Doorbell Cameras Captured Some of the Best Videos of Meteor ‘Fireball’ That Lit Up the Alaskan Skies

From left to right: (Brian Brettschneider/Reuters); (Courtesy of Michael and Heather Stewman); Courtesy of Joe Waggoner

The last meteor shower of 2022 over southcentral Alaska has been caught on numerous home security cameras, illuminating the early morning winter solstice sky with a flash of fiery color.

The meteor appeared at around 5:45 a.m. on Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, waking many Alaskans from their slumber. It caused a “fireball” emitting white, blue, and orange light according to residents’ reports from Anchorage and Wasilla that were submitted to the citizen-science collective American Meteor Society.