{"id":402855,"date":"2023-12-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=402855"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Meteor-sighting-in-the-Marianas-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Meteor-sighting-in-the-Marianas-over-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor sighting in the Marianas over the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service confirms that what seemed to be a severe lighting flash last Saturday morning was actually a meteor passing through the Marianas\u2019 skies.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, CNMI Homeland Security and Emergency Management held a press conference to address the \u201clighting sighting that shook windows\u201d reports that both they and Department of Public Safety received at around 12am last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to HSEM, at around 12:10am on Saturday morning, DPS received a call from a Kagman resident regarding a bright, flashing light from the sky followed by a loud \u201cbang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The State Warning Point also received a separate call were community members reported that the \u201cbang\u201d shook some windows and doors<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we connected with the NWS from Guam to get more information about it,\u201d said HSEM spokesperson Bernard Villagomez.<\/p>\n<p>According to NWS\u2019 Patrick Doll, he said that after reviewing the footage caught by members of the Marianas community, NWS can confirm that the sighting was not lighting but rather a meteor sighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the videos we received, we believe it to be a meteorite. I can confirm it was a definite meteorite,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dolls said he is unsure when the last meteor sighting in the Marianas happened.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/f496a208a940bc62f59fce1e751f8c5f.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo shows a screen grab from a Facebook post of a purported meteor sighting last Saturday morning over Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service confirms that what seemed to be a severe lighting flash last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}