaked across Northern California&#8217;s skies.<\/p>\n<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 A green fireball lit up the skies of Northern California overnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The American Meteor Society (AMS) confirmed the giant fireball was a meteor, specifically one of three meteorite falls in the last six days. This includes a meteorite in Ohio last Tuesday and one in Houston, Texas on March 21.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Hankey, with AMS, said they had over 200 reports, many with sonic booms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AMS shared video of the meteor captured through their allsky cameras in the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sG2AwYNuWrE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Green meteor spotted over California<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A green fireball streaked across Northern California&#8217;s skies. SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 A green fireball lit up the skies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-541401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541401","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=541401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}