Meteor Over Brooklyn?

They're pretty common, actually. The light pollution tends to obscure the events. When you're reasonably above the effects, 3,000ft & above at night, you can spot them from your window seat if you look up.

http://tv.ibtimes.com/pentagon-s-hypersonic-plane-goes-missing/1599.html

Quite often during WW11 when you looked up at the sky in the Slope, you could see a sky full of Bombers on their way over to Europe. One night someone strayed into Brooklyn's Air Space with a private plane. The sky was completely lit up with Searchlights, mostly from the Anti Aircraft Battalion on Lookout Mountain in Prospect Park. They talked the plane down and no one was injured. Between the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn Army Base and the Queen Mary & Queen Elizabeth carrying troops overseas, Brooklyn was a hub of activity for the war effort. :salut: Not only is it quite possible you saw a Meteor but when I was a kid we used to see the Aroura Boriealis(SP)in the Brooklyn sky!!! 8-[

Brooklyn in the 40's---During the War Metal drives to aid the war effort. People piled up every piece of scrap metal they could find. Occasionaly fence gates from peoples homes ended up in the pile. It was a contest from block to block to see who could pile up the most. Newspapaper drives. You could get .70 a hundred pounds. Food rationing. Each of us had a book of ration stamps. I still have mine now in 2011. Gasoline was rationed and according to the type of driving you did( to work, at work, etc) you got a sticker on your windsheild to show how much gas you could buy. Then Block parties on almost every street to commemorate the end of WWll.The G.I.s were coming home. WOW what a ride.... :roll: