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LeonB on March 16, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

Good chance it would’ve been seen by a bunch of people and mentioned in the local newspapers of the time too.

I often look for things at trove — but I think that might be too recent for trove to have the relevant newspaper articles available.

Here’s an example of an advanced search there:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/newspapers...

(For meteor and newcastle between 1975 and 1987)

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LeonB on March 16, 2023 [–]

For older time periods such as the 1950s - where trove does index the newspapers — it’s very easy to find reports of meteors and bright lights —

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/newspapers...

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