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15 Sep. 2021
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AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2020 (UTC)
EVENTS: M10-
50, L51-150, H151+
IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2020 (UTC)
The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports - Summary
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- 01JAN/15 EVENTS
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- 02JAN/16 EVENTS M-2
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- 03JAN/31 EVENTS
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- 04JAN/22 EVENTS L-1,M-2
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- 05JAN/13 EVENTS
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- 06JAN/21 EVENTS M-1
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- 07JAN/22 EVENTS L-1,M-2
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- 08JAN/21 EVENTS
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- 09JAN/30 EVENTS
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- 10JAN/21 EVENTS L-1,M-1
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- 11JAN/11 EVENTS M-1
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- 12JAN/28 EVENTS
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- 13JAN/31 EVENTS M-3
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- 14JAN/23 EVENTS M-1
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- 15JAN/26 EVENTS L-1,M-1
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- 16JAN/28 EVENTS
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- 17JAN/27 EVENTS
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8 - 18JAN/22 EVENTS M-2
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- 19JAN/18 EVENTS M-1
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- 20JAN/19 EVENTS M-1
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- 21JAN/26 EVENTS M-1
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- 22JAN/23 EVENTS H-1,
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- 23JAN/22 EVENTS M-1
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- 24JAN/16 EVENTS
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- 25JAN/15 EVENTS
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- 26JAN/13 EVENTS M-1
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- 27JAN/8 EVENTS
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- 28JAN/20 EVENTS
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- 29JAN/16 EVENTS M-3
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- 30JAN/12 EVENTS
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- 31JAN/20 EVENTS M-1
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- 01FEB/14 EVENTS ?
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- 02FEB/18 EVENTS M-1
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- 03FEB/24 EVENTS M-1
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- 04FEB/21 EVENTS L-1,M-1
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- 05FEB/15 EVENTS M-1
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- 06FEB/15 EVENTS ?
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- 07FEB/18 EVENTS ?
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- 08FEB/14 EVENTS ?
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- 09FEB/21 EVENTS M-1
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- 10FEB/19 EVENTS M-2
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- 11FEB/21 EVENTS M-3
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- 12FEB/22 EVENTS L-1,M-1
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- 13FEB/18 EVENTS M-1
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- 14FEB/15 EVENTS M-2
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- 15FEB/11 EVENTS ?
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- 16FEB/12 EVENTS ?
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- 17FEB/24 EVENTS ?
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- 18FEB/15 EVENTS L-1
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- 19FEB/16 EVENTS L-1
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- 20FEB/21 EVENTS M-1
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- 21FEB/27 EVENTS M-1
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- 22FEB/27 EVENTS H-1,M-1
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- 23FEB/29 EVENTS ?
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- 24FEB/30 EVENTS M-1
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- 25FEB/21 EVENTS L-2
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- 26FEB/36 EVENTS M-4
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- 27FEB/31 EVENTS H-1,L-1,M-2
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- 28FEB/29 EVENTS H-1,M-3
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- 01MAR/20 EVENTS L-1,m-1
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- 02MAR/26 EVENTS M-2
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- 03MAR/31 EVENTS M-1
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- 04MAR/23 EVENTS M-2
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- 05MAR/16 EVENTS M-2
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- 06MAR/34 EVENTS M-2
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- 07MAR/40 EVENTS H-1,M-1
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- 08MAR/44 EVENTS L-1,M-1
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- 09MAR/28 EVENTS M-1
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- 10MAR/22 EVENTS ?
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- 11MAR/18 EVENTS L-1
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- 12MAR/7 EVENTS ?
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- 13MAR/33 EVENTS L-2,M-2
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- 14MAR/31 EVENTS L-1,M-2
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- 15MAR/33 EVENTS M-2
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- 16MAR/17 EVENTS M-1
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- 17MAR/28 EVENTS M-1
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- 18MAR/26 EVENTS ?
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- 19MAR/22 EVENTS M-1
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- 20MAR/31 EVENTS H-1,M-2
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- 21MAR/35 EVENTS H-1,L-3.M-1
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- 22MAR/29 EVENTS M-5
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- 23MAR/23 EVENTS M-1
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- 24MAR/22 EVENTS M-1
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- 25MAR/17 EVENTS ?
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- 26MAR/16 EVENTS L-1,M-1
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- 27MAR/20 EVENTS L-1,M-1
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- 28MAR/13 EVENTS ?
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- 29MAR/18 EVENTS L-2
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- 30MAR/22 EVENTS ?
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- 31MAR/11 EVENTS ?
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- 01APR/22 EVENTS M-2
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- 02APR/29 EVENTS M-2
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- 03APR/25 EVENTS L-1,M-2
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- 04APR/19 EVENTS M-2
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- 05APR/25 EVENTS M-1
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- 06APR/26 EVENTS M-3
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- 07APR/16 EVENTS ?
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- 08APR/15 EVENTS M-1
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- 09APR/29 EVENTS ?
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- 10APR/14 EVENTS ?
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- 12APR/20 EVENTS ?
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- 13APR/16 EVENTS H-1
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- 14APR/13 EVENTS ?
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- 15APR/16 EVENTS M-2
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- 16APR/15 EVENTS ?
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- 17APR/17 EVENTS ?
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- 18APR/16 EVENTS ?
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- 19APR/13 EVENTS L-1,M-1
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- 20APR/12 EVENTS ?
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- 21APR/21 EVENTS ?
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- 22APR/21 EVENTS M-2
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- 23APR/16 EVENTS M-4
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- 24APR/16 EVENTS H-1
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- 25APR/6 EVENTS ?
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- 26APR/6 EVENTS M-2
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- 27APR/15 EVENTS ?
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- 28APR/8 EVENTS ?
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- 29APR/14 EVENTS M-1
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- 30APR/11 EVENTS ?
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- 01MAY/25 EVENTS M-1
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- 02MAY/16 EVENTS ?
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- 03MAY/14 EVENTS M-1
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- 04MAY/10 EVENTS ?
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- 05MAY/17 EVENTS ?
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- 07MAY/21 EVENTS M-1
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- 08MAY/23 EVENTS M-1
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- 09MAY/?16 EVENTS L-1,M-2
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- 10MAY/16 EVENTS M-1
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- 11MAY/17 EVENTS M-1
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- 12MAY/15 EVENTS M-1
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- 13MAY/22 EVENTS L-1,M-1
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- 14MAY/16 EVENTS L-1,M-1
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- 15MAY/20 EVENTS M-1
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- 16MAY/23 EVENTS M-1
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- 17MAY/27 EVENTS ?
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- 18MAY/12 EVENTS M-1
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- 19MAY/19 EVENTS M-1
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- 22MAY/12 EVENTS M-1
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- 24MAY/16 EVENTS M-1
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- 26MAY/15 EVENTS L-1,M-1
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- 27MAY/23 EVENTS M-1
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- 28MAY/27 EVENTS M-4
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- 29MAY/25 EVENTS M-2
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- 30MAY/29 EVENTS M-1
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- 31MAY/20 EVENTS M-1
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- 01JUN/21 EVENTS ?
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- 02JUN/18 EVENTS ?
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- 03JUN/22 EVENTS M-1
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- 09JUN/13 EVENTS M-1
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- 10JUN/19 EVENTS L-1
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- 11JUN/18 EVENTS ?
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- 12JUN/22 EVENTS M-2
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- 13JUN/18 EVENTS M-1
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- 14JUN/13 EVENTS M-1
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- 15JUN/11 EVENTS M-1
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- 16JUN/17 EVENTS ?
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- 17JUN/16 EVENTS M-3
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- 27JUN/13 EVENTS M-1
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- 30JUN/12 EVENTS M-2
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Loud boom heard in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky tri-state area - 01
Jan
2021
A loud boom could be heard in various communities across the Tri-State
around 2
p.m. Friday, leaving numerous residents wondering what it was.
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Meteor Fireball As Bright As Full Moon Over Spain On January 2 - 02
Jan
2021
On 2 January 2021, at about 5:08 local time, a fireball as bright as the
full
Moon was spotted over the south of Spain. This bolide was generated by a
rock
from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 230,000 km/h. The fireball
began
at an altitude of about 113 km over Andalusia (south of Spain), and ended
at a
height of around 58 km.
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'Loud Boom' Sounds Reported In Several North Carolina Counties - 03
Jan
2021
Across several North Carolina counties, thousands of people reported
hearing
loud "boom" sounds late Saturday afternoon. No official explanation for
the
mysterious noises has been issued as of Sunday morning.
WFMY News 2 is continuing to reach out to officials about the "booms,"
and this
article will be updated as we learn more.
In terms of location, viewers reported hearing the sounds in Forsyth,
Yadkin,
Stokes, Davie, Rockingham, and Surry counties.
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'Sonic Boom' Possibility On Loud Noise Heard In Southern Ohio - 04
Jan
2021
The "boom" was heard throughout Pickaway county, East Fairfield county
and
Northern Ross county.
A sonic boom is caused by pressure waves in-front and behind it, the
sound is
caused by the stick waves created by any object that travels through the
air
faster than the speed of sound. The noise is not heard from the aircraft
surprisingly it comes after the plane has flown by.
Several aircraft have been seen over the area in the last 24 hours
including
military planes.
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Daytime meteor fireball streaks over Bahia, Brazil - 04 Jan 2021
The passage of a meteor in broad daylight scared residents of several
locations
in the interior of Bahia on Saturday, January 2. The meteor was recorded
by the
GOES-16 meteorological satellite and by a Clima Live camera in Nova
Redenção.
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Bright meteor fireball explodes over Norway - 13 Jan 2021
On the night of 5 January 2021 at 00:21:38, a large meteor fireball lit
up the
sky over Eastern Norway reports the Norwegian Meteorite Network, and may
have
produced meteorites.
According to the Norwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR) website infrasound
stations on
Løten registered signals from the meteor which was heard by people living
in
Ullensaker.
The Norwegian Meteor Network / Solar Observatory at Harestua recorded the
event:
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Meteor Fireball Streaks Over US East Coast - 11 Jan 2021
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 42 reports (event 183-2021)
about a
meteor fireball seen over DC, MD, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, VA and WV on
Sunday,
January 10th 2021 around 04:17 UT.
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Nest Camera Captures Meteor Fireball In Bedford County Sky In
Virginia - 11
Jan 2021
A number of reports came into the American Meteor Society on Monday
morning(Jan 11) across Virginia.
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Meteor Fireball Filmed Over The Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia - 12 Jan
2021
According to scientists, its diameter was less than ten meters. The
meteorite
collapsed before reaching the ground.
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Daytime Meteor Fireball Filmed Over Hiratsuka, Japan - 12 Jan
2021
A meteor fireball spotted falling from sky yesterday over Hiratsuka,
Japan.
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Meteor Fireball Over San Cristóbal De Las Casas, Mexico - 13 Jan 2021
This video has been uploaded on the American Meteor Society Website. AMS
Event:
302-2021, Report 220353 (302a-2021) - San Cristóbal de las Casas MX
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Bright Meteor Fireball Over The Mediterranean Sea (Jan. 13) - 14 Jan
2021
This beautiful meteor was spotted form Spain on 2021 January 13 at 22:10
local
time (equivalent to 21:10 universal time). It overflew the north of
Morocco and
the Mediterranean Sea. The bolide was generated by a rock from a comet
that hit
the atmosphere at about 65,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of about 106
km
over the north of Morocco, and ended at a height of around 65 km over the
Mediterranean Sea, after traveling about 55 km in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Bright Meteor Over The Mediterranean Sea (Jan. 15) // Bola de fuego sobre
el
Mediterráneo (15 Enero) - Jan 15, 2021
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SOMETHING WEIRD IS GOING ON 2021 EVENTS! - Jason A Must Video -
Jan26,
2021
South Florida Jan 15, 2021
Went on for 15 seconds Homestead Florida 1:59 PM no earthquake
registered.
Meteorite sounded like opening and closing door.
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Several Meteors And A Bright Meteor Fireball Reported Over Puerto
Rico - 18
Jan 2021
The Caribbean Astronomy Society (SAC) reported that several bright
meteors were
observed over Puerto Rico on Saturday 16th January, including a fireball
that
was captured on video at around 10:47pm according to El Nuevo Dia.com.
Observers reported that the fireball showed a striking and colorful wake,
while
others even perceived a sound.
"The detail that it emitted a sound is extremely interesting, because as
we know
light travels faster than sound, but on several occasions a simultaneous
sound
with a meteor has been recorded. It is known as an electrophonic meteor,
"said
Eddie Irizarry, vice president of the SAC, in written statements.
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Several Meteors And A Bright Meteor Fireball Reported Over Puerto
Rico - 18
Jan 2021
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Fireball Over The South Of Spain (Jan 16) // Bola de fuego sobre el sur
de
España (16 de enero) - Jan 18, 2021
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Suspected Bolide Observed Over Spain's Galicia Region, Loud Boom
Reported -
Jan 18, 2021
According to Marca, early this morning (18th Jan) at 01:10 am, a 'great
ball of
fire' illuminated the skies of Galicia, Castilla y León (El Bierzo) and
Portugal.
The suspected bolide was accompanied by a loud roar that was heard
minutes after
the sky was tinted green, orange or blue .
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Meteor Fireball Booms Over Eastern USA As Witnesses Report Being 'Scared'
By
Burst Of Light - Jan 18, 2021
A bright blast of light (AMS Event 256-2021) lit up the skies across
eastern
USA on Saturday, as a meteor entered the atmosphere above the coast of
North
Carolina. The blast was so big that it could be seen across three
different
states - Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina - as well as
Washington DC.
Footage of the event was captured by a back garden security camera.
The film shows the black of night suddenly turn bright as a streak of
light
ventures through the sky.
Doze
ns of people headed to the International Meteor Organisation
(IMO) to
report their sighting.
Mary told the IMO: "It seemed so big and close. I waited after it to pass
and
believed I would hear something but didn't.
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Watch Meteor Fireball Streak Over Sydney, Australia - 'Most Insane Thing
I've
Ever Seen' - Jan 19, 2021
During this period, the meteor is incinerating as it encounters Earth's
thick
atmosphere approximately 50 miles (80km) up.
Sydney residents flocked to Twitter to share their excitement at spotting
the
meteor.
Ron Sweeney tweeted: "Did anyone see a meteor/comet/piece of junk flash
east to
west across the Sydney sky tonight?
"Very visible and appeared to be low in the sky with no sound."
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Bright Meteor Fireball Observed Over Wide Areas Of Japan - Jan 21,
2021
People in many parts of Japan have reported seeing what appeared to be a
fireball flashing through the sky on Wednesday night.
Eyewitness reports were posted on social media about the phenomenon that
was
observed shortly after 8:30 p.m. in regions including Kanto, Tokai and
Kinki.
A video taken by an NHK camera in the western prefecture of Osaka shows a
ball
of light streaking across the sky for several seconds at around that
time.
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Meteor Fireball Lights Up Madrid's Night Sky - Jan 22, 2021
A rock from an asteroid hit the Earth's atmosphere early Thursday morning
at
about 126,000 km/h, creating a large fireball over Madrid that could be
seen
across Spain. This is not an unusual event: besides space objects like
this one,
which disintegrate before reaching the ground, every year around 17,000
meteorites fall to Earth, according to the Madrid Planetarium.
The phenomenon, which took place at around 3.56am local time, was
captured and
recorded by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the La
Hita
meteor observation station in La Puebla de Almoradiel in Toledo. The
fireball
was recorded as part of the SMART project, an initiative of the Andalusia
Astrophysics Institute (IAA-CSIC) that continuously monitors the sky in a
bid to
record and study the impact of different objects from the solar system on
the
Earth's atmosphere.
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Green Meteor Fireball Reported Over The Netherlands And Belgium - Jan
22,
2021
A green meteor fireball was spotted by many in the early morning, around
7.50
AM, on Friday January, 22nd, across large parts of the Netherlands and
some
parts of Belgium. Twitter users described the fireball as a "green ball"
or a
"green flash of light". One Twitter user wrote: "Very bright meteor was
visible
around 7.52 AM which was moving south." According to meteorologist
Michiel
Severin, reports about the fireball mostly came from northern, mid, and
western
parts of the Netherlands.
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Meteor Fireball Lights Up Northern Hungarian Skies - Jan 23, 2021
A commenter on YouTube wrote that the meteor could also be seen from
eastern
Poland. He noticed it at 2 AM as he looked out the window at the
landscape, but
because of the sudden brightness he didn't know how to identify the
phenomenon.
It is important to know that this is not a meteorite: the latter is a
natural
object from space that is not destroyed when it hits Earth. Anyways, it
offered
a unique, beautiful sight.
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Loud Boom In Bali's Buleleng Allegedly Due To Exploding Meteor
Fireball -
25 Jan 2021
Residents in Buleleng, Bali, and its surrounding areas were shocked by a
loud
boom on Sunday morning, January 24. The earthquake sensor of the
Meteorology,
Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) recorded it as an anomaly.
The agency's coordinator for earthquake and tsunami mitigation, Daryono,
confirmed that many questioned the mysterious bang. Some were shocked
that the
loud boom rattled windows. Some also claimed they saw a meteor falling in
the
north or Bali sea.
"It goes viral on social media as many report loud rumbles, especially
those in
northern Bali," said Daryono on Sunday, January 24.
One of three BMKG's seismographs in Singaraja detected the tremor at
10:27
Central Indonesian Time (WITA) for about 20 seconds. "After being
analyzed, the
vibration was not caused by an earthquake," he concluded.
Besides, the agency did not record any fault activity in the regions
since 08:00
WITA. "Its strength is equal to a 1.1 magnitude quake," he added.
However, the
BMKG could not find the source.
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Mystery loud Bang Heard Across Tameside, England Caught On Camera -
25 Jan
2021
Residents in Audenshaw, Denton, Dukinfield reported hearing the noise
just
before 10pm, with some also saying they saw a flash of orange light.
CCTV footage from one property in Denton, sent to the Manchester Evening
News
captured the deafening noise at 9.53pm.
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Explosive 'boom' Noise Heard In Parts Of Northwest Georgia - 25 Jan
2021
Some reports suggested the noise shook their homes and windows. However,
units
who responded to these calls have yet to suggest what exactly may have
caused
the noise - or noises.
Since sharing the message around 7 p.m., the 911 center's post has
received over
100 comments from people who either heard and felt the noise or wanted to
take a
guess at what may have caused it.
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Meteor Fireball Filmed By Dash Cam Over Zagreb, Croatia - 29 Jan
2021
Our colleague Mario from Vidilab, found himself on the highway at 3:50
p.m. On
some 20 minutes drive from Karlovac to Zagreb, the dash cam camera of his
car
recorded a nice meteor crash, as you can see in this video.
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BLAZING METEOR FIREBALL STREAKS THROUGH THE SKY OVER GRANADA, SPAIN -
29 Jan
2021
An asteroid that entered the earth's atmosphere at a speed of about
83,000
kilometres per hour flew over the sky of the Andalucían province of
Granada at
1.19 pm today, Friday.
Due to its high luminosity, it could be seen from the south to the centre
of the
country. Astrophysicist José María Madiedo, of the Institute of
Astrophysics of
Andalusia, of the Higher Council for Scientific research tweeted the news
this
afternoon to his thousands of anxious star watchers.
The asteroid flew above the town of Benamaurel, and slowly burnt out,
after
heading in a northwesterly direction at an altitude of 34 kilometres.
Luckily,
the rock was completely destroyed in the atmosphere, without impacting
the
ground or posing any danger to human life. By all accords, it was a
fantastic
sight.
It began over the north of the province of Granada at an altitude of
about 98
km, and ended at a height of around 34 km. The event was recorded in the
framework of the SMART project from the meteor-observing stations located
at La
Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto (Almeria), La Sagra
(Granada), Sierra Nevada (Granada) and Sevilla.
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Meteor Fireball Seen Over Northern Europe - 30 Jan 2021
This video has been uploaded on the American Meteor Society Website. AMS
Event:
589-2021, Report (589j-2021) -Tauche DEnMore info here:
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Loud Blast Recorded On Dashcam As Meteorite Explodes Over Sarawak,
Indonesia -
Locals Felt Earth Shake - 31 Jan 2021
The PABD then issued a notice seeking eyewitness accounts of the
phenomenon,
which is believed to have occurred at about 11am.
Some Bruneians later shared their experiences and uploaded blurry
pictures of
what appears to be a fireball trailing smoke to PABD's Facebook page.
A Sabahan in Brunei, Joey Yong, said she heard something like extremely
loud
thunder but did not know what it was.
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Meteor Fireball Flies Across Kansas Sky - 01 Feb 2021
According to the American Meteor Society, there were 31 reports of
fireballs in
the sky between Sunday night and Monday morning. Reports were made in the
neighboring states of Colorado, Nebraska and Oklahoma and as far away as
Texas,
Wisconsin, New York, England and Scotland.
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Video Shows Meteor Fireball Blazing Over Derbyshire, UK - 04 Feb
2021
This video shows the incredible moment a fireball was seen falling from
the sky
in Derbyshire.
The footage above shows the fireball suddenly appearing from absolutely
nowhere
in Whaley Bridge at 5.42am this morning, exactly a year to the day after
one was
spotted in Derby.
The clip is from the CCTV cameras of Rachael Magowen's home in the
Derbyshire
town.
Comment: According to the American Meteor Society (AMS) the event (677-
2021) was
observed from all over the UK and parts of the Netherlands. Another video
of the
event was uploaded to the AMS website
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Meteor Fireball Streaks Over California - 12 Feb 2021
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 24 reports (event 778-2021)
about a
meteor fireball seen over CA, NV and UT on Thursday, February 11th 2021
around
05:21 UT.
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LARGE METEOR FIREBALL REPORTED OVER UK AND WESTERN EUROPE - 13 Feb
2021
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 82 reports (event 809-2021)
about a
meteor fireball seen over Île-de-France, Drenthe, England, Friesland,
Gelderland, Grand Est, Groningen, Hauts-de-France, Hessen, Limburg,
Niedersachsen, Noord-Brabant, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Normandie, Overijssel,
Scotland, Vlaanderen, Wales, Wallonie, Zeeland and Zuid-Holland on
Friday,
February 12th 2021 around 05:10 UT.
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Meteor Fireball Over Andalusia, Spain (Feb. 13)a - 15 Feb 2021
The fireball shown on this video was recorded over the south of Spain on
2021
February 13, at 19:30 local time (equivalent to 18:30 universal time). It
was
generated by a rock from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about
72,000
km/h.
It began over the north of the province of Granada at an altitude of
about 95
km, and ended at a height of around 55 km. The event was recorded in the
framework of the SMART project from the meteor-observing stations located
at La
Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto (Almeria), La Sagra (Granada), Sierra Nevada
(Granada)
and Sevilla.
