© YouTube/AMS/L. KLITZKE (screen capture)
The impressive event (1702-2019) was recorded and a video uploaded to the AMS website.
Fire in the Sky
The impressive event (1702-2019) was recorded and a video uploaded to the AMS website.
© AMS/J. Boyd
Meteor fireball over Texas (Event #2019-1671)
Meteor fireball over Texas (Event #2019-1671)
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 45 reports of the event.
The GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) capture a meteor in NE Oklahoma around 5:20pm. The meteor was visible across much of the area and a large green fireball.
The meteor created a smoke trail as it burned across the sky; Tisha Rowley shot this picture of the smoke.
The meteor generated a sonic boom as it burned entering Earth's atmosphere; the boom was heard across much of our area.
If you heard a low rumble or something that sounded like "thunder" in the distance between 5:20-5:25pm: you heard the meteor.
The meteor created a smoke trail as it burned across the sky; Tisha Rowley shot this picture of the smoke.
If you heard a low rumble or something that sounded like "thunder" in the distance between 5:20-5:25pm: you heard the meteor.
© WGHP
"It was a very loud boom," Dianne Williams said.
Williams was alarmed to hear such a loud noise, followed by shaking. She said it was scary for her dogs too.
"I heard bang, bang, in the laundry room, so I opened the door where we keep our pots and pans and they were on the floor!" Williams said.
But she wasn't the only person along the road to hear the noise and feel the movement in the ground.
© KSNV
Was the fiery streak a meteor? A satellite?
A doorbell camera from a Rhodes Ranch home caught a streak of light flying across the sky Tuesday morning just after 4 a.m.
Southwest resident Shannon Graham said, "Amazing. I haven't seen anything like that. It's pretty cool to see that."
Shannon Graham lives in the area. Graham says the video of the mysterious streak brings back memories as a child looking up at the sky during meteor showers.
"They are not as uncommon as you think. I remember growing up. We would go outside and put lawn chairs out and watch the meteor showers", she says.
© Frankie Lucena
Screen shot of the fireball from Franke Lucena's facebook
Screen shot of the fireball from Franke Lucena's facebook
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.
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)
© The Siberian Times
Busy receiving space wanderes, this time a bolide is seen in sky over Krasnoyarsk.
Busy receiving space wanderes, this time a bolide is seen in sky over Krasnoyarsk.
The phenomenon caused fear on the ground.
'I panicked as it sounded and looked like a plane on fire, I got really scared of the noise and shine it created', said a local woman from Krasnoyarsk, the large industrial city.
'I pulled a phone out of a pocket, but it flew across the sky so fast that I only caught a long white trace it left.'
Some residents said the meteor was blindingly bright, akin to the light and sparks created during intense welding work.
It split into several parts before disappearing in the sky somewhere over Irkutsk region, east of Krasnoyarsk.
The local ministry of emergencies confirmed it registered a meteor, and said that it didn't pose a threat to people or infrastructure.
It is the third major meteor or meteorite event in four months.
Have you seen a bright fireball? Report it to the American Meteor Society (AMS).
Here's Mike's report to the AMS.
© A. McCullough, AMS
Meteor fireball over Southeast US on April 4, 2019.
Meteor fireball over Southeast US on April 4, 2019.
AMS received 9 videos and 7 photos of the event.
Comment: A daytime meteor was also seen earlier that day over Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia