'I won't say it's impossible, but it's very unlikely.'
Penn Valley Fire Protection Districtthat was destroyed in a fire Friday evening, not long after witnesses say they saw a bright object falling from the sky nearby.
The blaze was reported at 7:25 p.m. near the Mooney Flat area in Nevada County, Clayton Thomas, a captain of the Penn Valley Fire Protection District, told SFGATE Monday. The owner of the home, Dustin Procita, was inside at the time the fire broke out and believes it was caused by a meteorite landing on his roof.KCRA."I started to smell smoke. I went onto my porch and it was completely engulfed in flames.
Procita was able to narrowly escape with one of his dogs, but lost another dog and his pet rabbits to the fire. Thomas said the blaze was contained by 8:55 p.m., and no people were injured or killed. What he doesn’t know is how the fire broke out. Over a hundred other sightings of the fireball observed near the home were reported to the American Meteor Society from as far south as Gustine, California to as far north as Grants Pass, Oregon. Elinor Gates, a staff astronomer at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, said one of her colleagues was at his home near Pleasant Valley when he happened to catch a glimpse of it, describing it as “the brightest fireball he’d ever seen.
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