Fire in the Sky

Burning object recorded in New Zealand sky likely a meteor

Hugh Collins
Otago Daily Times
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:29 UTC

© Matthew Willcox
Queenstown resident Matt Wilcox was lucky enough to witness what was probably a meteor on Wednesday evening.

A Queenstown man has captured some mysterious footage above the Remarkables mountain range.

Matt Wilcox was out for a walk when he spotted something odd.

"[It] was probably only visible for around a minute or so. Then it went behind the Remarkables and out of sight."

Southland Astronomical Society astronomer Mike Bailey had examined the footage and said he believed it was not a plane as it was moving too fast.

"It also looks dirty, aircraft contrails would normally be white," he added.

Bright meteor fireball turns night into day sky over eastern Caribbean Islands

Sott.net
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:13 UTC

At approximately 8:40 PM on Sunday 26th April 2020, a bright meteor streaked across the night sky, lighting up between Martinique to as north as Anguilla and as west as Puerto Rico.

A brief and bright flash of light was reported from Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy, Gustavia, and Puerto Rico.

Flash of the meteor seen at Gustavia:

Huge meteor fireball observed over Brazil

archyworldys.com
Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:40 UTC

A large meteorite crossed the Brazilian night sky and became extinct at an altitude of 67 kilometers, just one kilometer above the cities of Nova Petrópolis, Canela and Gramado, in the south of the neighboring country.

Comment: 'Became extinct'?! What a strange turn of phrase, given what meteors will likely do to us some day...

This was reported this Saturday by the Heller and Jung Space Observatory, which recorded last Thursday how the bolide (a type of meteorite with a very intense brightness) fell in the Hortensias region, in a sect of the mountain ranges of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Meteor smoke captured on video over Slovakia

Space Weather
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 03:44 UTC

The best meteor during this month's Lyrid meteor shower might not have been a Lyrid at all. On April 21st, Robert Barsa was outside the city of Košice, Slovakia, watching meteors fly out of the constellation Lyra when a flash lit up the sky from a completely different direction.

"I saw it in my peripheral vision," says Barsa. "As I looked reflexively above my head, I was speechless staring at a meteor much brighter than Venus."

"The fireball was moving very slowly with at least two outbursts," he says. "It reminded me of a decaying spaceship or satellite entering the atmosphere."

Bright fireball caused by meteor explodes, fragments over northwestern US

Carlo Inigo Monzon
International Business Times, Singapore
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:38 UTC

A few people in the US witnessed a bright fireball created by a meteor that streaked across the sky recently. The eyewitnesses said the space rock exploded mid-air and broke apart into tiny fragments.

The American Meteor Society reported that the fireball event happened on April 20 at around 10:30 pm MDT, or April 21 at 12:30 am EDT. Although most of the eyewitness reports regarding the fireball event came from the stated of Idaho, the incident was also spotted by individuals from Washington and Oregon.

Witnessing A Fireball Event

Based on the eyewitness reports, the brightness or magnitude of the fireball varied. While some eyewitnesses stated that the fireball had a magnitude of -20 to -14, others stated that it ranged from -7 to -5. The difference in magnitude may have been caused by the sky conditions in the area where they spotted the meteor. The presence of clouds or haze in the region might have affected the brightness of the fireball.

News photographer captures video of meteor fireball streaking through Texas sky

Aaron Barker
KPRC2
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:48 UTC

A KPRC 2 photographer captured video of a sight that is out of this world.

Cesar Martinez said he was driving southbound on U.S. Highway 59 early Monday morning near Beasley, Texas, when his vehicle's dashcam caught video of a bright green flash in the western sky.

Martinez said the light only lasted about six seconds before fading away.

The activity seen on camera appears consistent with video of confirmed meteor sightings. The light is the result of a space rock (meteoroid) burning up as it enters Earth's atmosphere.

While it's not clear if Monday's sighting is related, the Lyrid meteor shower reaches it's peak this week.