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BRIGHT METEOR FIREBALL STREAKS OVER MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - 15 FEB
2021
RESIDENTS OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, REPORTED SEEING A "MASSIVE FIREBALL"
STREAK
ACROSS THE NIGHT SKY ON FEBRUARY 14.
Dashcam footage posted to Facebook by Leesa Vaughan, and recorded from
the
Monash Freeway in Melbourne, shows the object flash in the night sky.
"That was a massive fireball," Vaughan can be heard saying in the video.
Astronomical Society of Victoria - February 14 at 1:39 PM
ASV member Steve Johnston reported seeing a very bright meteor last night
in
Melbourne at 10:41pm. It began near the zenith (centre of the sky) and
headed
southward, ending with a double flash to the left of the Southern Cross.
This is
likely a sporadic meteor, probably not much larger than a marble,
entering the
earth's atmosphere and burning up. It was likely created in a collision
of
larger meteoroids and been orbiting the solar system until now when its
orbit
intersected with earths. This video of it was captured by Fernando Braga.
If you
were fortunate enough to see it, please tell us about it here.
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Meteor Fireball Over The South Of Spain (Feb. 16) - 16 Feb 2021
On 16 February 2021, at about 6:00 local time (equivalent to 5:00
universal
time), a fast fireball was spotted over the south of Spain. This bolide
was
generated by a rock from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 213,000
km/h.
The fireball began at an altitude of about 117 km over the province of
Badajoz,
and ended at a height of around 82 km.
This meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated
by the
Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing
stations
located at Sevilla, La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada),
and
Calar Alto (Almería). The event has been analyzed by the principal
investigator
of the SMART project: Dr. Jose M. Madiedo, from the Institute of
Astrophysics of
Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).
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Residents Throughout UK Observe Bright Meteor Fireball - 19 Feb
2021
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 112 reports (event 907-2021)
about a
meteor fireball seen over England, Groningen, Northern Ireland and
Scotland on
Thursday, February 18th 2021 around 21:20 UT.
For this event, AMS received one video. Credit: Andrew Simpson.
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AMS event #978?-2021 - 2021-02-22 13:22 UT
This video has been uploaded on the American Meteor Society Website. AMS
Event:
978-2021, Report (978pc-2021) -Red Deer CA\nMore info here: AMS
Event#978?-
2021
Huge Event - 456 AMS reports.
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Bright Meteor Fireball Lights Up Night Sky Over Alberta, Canada - 22
Feb
2021
A fireball buzzed over the Prairies on Monday, temporarily piercing the
dark of
the early morning sky with a flash of blinding blue light.
The meteor darted across the sky around 6:30 a.m. MT, startling early
risers who
were lucky to catch a glimpse of the sudden glow.
As of 8:30 a.m., there were 42 unverified reports of fireball sightings
on the
American Meteor Society (AMS) website.
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Meteor Fireball Turns Night Into Day In Mallorca, Spain - 24 Feb
2021
At around 21:30 on Tuesday 23 Febuary a "fireball" crossed the
skies of
Mallorca and witnesses who saw it the middle of the Serra de Tramuntana
mountains, Deya and Soller, said it was on a north or west to south
trajectory.
Francesc Xavier Salas from Deya described it as "an impressive fireball
that
showed very powerful sky blue light inside and an outer layer and tail
with a
greenish hue.
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Meteor Fireball Streaks Across Central Arkansas sky - 25 Feb 2021
A fireball streaked across the Central Arkansas sky at 8:17 p.m.
Wednesday
24 Febuary.
Steve Arnold of Eureka Springs is looking for video to help triangulate
the
location.
Arnold, who was a host of the Discovery television show Meteorite Men,
thinks
there's a good chance the meteorite landed on Earth, possibly in the
vicinity of
El Dorado or north Louisiana.
"There is a slight chance that it totally burned out," he said. "I'm
optimistic
that there's pieces. It was bright. The more shallow angle, it's a more
gentle
process. When it's coming down and getting into the thick part of our
atmosphere
quickly it will more often break up into a bunch of little pieces. This
one is
more likely to have stayed intact or broken into a couple of pieces."
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Meteor Fireball Caught On Camera Over Ontario, Canada - 27 Feb
2021
Observers in Ontario reported seeing a bright fireball on February 26 at
10:07
PM EST (2021 February 27 3:07 UTC). This event was captured by several
all sky
meteor cameras belonging to the NASA All Sky Fireball Network and the
Southern
Ontario Meteor Network operated by Western University. Via NASA
government
website
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Large Meteor Fireball Widely Observed Blazing Over UK - Update:
Meteorites
Likely, Sonic Boom Reported - 01 Mar 2021
The hunt is on for meteorite fragments that are likely to have fallen to
Earth
over England on Sunday night.
Many people across Northern Europe saw a fireball in the sky shortly
before
22:00 GMT, and the streak of light was also caught on special cameras
28
Febuary.
Scientists think some pieces will have survived the intense heat of
atmospheric
entry and hit the ground.
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Meteor Fireball Over Sakurajima Volcano, Japan On March 3 - 03 Mar
2021
At 00:52 JST a fireball was observed on a new webcam the first night
trying it
out.
The time was recorded by our good friend in Japan, who in turn let me
know and I
found it. Please follow our pal: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD7E...
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Meteor Flying Above Vermont Explodes, Shakes Building - Mar 9,
2020
A bright fireball traveling about 42,000 miles per hour hurtled through
the sky
above Vermont on Sunday night, (Mar 7, 2021) rattling buildings
and
sending off a loud boom.
NASA Meteor Watch said the object was most likely a fragment of an
asteroid, and
appeared about 52 miles above Mount Mansfield State Forest around 5:38
p.m. EST.
It was seen by more than 100 people in Vermont and in Canada.
