Fireball meteor lights up Missouri and Oklahoma skies

In the quiet hours before dawn on a January Friday, the sky above the Missouri-Oklahoma border briefly became a theater of the cosmos, as a blazing meteor reminded those awake at 3:38 a.m. that Earth moves through a universe still very much in motion. What one homeowner's doorbell camera caught above Joplin became scientific record when satellite instruments confirmed what more than seventy human witnesses had already felt in their bones — that something ancient and indifferent had passed close enough to light up their world. These moments of celestial intrusion ask nothing of us, yet they lea