What Was That Fireball in the Sky Over L.A.?
A fireball was streaking across the Los Angeles sky the other day, so people started thinking it was a meteor or an alien invasion. No such luck. It was a…
UNKNOWN – JANUARY 15: In this handout photo provided by NASA/Ames Research Center, the Stardust Capsule Return is seen from NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Laboratory with a mission to explore the conditions during reentry from the light emitted by the fireball caused when the capsule streaked through the sky January 15, 2005. The aircraft was located near the end of the trajectory, just outside of UTTR. The participating researchers are from NASA Ames, the SETI Institute, the University of Alaska, Utah State University, Lockheed Martin, U.S. Air Force Academy, the University of Kobe (Japan), and Stuttgart University (Germany). (Photo by NASA/Ames Research Center via Getty Images)
(Photo by NASA/Ames Research Center via Getty Images)A fireball was streaking across the Los Angeles sky the other day, so people started thinking it was a meteor or an alien invasion. No such luck.
It was a film shoot by Red Bull. They dropped a couple of skydivers in wingsuits from a helicopter at 4,000 feet . . . and their suits were fitted with "LED lights and sparking pyrotechnics."
