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Flash in the pan?

That Upton Park goal was the sixth in 11 games for the former academy striker, who did not make his first senior appearance for United until seven weeks ago.

- Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford no flash in the pan for impressed team-mate Michael Carrick, Mirror.co.uk, April 14, 2016.

3. Barb Siebarth was outside feeding her chickens, ducks and geese Tuesday night when a flash of light sped across the sky, making a thunderous noise as it went.

“It really startled me,” Siebarth said. “It reminded me of when the Dundee Cement plant used to blast and the plane crash (off Dixon Road) about a half-mile from me.”

She wasn’t sure of what she saw until news reports on television and on social media later confirmed that a meteor had entered the earth’s atmosphere.

“You never know what you’re going to see in your lifetime,” she said.

The National Weather Service in Detroit (NWSD) confirmed late Tuesday evening that a meteor did in fact streak across the night sky. The meteor was also visible across several other states, including Illinois and Ohio.

NASA’s Meteor Watch project is among those studying the unusual event. They estimate that the interstellar object was moving at a speed of roughly 28,000 miles per hour.