A blue-green fireball streaked across the Pacific Northwest sky just before 1 a.m.
The Kitsap Sun's own coverage places a sighting within the county itself, part of a reporting footprint that stretched from the Puget Sound region east through Yakima and Spokane Valley to Wenatchee, Blaine and Port Angeles.
Lunsford, speaking to reporters within hours of the event, estimated the object's speed at around 25 miles per second, nearly triple NASA's calculated figure.
Why NASA Says This Wasn't a Perseid The timing invited an obvious assumption.
That level of surviving debris is itself informative, since it means enough of the object's mass made it through fragmentation and deceleration to fall as identifiable rock rather than burning away entirely.
A blue-green fireball lit up skies from Chimacum to Spokane just before 1 a.m. Friday. NASA's tracking data shows a 170-pound object breaking apart with the force of 10 tons of TNT — and says it wasn't even part of the Perseids.