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Vermonters See, Hear, Feel Meteor Fireball Speeding Over State - 08
Mar
2021
You called us from all over the state Sunday evening(3/07/2021,
reporting
a loud boom and a body-rattling vibration. Well, we found out you were
hearing
and feeling a meteor hit the atmosphere!
We caught it happen on our camera at the Burlington International Airport
-- a
bright fireball flying over northern Vermont around 5:40 p.m.
NASA Meteor Watch says it was moving at 47,000 miles per hour. It
traveled 33
miles from above Mount Mansfield State Forest to Beach Hill near Newport,
before
burning up.
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Meteor Fireball Blazes Over Florida - 09 Mar 2021
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 35 reports (event 1407-2021)
about a
meteor fireball seen over AL, FL, GA and SC on Monday, March 8th 2021
around
10:33 UT.
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Meteor Fireball Seen Traveling Across Sky Over Tokyo - 14 Mar
2021
Many people in Tokyo and surrounding areas have taken to social media to
report
seeing what appeared to be a fireball shooting across the night sky.
Eyewitnesses posted about the phenomenon that was observed shortly after
3 a.m.
on Sunday (14/03/2021) across the Kanto region, which includes
Tokyo.
A video taken by an NHK camera in the capital's Shinjuku Ward shows a
ball of
light streaking from the upper middle of the screen to the lower left.
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Bright Meteor Fireball Over The Mediterranean Sea (March 15) - 15 Mar
2021
This bright meteor was recorded form Spain on 2021 March 15 at 1:51 local
time
(equivalent to 0:51 universal time). It overflew the Mediterranean Sea.
The
bolide was generated by a rock from a comet that hit the atmosphere at
about
140,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of about 111 km over the
Mediterranean
Sea, and ended at a height of around 59 km, after traveling about 80 km
in the
Earth's atmosphere.
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Meteor fireball streaks over Rome, Italy - 15 Mar 2021 09:45 UTC
A bolide / meteorite has been spotted on the skies of Rome on the evening
of 15 March 2021. Credit: Meteo Lazio
- Very bright bolide over Minas
Gerais, Brazil on March 11 - 18 Mar 2021 13:07 UTC
A very luminous bolide was recorded at dawn on March 11th in BRAMON and
Clima ao Vivo cameras in Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
- Large meteor fireball turns night
into day over Indonesia - 19 Mar 2021 11:17 UTC
A bright meteor has lit up the sky in Sulawesi, Indonesia on 16 March
2021 at 9:20 PM. Videos from the event show a bright fireball streaking
across Pagimana District, Banggai Regency, Central Sulawesi lighting the
dark sky.
Residents of Gorontalo Province who saw the meteor said that they heard a
loud boom sound when the meteor lights up the night sky. Some experts
believe that the flying object was a bolide, a very bright meteor.
- Bright meteor fireball over Spain (March
17) - 17 Mar 2021 13:25 UTC
Our cameras recorded this fireball over Spain on 17 March 2021, at about
6:07 local time (equivalent to 5:07universal time). The bolide was
generated by a rock from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about
100,000 km / h.
The fireball began at an altitude of about 100 km over the province of
Jaén (Andalusia), and ended at a height of around 52 km over the province
of Ciudad Real (Castilla-La Mancha).
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Space Rock Reportedly Hits Cuba, Lights Up Night Sky and Causes
Explosions - 20.03.2021
The Caribbean island was previously hit by a meteorite in February
2019, with space rock fragments causing a sonic boom powerful enough to
shatter windows in the city of Pinar del Rio in country’s west.
Seismologists in Cuba have tentatively attributed mysterious lights
illuminating the night sky above the Moa seismological station in the
country’s east to a meteorite.
At 10:06 pm, (Mar 19, 2021)the station registered ‘several
luminous phenomena’, with residents in multiple communities reporting
spotting a red and white light followed by one or more explosions.
National Seismological Service Chief Enrique Arango Arias confirmed to
CubaDebate that the agency believes the event was caused by a space
rock.
“Judging by the readings of the sensors, it was not a terrestrial
explosion, but, since it was an event with such characteristics, our
equipment recorded a shockwave,” the seismologist explained. He added
that in addition to Moa, the event had been registered in the nearby
towns of Sagua de Tanamo and Maisi.
- Space rock reportedly
hits Cuba, lights up night sky, causes explosions - 20 Mar 2021 18:15
UTC
The Caribbean island was previously hit by a meteorite in February 2019,
with space rock fragments causing a sonic boom powerful enough to shatter
windows in the city of Pinar del Rio in country's west.
Seismologists
in Cuba have tentatively attributed mysterious lights illuminating the
night sky above the Moa seismological station in the country's east to a
meteorite.
At 10:06 pm, the station registered 'several luminous phenomena', with
residents in multiple communities reporting spotting a red and white
light followed by one or more explosions.
National Seismological Service Chief Enrique Arango Arias confirmed to
CubaDebate that the agency believes the event was caused by a space rock.
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Bright meteor fireball captured over Pittsburgh - 21 Mar 2021 09:34
UTC
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 143 reports (event 1786-2021)
about a meteor fireball seen over CT, DC, DE, IN, MA, MD, MI, NC, NH, NJ,
NY, OH, Ontario, PA, Québec, TN, VA and WV on Sunday, March 21st 2021
around 04:25 UT.
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Spectacular meteor fireball in Belem, Brazil - 19 Mar 2021 10:56
UTC
Spectacular Meteor in Belem, Brazil. 19 March 2021. In the Brazilian
state of Pará, local residents filmed a rare phenomenon: a meteorite
probably lit up the night sky, leaving behind a bright trail and flash.
To explain the reason for this phenomenon, scientists continue to
investigate video recordings of the fireball.
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Daytime meteor streaks over Jersey, Channel Islands - Update: Sonic boom
reported - 20 Mar 2021 17:42 UTC
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 68 reports (event 1767-2021)
about a meteor fireball seen over Île-de-France, Bretagne, Centre-Val de
Loire, England, Hauts-de-France, Normandie, Pays de la Loire, St. Ouen,
Vlaanderen and Wales on Saturday, March 20th 2021 around 14:53 UT.
