Posted: Apr 18, 2017 11:43 pm
I think possibly the brightest meteor I ever saw was while driving north on I35 from San Antonio towards Austin. It was close to a town, and I kinda saw over some of those big gre3en signs they use for freeways, I assume this is fairly similar for the US. The signs were't all that close, but there was of course a lot of traffic coming the other way on the freeway and quite a few bright lights from the town, and it was directly in front of me--saw it through the upper half of the windshield, very bright looking despite all the other light. I only saw it briefly, I can only wonder how bright it would have looked if it was in dark skies and my eyes dark adapted. It was enough of a display, I was sure it would make the papers and it got a brief mention in The Austin American-Statesman.