Below is a newspaper article from the 1990's:
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"Mysterious ball of light leaves scientists puzzled. A mysterious glowing ball of light traveling 1/100th the speed of light has been spotted and videotaped in the earth's upper atmosphere, but what is it has scientists puzzled. Brief footage of the image, which appeared for about 3/100th of a second at an estimated height of 80 kilometers, was presented publicly for the first time Monday at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. In a six-frame sequence, the object can clearly be seen crossing upwards and left across the field of view, while retaining its shape and intense glow. 'It's the first and only event of this kind photographed to my knowledge,' said Dr. Dean A. Morss, assistant professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Creighton University in Nebraska."
The reported speed is about 1862 miles per second, or about 3000 kilometers per second. By comparison, meteors travel in the atmosphere no more than about 72 kilometers per second.
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