{"id":806970,"date":"2026-08-08T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/806970\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:56:10","slug":"possible-montgomery-illinois-meteor-explosion-reported-american-meteor-society-to-make-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/806970\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Montgomery, Illinois meteor explosion reported; American Meteor Society to make determination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, August 8, 2026 12:44PM<\/p>\n<p>ABC7 received calls from several viewers about a possible meteor in Kane County on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>WLS<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MONTGOMERY, Ill. (WLS) &#8212; ABC7 received calls from several viewers about a possible meteor in Kane County on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video from Montgomery captured a bright flash in the sky.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ABC7 asked the Adler Planetarium what it could have been.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They say it could be a type of meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">However, it could take a few days for the American Meteor Society to make a determination.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Saturday, August 8, 2026 12:44PM ABC7 received calls from several viewers about a possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[342524,342519,342521,342522,342517,342518,342523,342516,342520,342514,342513,342515,79,193],"class_list":["post-806970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-342524","tag-august-meteor-shower","tag-chicago-meteor","tag-did-a-meteor-hit-earth-today","tag-illinois-meteor","tag-meteor-chicago","tag-meteor-explosion","tag-meteor-illinois","tag-meteor-shower-what-time","tag-montgomery-il","tag-montgomery-illinois","tag-montgomery-news","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806970","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=806970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}