From: Cayla Jennigs <caylabrielle [at] yahoo.com>
Date: 9/01/2007 12:55 PDT


Thank you for your amazing detailed coverage of this
wonderful once in a lifetime event. I was very excited
and awoke at 4:15 a.m. to go lay in the backyard and
look for Aurigid. I really started looking at around
4:22 a.m. and within a few minutes or so I saw the
most amazing shooting star I have ever seen!! It came
from the N NE and was a long, long shooting star of
this amazingly brilliant "Traffic Light" Green. To
give you an idea of how long it was - if I held a
ruler out in front of my eyes at arms length, looking
up at the sky, the shooting star would have been 12
inches long from start to finish. Thats an amazingly
long distance! 

It  had a slight downward path. It had a definite
"head" that became very apparent about half way thru
its flight and had a sparkly, flashy nature to it. It
disappeared heading SW. This was the "STAR" of the
night I am sure. I did see 3 other much shorter white
flashes that were more "supporting cast" to this 1
amazing show stopper. I will never forget that
shooting star as long as i live. It will always be a
favorite of mine. 

I had my camera but was unable to capture it because I
was so in awe and "starstruck" by it. I wish I had
gotten a picture of it, but seeing it naturally, with
my own eyes, from start to finish is something that is
simply priceless to me. 

I am wondering if you guys saw or filmed the same
shooting star I did. You would not forget it if you
did. Like i said it came between 4:24 - 4:32. 

Thank you for such a wonderful website and your
enthusiasm in which you write in it. i can feel your
excitement and that is a wonderful feeling.

Happy Cosmic Viewing!!

Cayla

P.S. I live in Indio, Calif which is about 20 miles
east of Palm Springs. Very dark sky as we are out in
the desert.