{"id":82366,"date":"2026-04-22T09:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82366"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:25:26","slug":"mysterious-fireballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/mysterious-fireballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Fireballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">It seems as though stars have been shooting across the heavens far more than usual lately.\u00a0In March, fireball after fireball coursed through the skies of North America and Europe. Some of the dazzling apparitions dropped meteorites in their wake. In Ohio, space shards set down in\u00a0fields and forests. Other rocky visitors\u00a0smashed through\u00a0the roofs\u00a0of people\u2019s homes and ricocheted around their bedrooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s a shooting gallery,\u201d said\u00a0Mike Hankey, an amateur astronomer at the American Meteor Society. \u201cThere\u2019s stuff flying all over the place.\u201d\u00a0The number of fireballs over the first three months of 2026 was double what is usually reported to the society in the first quarter of other years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776849926\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Mysterious Fireballs\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: It seems as though stars have been shooting across the heavens far more than usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82367,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82366\/revisions\/82367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}