Across the English Channel a loud bang and 'earthquake-like' tremors were
reported by residents in Dorset according to the Bournemouth Echo. The
Ministry of Defence quashed rumours that RAF planes caused the boom
reports the Dorset Echo.
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Bright meteor fireball lights up sky from New Hampshire to North
Carolina - 21 Mar 2021 13:05 UTC
Did you see it? NASA Meteor Watch says a very bright fireball was spotted
across the East Coast around 12:26 a.m. Sunday morning.
The meteor was also detected by three meteor cameras belonging to the
NASA Fireball Network and two cameras of the Southern Ontario Meteor
Network, NASA said.
NASA says the orbit and brightness of the meteor (roughly that of the
gibbous moon) indicate that the fireball was caused by an asteroidal
fragment weighing 7 pounds (3 kilograms) and about 5 inches (13
centimeters) in diameter.
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Bright meteor fireball lights up sky from New Hampshire to North
Carolina - 21 Mar 2021
Did you see it? NASA Meteor Watch says a very bright fireball was spotted
across the East Coast around 12:26 a.m. Sunday morning.
The meteor was also detected by three meteor cameras belonging to the
NASA Fireball Network and two cameras of the Southern Ontario Meteor
Network, NASA said.
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It was witnessed in 15 states and TWO countries spanning 800 miles moving
at 45,000 mph!! - Mar 24, 2021
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Bright meteor fireball blazes over Denmark - Mar 30, 2021
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 100 reports (event 1950-2021)
about a meteor fireball seen over Brandenburg, Drenthe, Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Schleswig-Holstein, Västra Götalands län
and Zuid-Holland on Saturday, March 27th 2021 around 19:54 UT.
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Stunning meteor fireball over Spain on March 28 - Mar 28, 2021
On 28 March 2021, at about 6:21 local time ( 4:21universal time), a very
bright fireball was spotted over Spain. This bolide was generated by a
rock from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 96,000 km / h. The
fireball began at an altitude of about 82 km over the province of Jaén
(Andalusia), and ended at a height of around 29km over the province of
Albacete (Castilla-La Mancha).
This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project,
operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the
meteor-observing stations located at Sevilla, La Hita (Toledo), La Sagra
(Granada), Sierra Nevada (Granada) , Calar Alto (Almería), and Madrid
(Jaime Izquierdo, Complutense University of Madrid).
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Fireball spotted over Oshkosh, Wisconsin - Mar 29, 2021
The American Meteorological Society meteor website shows multiple
fireball reports in the United States Monday morning. Someone spotted it
in North Fond du Lac.
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Meteor fireball over Toledo, Spain (April 1) - 01 Apr 2021
On 1 April 2021, at about 23:05 h local time, a very bright fireball was
spotted over Spain. This bolide was generated by a rock from an asteroid
that hit the atmosphere at about 72,000 km/h. The fireball, that could be
seen over the whole Iberian Peninsula because of its high brighness,
overflew the province of Toledo. It began over that province at an
altitude of about 92 km, and ended at a height of around 43 km.
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Meteor fireball observed over Scotland - 03 Apr 2021
A HUGE meteor lit up the skies of Scotland tonight.
Weatherman Sean Batty told fans he spotted a "fireball dropping out of
the sky".
It is understood to have come crashing through the atmosphere around
8.30pm tonight.
Sightings were reported from all over the country including in Fife and
Inverclyde.
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Meteor fireball over Sevilla and Cádiz, Spain (4 April) - 05 Apr
2021
This bolide was spotted over Spain on 4 Abril 2021, at about 23:42 local
time (equivalent to 21:42 universal time). The event was generated by a
rock from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 57,000 km/h. The
fireball began at an altitude of about 81 km over the south of the
province of Sevilla, and ended at a height of around 30 km over the north
of the province of Cádiz.
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Bright meteor fireball turns the Central Asian night sky greenBright
meteor fireball turns the Central Asian night sky green - 07 Apr
2021
In the videos of the event, a bright white object can be observed falling
towards our planet and illuminate, at least for a few moments, the clouds
in the night sky with an intense light green color, before continuing its
journey towards the earth's surface.
According to eyewitnesses from the areas near the city of Bishkek, the
capital of the country, the glare caused by the alleged meteorite was so
intense that the sky lit up as if it were daytime.
For her part, the head of the Institute of Seismology of the National
Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, Gulzhán Saadáyeva, pointed
out that it is unlikely that the object has fallen in that country, since
the phenomenon was also appreciated in Tashkent, capital from neighboring
Uzbekistan.
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'What Is That In The Sky?' Floridians catch meteor fireball's close brush
with Earth - 13 Apr 2021
A meteor shot across the sky around 10 p.m. Monday (12 Apr).
On social media, residents along the state's Atlantic coast, from West
Palm Beach south to Miami, shared videos on Twitter of the surprising
sight.
Dashcam footage and security videos showed a still, dark night suddenly
lit up by what appeared to be a large fireball streaking diagonally
across the sky. In just a few seconds, it was over.
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Basingstoke, UK residents baffled by 'loud bang that shook the
ground' - 15 Apr 2021
Popley residents have been left baffled this evening by a loud bang this
evening which "shook their homes".
Neighbours came out onto the streets at around 6.50pm when a noise took
them by surprise.
The sound could be heard as far as Cliddesden with two dog walkers
hearing the sudden noise.
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Loud 'boom', shaking in Charlotte, North Carolina was not an
earthquake - 15 Apr 2021
A loud bang in south Charlotte Thursday remains a mystery.
No injuries or damage was reported after the loud noise and shaking were
felt across portions of south Charlotte shortly after 11 a.m.
