On a mid-December evening, I'm driving on Route 7 in Brooks, headed for Belfast. Up and down those Waldo County hills. Black sky.
Suddenly a knot of white light pops into view over the trees to my left. Distant but bright, I register at the speed of thought. A fireball! But there's no trail. It speeds straight and even and disappears behind the trees on the right in something less than five seconds.
What the heck was that?
Now, I have a fair amount of experience looking at stuff in the sky. ...