Under unusual conditions, a fireball might appear to rise somewhat as a result of perspective.
In 1794 Chladni, in the memoir already referred to, gave reasons for believing that a meteoritic fireball and a shooting star are only varieties of one phenomenon.
The reports were getting to ATIC, but the green fireball activity was taking top billing and no comments went back to the Army about their little lights.
The lead line was: "Thousands of people saw a huge fireball light up dark New Mexico skies tonight.
As the fireballpassed through the cloud it cut out a perfect swath.
The story went on to tell about how a "blinding green" fireball the size of a full moon had silently streaked southeast across Colorado and northern New Mexico at eight-forty that night.
The fireball activity on the night of December 5 was made to order for plotting flight paths.
But the biggest mystery of all was the fact that no particles of a green fireball had ever been found.
The fireball was so big that the pilot said it looked as if it was only a few hundred feet away.
Just before he swerved the DC-3, the fireball was as big, or bigger, than a full moon.
As far as Blue Book's files were concerned, there hadn't been a green fireball report for a year and a half.
Back at Wright-Patterson AFB, ATIC was getting a blow-by-blow account of thefireball activity but they were taking no direct part in the investigation.
Yet in every case of a green fireball sighting the observers reported that they did not hear any sound.
They would search this area, and if they found parts of a meteorite they would have the answer to the greenfireball riddle.
He used the sighting from Goose AFB, where the fireball had buzzed the C-54 and sent the OD and his driver belly-whopping under the command car as an example.
One of the men, a private pilot, had encountered a fireball one night while he was flying his Navion north of Santa Fe and he had a vivid way of explaining what he'd seen.
The fireball had a two thousand-kay radius, and the piggybacked neutronic dispenser, once the cloud was released by the detonation, would inflict radiation death throughout tens of thousands of kay in all directions.
The fireball looked as huge as the Sun from Venus.
At this point thefireball seemed to plunge downward.
The sound went back across the sky along the path the fireball had followed.
Then one stopped transmitting; in the other screens, there was a rising fireball where she had been.
In the rearview screen, Conn saw a pink fireball blossom far below.
There was another fireballbetween her and the mountain.
In 1777, a fireball shot from the clouds on to the point of the lightning conductor on the Observatory of Padua.
The fireball had struck her on the nape of her neck and had proceeded down her back and left hip, leaving a black mark all along.
Three persons were sitting in the verandah of a house during a storm, when they suddenly saw a fireball travelling past them through the air for a distance of thirty yards or so.
In July, 1902, in the course of a violent storm, and immediately after a loud peal of thunder, a fireball of about the size of a toy balloon was seen to make its appearance suddenly in the Rue Veron at Montmartre.
The little village of Candes, situated by the confluence of the Vienne and the Loire, was the scene of the appearance of a fireball in June, 1897.
In October, 1898, thefireball in question made its appearance in a room and advanced towards a young girl who was seated at the table, her feet hanging down without touching the floor.
On another occasion a fireball fell upon the door of a house, pushed it violently open, and made its way into the kitchen.
At the same moment, the servants saw another fireball cross a garden at the other side of the house, and drop into a small pond.
A fireball fell on a sheaf of barley in the open field without setting it on fire, and buried itself in the ground without doing other further damage.
A nun affirmed that some years before she had seen just such another fireball emerge from the same spot and precipitate itself with a crash against the summit of the tower without doing any damage.
Eventually the fireball made its exit from the room through a keyhole!
An average bright fireball would perhaps measure 5 or 6 feet in diameter.
Then, after the initial flash had passed, one could turn around and view the fireball through the filter glass.
Because it was not known exactly how the flash might affect eyesight, it was suggested that direct viewing of the fireball not be attempted even with this protection.
The recommended procedure was to face away from ground zero and watch the hills or sky until the fireball illuminated the area.
With the exception of a few men holding the ropes of barrage balloons or guiding cameras to follow the fireballas it ascended, all shelter personnel were in or behind the shelters.
As the fireball rises, it expands and cools, producing the distinctive mushroom cloud, signature of nuclear explosions.
The nuclear fireball and the air entrained within it are subjected to great heat, followed by relatively rapid cooling.
Thermal radiation travels outward from the fireball in a straight line; therefore, the amount of energy available to cause flash burns decreases rapidly with distance.
Additionally, all the material that was within the fireball becomes fallout and will be a hazard downwind.
A surface burst is a detonation in which the fireball actually touches and vaporizes the land or water surface.
Close to the fireball all objects will be incinerated.
It will occur only when the fireball is actually in the individual's field of view and should be a relatively uncommon injury.
As soon as we think that they have got to the edge of the trees we will throw a fireball out in that direction, and then let them have it.
Now, Tomkins, light that fireball and heave it over.
This fireball to these mute black cold trains--then Outbreak enough!
The man was sound And sane at starting: all at once the ground Gave way beneath his step, a certain smoke Curled up and caught him, or perhaps down broke A fireball wrapping flesh and spirit both In conflagration.
I'm a moron at physics, but I do know theFireball is bigger than the Place.
In summer and early autumn the long spikes of brilliant flowers produced byFireball and Scarlet Queen make an extremely attractive display, and =S.
There's no concussion in vacuum, and thefireball won't reach here.
The fireball plasma will be full of inhomogeneities moving at several per cent of light speed.
A remarkable feature in the appearance which thisfireball presented was the long persistent streak of luminous cloud, about fifty miles long and four miles wide, which remained in sight for fully fifty minutes.
Then they set to, and by the way they came up, showed how accurate was Fireball Bill’s calculation.
Delivering over the unsuspecting Mendicant with this sound professional but scarcely humane injunction, Fireball Bill gazed after his charge, and scrutinised the leg he suspected him of ‘favouring.
Before the final heat he found Fireball Bill walking the veteran up and down, with a serious and thoughtful countenance.
