Bright meteor fireball filmed streaking through Puerto Rico skies

Sott.net
Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:49 UTC

© Frankie Lucena

Screen shot of the fireball from Franke Lucena's facebook

Skywatcher Franke Lucena filmed a fireball blazing through the night skies of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, at 04:01 local time on Tuesday 9th April. According to reports, the event lasted for about 5 seconds before burning up in the atmosphere.

Also that evening there have been 53 reports to the American Meteor Society (AMS) of a fireball sighted from the US, so there may be another sighting and more footage to come.

If you would like to report a sighting, you can do so with the AMS here.

Screenshot of the reports to the AMS

Comment: The uptick in fireball sightings continues apace:

• Very bright meteor fireball fragments over Krasnoyarsk, Russia - Third such event in four months (7th April 2019)
• Meteor fireball over New Mexico (5th April 2019)
• Hundreds report daytime meteor fireball over Southeast US (4th April 2019)
• Meteor fireball recorded over Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo, Brazil (4th April 2019)
• Streaking meteor fireball caught on dash-cam over Wisconsin (3rd April 2019)
• Large green meteor fireball captured blazing through Florida night sky 31st March 2019)
• Green meteor fireball captured by amateur photographer over Tasmania (29th March 2019
• Meteor fireball seen in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (28th March 2010)
• Bright meteor fireball observed over Santa Catarina, Brazil (25th March 2019)