Gaze Upon That Fire Show

Enjoying a quiet, cool Friday (11-7-14) night on the cockpit of the boat, JT saw a meteor shooting across the sky at 8:14pm central time zone at 233.5 degrees (over Clear Lake Shores-Kemah area) from the boat about 1000 feet (30 degrees) in the air.  He yelled down at me in the cabin to come see.  

As I threw open the cover, I saw two yellowish white lights hovering high in the sky.  Are they helicopters? No.  

They moved to the east & west slightly. Two more broke out from them showing four burning objects falling to the ground.  One began a fiery spiral, helix, to the ground, while the remaining three still lingered in the dark night sky.  I stood on the cabin steps for a couple minutes not wanting to miss a second. Another fell off to the west in a fiery spiral again and it's light finally died out close to the ground.  

JT yelled to get his cell phone.  I grabbed the phone, and he started recording when the last two fiery objects died out.  Too late.  But oh what a spectacular fiery meteor show it was for us.

From the Andromedid Meteor Shower, American Meteor Society says a giant fireball reported in Texas the next night on November 8, 2014, possibly 4,000 pounds.
Andromedid location: (Celestial Position of Shower is RA (degree) + Dec =01:32 (023) +30) is a Class III, entering velocity at 17 km/sec. 

• No sound was heard. 
• approximate viewing location was 29° 33'N, 95°1.7'W.

Keep our heads up and pray that we are not in its way.

Back in March 1997, I remember seeing Hale-Bopp comet in the western South Carolina night sky, such a beautiful thing with its long tail and unforgettable sighting like these meteors were.