"In Occidental, artisan vendor Jessy McGibbons was packing up her booth at the farmers market when the crowd began pointing skyward. Last time everybody made the same noise because of a double rainbow, so I immediately looked up at the sky, she said. She saw a glowing ball streak across the sky, pulled out her phone and began recording. It was only my second time as a vendor. Last time it was a double rainbow and then it was a meteor show. What are we gonna see next time?"
"In Cloverdale, Matt Kellogg and his family were celebrating his father's 72nd birthday when his niece spotted the glow. We saw this blazing sort of fireball going from west to east, almost straight across the sky, Kellogg said. It was wild. He described the object as bright and sparkling, with fragments breaking off. His son, Theo, caught a video, though Kellogg said the recording didn't do it justice. The sight reminded him of the way the Autobots arrive on Earth in the Transformers movies. I've never seen anything like it before, he said."
A bright, fiery object streaked across Northern California around 7:45 p.m., sparking eyewitness reports from Sonoma County to the Sacramento region. Experts said the spectacle was likely not a natural meteor. The Aerospace Corp. predicted several Starlink satellites would reenter Earth's atmosphere that night. NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office did not immediately respond to inquiries. Dozens of people reported seeing a glowing, sparkling trail with fragments breaking off; some captured video that witnesses said did not fully convey the sight. Reports came from Occidental, Cloverdale, Rocklin, Shingle Springs, Salida and the broader Sacramento area.
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