US | meteor California Gets Apparent Meteor Show, Too People around San Francisco report light streaking through sky By John Johnson Posted Feb 16, 2013 12:14 PM CST Copied California Gets Apparent Meteor Show, Too A dash cam video on YouTube. Watch the upper right. (YouTube) A big shooting star wouldn't generally make headlines, but this one in California is doing so because it comes on the heels of what happened in Russia and what didn't happen to Earth. Last night, lots of people in the San Francisco Bay area captured images of a bright light streaking across the sky, reports AP and the local NBC affiliate. One astronomer says it was probably a relatively common "sporadic meteor." Read These Next Cruise passenger, reportedly left behind on island, is found dead. Bill Gates wants less 'doomsday' talk on climate change. Monstrous Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica. Game 3 of the World Series took a historically long time to wrap up. See 1 photo Report an error