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We were traveling East on I40 through the Mojave Desert. Around 4am we started noticing flashes of light to the northeast and southeast. I thought perhaps it was lightning at first or maybe my Bluetooth ear-bud reflecting of the interior of the car.
Then I saw it! Off in the North-East a bright bluegreen-white flash streaked across the sky in front of us. My girlfriend was trying to get some sleep but I couldn’t hold in my excitement any longer. I had seen at least 4-5 meteors so far and they were still coming!

I was trying to figure out why there were so many of them happening so fast when I remembered that the Aurigids Meteor Shower was supposed to be happening sometime in the next few days acording to an email I received from MeteoriteCentral.com’s Meteorite-List newsletter a few days before. It announced the shower and the time it was supposed to happen. As I recalled the shower was supposed to be best viewed in the southwest somewhere around 4am in the morning on September 1st! Hmmm…