Brilliant green and blue fireball illuminates Pacific Northwest skies

In the late hours over Washington state, a meteor blazing green and blue carved a brief but unforgettable arc across the Pacific Northwest sky, witnessed by thousands from Seattle to the Inland Northwest. It was one of those rare moments when the cosmos interrupts the ordinary — when something vast and indifferent to human affairs briefly becomes the shared focus of an entire region. Security cameras and phone footage preserved what eyes alone might have doubted, and scientists now look to that collective documentation to better understand what passes through our skies unseen on quieter nights