Investigators confirm meteorite discovery in El Empalme, Ecuador

Sott.net
Sat, 25 Apr 2020 06:59 UTC

Images of people in Ecuador manipulating a rocky body with their hands went viral on the night of Wednesday, April 22, 2020 on social media networks. In the videos, residents of the Los Naranjos compound in El Empalme (Guayas) spoke of an object that had fallen from the sky. The area also suffered several power outages.

The following morning, the Government of Ecuador confirmed that it was a meteorite according to El Comercio (Ecuador).

"The Police cordoned off the area and SCAN evidenced that the body is not radioactive, which reassures us, for the well-being of the residents," said Rodrigo Salas , assistant secretary for Nuclear Control and Applications (SCAN) of the Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources of Ecuador.

Bizarre fireball spotted over Hull, UK last night likely a meteor

Joe Pinkstone
Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:38 UTC

A bizarre burning fireball was spotted last night over Hull, with images capturing the moment the inferno burned up in the atmosphere as it plummeted towards Earth.

The Humberside 'bright orange' object was spotted by several people moving slowly over the city leaving a trail in its wake before disappearing.

Experts believe the unusual occurrence was a meteor, potentially linked to the annual Lyrid meteor shower due to commence this week.

Rebecca Holmes saw it from her garden in Bransholme, near Kingston upon Hull.

She said : 'I was sat in the garden, my husband was doing some gardening and I looked up and it was so bright orange and it was just gliding really slowly like something was burning but it was definitely too slow to be a shooting star.

Mysterious 'boom' rattles windows, startles wildlife in the Midlands, Ireland

Midlands103
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:45 UTC

A Westmeath woman is trying to find the source of a mysterious sound in the skies over the weekend.

Anna Duffy from Moate heard a massive boom on Saturday, that she says shook windows and startled wildlife. Others in the area also reported hearing the noise, but it later emerged people as far away as Galway noticed the disturbance.

Ms. Duffy says speculation is now rife on social media as to what could have made the unusual sound, with some suggesting it could have been a meteor.

Meteor fireball? Mystery burning object leaves smoky trail for 20 minutes over Cambridgeshire, UK

Richard Hartley-Parkinson
Metro
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 07:52 UTC

The mysterious plume was there for several minutes after an object was seen spiralling towards earth

People in Cambridgeshire have been left scratching their heads over a mysterious plume of smoke that appeared over the county.

A large flaming object was spotted spiralling in the sky at around 8pm by Gerry Underwood, 55.

He was sitting outside his canal boat in Stretham, having a little fire, when he spotted the trail. He said: 'It looked like a very thick chemtrail to start with. It looked like a short, skinny cloud. It wasn't moving quickly at all. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a meteorite, because they are gone in seconds.

'We have seen hundreds of shooting stars, but this definitely wasn't that either. This was coming down very slowly and spiralling. It started to glow orange as you can see in the pictures.

Comment: The electrical interaction of meteor fireballs with different charge layers of the atmosphere can cause them to appear to move 'slowly and spiralling.' In September 2019 a bright slow-moving meteor fireball was recorded over the English Channel.

'There were flames coming out of the back of it as well. It was really unusual.'

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Fire in the Sky

Burning object recorded in New Zealand sky likely a meteor

Bright meteor fireball turns night into day sky over eastern Caribbean Islands

Huge meteor fireball observed over Brazil

Meteor smoke captured on video over Slovakia

Bright fireball caused by meteor explodes, fragments over northwestern US

News photographer captures video of meteor fireball streaking through Texas sky

Investigators confirm meteorite discovery in El Empalme, Ecuador

Bizarre fireball spotted over Hull, UK last night likely a meteor

Mysterious 'boom' rattles windows, startles wildlife in the Midlands, Ireland

Meteor fireball? Mystery burning object leaves smoky trail for 20 minutes over Cambridgeshire, UK

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