A FIREBALL IN OUR DESERT SKIES EARLY MONDAY MORNING

Several Morongo Basin residents reported seeing a fiery meteor streaking through the eastern sky early Monday morning. Arie Mayer of Yucca Valley caught the meteor on her Ring doorbell camera at 2:42 a.m. Monday. The three-second video show the extremely bright meteor—which some residents said appeared to be green in color—lighting up the sky before exploding behind a small hill in the distance. Astronomer Dennis Mammana said the video shows what appears to be a bolide, a fireball that explodes near the end of its trajectory. The greenish color indicates there was magnesium in the fireball, but he said that doesn’t confirm whether the fireball was natural or man-made.