更新于：2026年3月25日 / 美国东部时间上午6:36 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
杰森·詹金斯（Jason Jenkins）在黎明前开车上班时，一道明亮的绿色光带划过天空。
他仪表盘上的摄像头在周一早上6:06记录下了这一幕，当时他位于华盛顿州西南部，距离俄勒冈州波特兰市以北约20英里处。起初他以为可能是彗星，但随后认为它太近了，不可能是彗星。
“它有点让我想起雷击，因为它太亮了，”他说，”视频无法完全展现它看起来有多亮、多近。”
据波特兰俄勒冈科学与工业博物馆称，詹金斯看到的是一个火球——一种特别明亮的流星，在地球上空80英里处仍可见。
一段视频捕捉到一颗流星划过太平洋西北地区的天空。杰森·詹金斯 / 美联社
近几天，美国多地天空中都观测到了火球。
据哥伦比亚广播公司萨克拉门托报道，上周末，一颗明显的流星照亮了加利福尼亚州北部的天空，该地区数百名目击者报告了这一现象。
上周，一颗7吨重的流星以火球形式划过俄亥俄州天空，解体时发出雷鸣般的爆炸声，吓坏了担心发生爆炸的居民。美国宇航局表示，来自10个州、华盛顿特区和加拿大安大略省的目击者报告看到了这一火球。
“它的一些碎片，一些微小的部分，实际上降落到了地面，”美国宇航局流星体环境办公室主任比尔·库克（Bill Cooke）告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
根据美国宇航局的说法，周六，一颗以每小时35,000英里速度飞行的流星在休斯顿以北解体，陨石最初重约1吨，直径3英尺。该机构表示，解体产生的爆炸声被当地一些人听到，一名居民告诉当地电视频道ABC13，一块陨石碎片砸穿了她的屋顶。
博物馆表示，像詹金斯看到的这种绿色火球通常是由于镁的存在，镁在地球大气层中受热蒸发时会发出明亮的蓝绿色光，镍也可能造成绿色。
博物馆太空科学教育主任吉姆·托德（Jim Todd）表示，它在黑暗的清晨天空中的高度使其被广泛看见。
“它很亮，是绿色的，非常壮观，”他周一说，”一小块岩石今天早上上演了如此精彩的一幕。”
通过视频和其他人的目击报告，有可能确定火球的移动方向以及是否降落在地球表面。托德说，大多数情况下，火球与地球接触的情况很少见，而且一旦发生，很难定位。
“即使它确实幸存下来，它看起来也像一块普通的日常岩石，几乎不可能找到，除非它击中了房屋、街道或留下碎片，”他说。
他补充说，随着越来越多的人配备了仪表盘和门铃摄像头，此类目击报告也在增加。
詹金斯说，虽然他购买行车记录仪是为了以防万一发生事故，但”能捕捉到这样的东西很酷”。
“我再也不会不带行车记录仪出门了，”他说，”我现在需要去买一张彩票。”
Bright green fireball captured on video in Pacific Northwest sky as another meteor streaks across U.S.
Updated on: March 25, 2026 / 6:36 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Jason Jenkins was driving to work before dawn when a bright green streak beamed across the sky.
The camera on his dashboard captured the moment at 6:06 a.m. Monday while he was in southwestern Washington state about 20 miles north of Portland, Oregon. Initially he thought it might be a comet, but then figured it was too close to be one.
“It kind of reminded me of a lightning strike because it was so bright,” he said. “The video doesn’t do justice on how bright and close it seemed.”
What Jenkins saw was a fireball, a particularly bright meteor that can be seen up to 80 miles above the Earth, according to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland.
A video captured a meteor as it sped across the Pacific Northwest sky. Jason Jenkins / AP
Fireballs have been spotted in the skies across the U.S. in recent days.
An apparent meteor lit up the skies over Northern California over the weekend, drawing hundreds of reports from viewers across the region, CBS Sacramento reported.
Last week a 7-ton meteor sped across the Ohio sky in a fireball that broke apart in a thunderous boom that startled residents who feared an explosion. NASA said eyewitnesses from 10 states, Washington, D.C., and the Canadian province of Ontario reported seeing the fireball.
“Some fragments, some tiny pieces of it, actually made it to the ground,” Bill Cooke, the head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office, told CBS News.
On Saturday, a meteor traveling 35,000 miles per hour broke apart north of Houston, according to NASA, and the meteorite was originally about 1 ton and three feet across. The disintegration caused booms heard by some in the area, the agency said, and a resident told local TV news outlet ABC13 that a piece of the meteor crashed through her roof.
Green fireballs like the one Jenkins saw are often due to the presence of magnesium, which emits a bright blue-green light when heated and vaporized in the Earth’s atmosphere, the museum said. Nickel can also contribute to a green color.
Its altitude in the dark early morning sky made it widely visible, said Jim Todd, the museum’s director of space science education.
“It was bright, it was green, it was spectacular,” he said Monday. “One tiny little piece of rock put on such a show this morning.”
With the video and other people reporting sightings, it may be possible to determine the direction the fireball was traveling and whether it landed on the Earth’s surface. In most cases, it’s rare that a fireball makes contact with the Earth, and when it does, it can be hard to locate, Todd said.
“Even if it does survive, it looks like a common everyday rock, and nearly almost impossible to find, unless it hit a house or a street or leaves debris behind,” he said.
As the number of people with cameras on their dashboards and doorbells has grown, so have reports of such sightings, he added.
Jenkins said that while he got his dashcam in case of an accident, it was “cool to catch something like that.”
“I won’t go without a dashcam ever again,” he said. “I need to go buy a lottery ticket now.”
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