We received 15 reports about a fireball seen over IN, OH, Ontario, PA, VA and WV on Friday, April 8th 2022 around 08:52 UT.

For this event, we received 2 videos and one photo.

We received 70 reports about a fireball seen over Bretagne, County Waterford, England, Hauts-de-France, Normandie, Northern Ireland, Pays de la Loire and Wales on Saturday, April 9th 2022 around 02:38 UT.

For this event, we received 4 videos and 3 photos.

We received 6 reports about a fireball seen over Al Ahmadi Governorate, Al Asimah Governate, Eastern Province and Hawalli Governorate on Saturday, April 9th 2022 around 20:50 UT.

For this event, we received 2 videos.

Director of the Southern Pleiades Astronomy Group, Ary Martins, said the meteor moved slowly through the sky at about 80 or 90 km. A video shot in Aparecida de Goiânia by one of the members of the group, Daniel Basile, shows the moment of the phenomenon.

"It was an exceptionally bright meteor. It produced two flashes of light, followed by a bang. It is not yet possible to say, but based on the properties, there is a possibility that meteorites, which are smaller parts of it, survived and hit the ground," he said.

Goiás was happy about the phenomenon on social networks. "It was the largest and longest fireball I've ever seen. It is very exciting to witness such an event," said a resident of Aparecida de Goiânia.

"I was at home. There was lightning in the sky, then a strong explosion like thunder. The phenomenon was very beautiful," said Maycon de Sousa Oliveira, a resident of Anápolis.


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An agreement between NASA and the U.S. Space Force recently authorized the public release of decades of data collected by U.S. government sensors on fireball events (large bright meteors also known as bolides) for the benefit of the scientific and planetary defense communities. This action results from collaboration between NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) and the U.S. Space Force to continue furthering our nation's efforts in planetary defense, which include finding, tracking, characterizing, and cataloguing near-Earth objects (NEOs). The newly released data is comprised of information on the changing brightness of bolides as they pass through Earth's atmosphere, called light curves, that could enhance the planetary defense community's current ability to model the effects of impacts by larger asteroids that could one day pose a threat to Earth.

Bolides, very bright meteors that can even be seen in daylight, are a regular occurrence - on the order of several dozen times per year - that result when our planet is impacted by asteroids too small to reach the ground but large enough to explode upon impact with Earth's atmosphere. U.S. government sensors detect these atmospheric impact events, and the bolide data is reported to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) fireballs database, which contains data going back to 1988 for nearly one thousand bolide events. Now, planetary defense experts will have access to even more detailed data - specifically, light curve information that captures the optical intensity variation during the several seconds of an object's breakup in the atmosphere. The data will be available to scientists as soon as it is properly archived, with the reported events and made easily accessible. This uniquely rich data set has been greatly sought after by the scientific community as an object's breakup in Earth's atmosphere provides scientific insight into the object's strength and composition based on what altitudes at which it breaks up and disintegrates. The approximate total radiated energy and pre-entry velocity vector (i.e., direction) can also be better derived from bolide light curve data.

"The growing archive of bolide reports, as posted on the NASA CNEOS Fireballs website, has significantly increased scientific knowledge and contributes to the White House approved National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan" said Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer at NASA Headquarters. "The release of these new bolide data demonstrates another key area of collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Space Force and helps further the pursuit of improved capabilities for understanding these objects and our preparedness to respond to the impact hazard NEOs pose to Earth."

We received one report about a fireball seen over Québec on Monday, April 4th 2022 around 06:13 UT.

For this event, we received one video and one photo.

We received 6 reports about a fireball seen over England on Wednesday, April 6th 2022 around 00:38 UT.

For this event, we received one video.

We received 17 reports about a fireball seen over England, Hauts-de-France, Normandie and Wales on Friday, April 1st 2022 around 22:18 UT.

For this event, we received 2 videos and 4 photos.

A meteor was spotted by people across Merseyside.

The UK Meteor Network described it as 'a fairly big meteor' in a post on social media . The ECHO's chief photographer Colin Lane spotted a 'mini fireball' in the sky on Saturday evening.

Colin, who lives on Merseyside, said: "I was looking up at the clear sky a mini fireball caught my eye. I initially thought it was a firework but there was no sound. It was falling from the sky with a golden glow fireball. Guessing it was meteor or shooting star."

We received 10 reports about a fireball seen over CA on Saturday, March 26th 2022 around 06:40 UT.

For this event, we received one video.