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Spectacular meteor fireball flies across Spain - 17 Apr 2021
Star gazers in Spain had a rare treat on Friday night, April 16 as a
stunning fireball was clearly visible for almost a minute over much of
the country when a rock from an asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere
at an impressive 61,000 kilometres per hour. According to the Astrohita
Foundation, while most spectacles of this kind are extinguished
immediately or at least within a few seconds, this fireball remained
alight for nearly sixty seconds.
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The amazing 'fireballs' over North Wales which have left plenty of people
puzzled - 17 Apr 2021
He wrote: "HELP. Did anyone else witness this as the Sun was setting
tonight 16th April 2021? Can anyone explain this please?"
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Meteor fireball blazes over Ohio - 20 Apr 2021
Event recorded on: 2021/04/19 01:22:40 am
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Dozens report bright meteor fireball in New Hampshire skies - 20 Apr
2021
A surveillance video captured by a Nest security camera in Rochester
submitted by a local user shows a short, bright streak of light in the
sky. The submitter said the fireball was accompanied by a loud boom, and
an emailer from Strafford told News 9 his house shook after the fireball
was seen. Just one of the reports submitted to the AMS indicated that the
witnesses hadn't heard any sound.
7:46 PM · Apr 19, 2021
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Dozens report bright meteor fireball in New Hampshire skies - 20 Apr
2021
Dozens of people in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts reported
seeing a bright fireball streak across the sky Sunday night (18 April
2021).
The American Meteor Society received at least 45 reports of the meteor
from as far away as Nova Scotia, Rhode Island and Vermont. Based on the
reports, it's likely the fireball entered the atmosphere above the ocean
off the coast of Maine at about 8:20 p.m. and streaked northwest above
Casco Bay.
A surveillance video captured by a Nest security camera in Rochester
submitted by a local user shows a short, bright streak of light in the
sky. The submitter said the fireball was accompanied by a loud boom, and
an emailer from Strafford told News 9 his house shook after the fireball
was seen. Just one of the reports submitted to the AMS indicated that the
witnesses hadn't heard any sound.
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Fireball spotted above Bournemouth, UK - 20 Apr 2021
The incredible sight was recorded at 12.56am by Beswick Avenue resident
Tina Williams, 56, who has CCTV installed outside of her apartment.
Video from Tina's CCTV camera captured the moment and can be watched
below.
Tina has been "blown away" by the footage.
She said: "I was staying at my boyfriend Lee's place in West Howe when it
happened. Lee got up this morning to have a look at my apartment's CCTV
footage and when he was watching it, he saw the bright light that
appeared.
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Bolide over Cádiz and Málaga, Spain (April 20th) - 21 Apr 2021
This bolide was spotted over the south of Spain on 20 April 2021, at
about 0:35local time (equivalent to 22:35universal time on 19 April). The
event was generated by a rock from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at
about 61,000 km / h.
The fireball began at an altitude of about 88 km over the south of the
province of Cádiz, overflew the western area of ??the province of Málaga,
and ended at a height of around 37 km over the east of the province of
Cádiz. This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART
project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from
the meteor-observing stations located at Sevilla, La Hita (Toledo), and
La Sagra (Granada).
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Meteor fireball blaze caught on police body cam at Surfers Paradise,
Australia - 21 Apr 2021
Police were lucky enough to catch footage of a meteorite as it fell over
the Gold Coast on Monday night.
Gold Coast rapid action patrol police were "shocked to see a meteorite
blaze across the sky" while on duty in Surfers Paradise. The meteorite
fell over the city about 9.45pm on Monday, leaving a long white tail
before disappearing behind buildings.
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Lyrid fireball over the Mediterranean (April 23) - 23 Apr 2021
This bright Lyrid meteor was recorded over Spain on 2021 April 23 at 6:03
local time (equivalent to 4:03 universal time). It overflew the
Mediterranean Sea. The bolide was generated by a fragment (a meteoroid)
from Comet C/1861 G1 (Comet Thatcher) that hit the atmosphere at about
165,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of about 114 km over the
Mediterranean Sea, and ended at a height of around 60 km, after traveling
about 53 km in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Meteor fireball widely reported over southern France - 25 Apr
2021
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 406 reports (event 2408-2021)
about a meteor fireball seen over Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-
Franche-Comté, Centre-Val de Loire, Emilia-Romagna, Geneva, Liguria,
Lombardia, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Piemonte, Provence-Alpes-Côte
d'Azur, Toscana and Vaud on Saturday, April 24th 2021 around 20:28 UT.
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FLAMING METEOR FIREBALL SEEN IN OMAN'S SKY - 29 Apr 2021
Speaking exclusively to the Times of Oman, Yusuf bin Zahir Al Salmi,
Official of Al Huwqain Astronomical Observatory, said: "Eyewitnesses from
Al Huwqain, Wadi Bani Ghafir villages in the Wilayat of Rustaq in South
Al Batinah Governorate and from the Wilayats of Ibri, Yanqul, and Dhank
in Al Dhahirah Governorate, reported that at exactly 8:28 pm on
Wednesday's evening the 15th of Ramadan, April 28, 2021, a very bright
white light was seen tending to blue, penetrating clouds, starting from
the northeast, heading to the southwest, and after a few seconds an
explosion followed."
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Meteor fireball spotted on deputy's dashcam in Collier County,
Florida - 30 Apr 2021
A Collier County deputy captured a unique phenomenon on her dashcam while
out on patrol this week.
Cpl. Nicole Medenwald saw a meteor, and rather than savor the memory, she
got to review the proof!
The Collier County Sheriff's Office said she had just come from
conducting a traffic stop. She repositioned her patrol car to face North
15th Street to watch for cars.
"I saw a green light and then it lit up the sky," Cpl. Medenwald said.
"It reminded me of lightning at night the way the sky lit up."
Cpl. Medenwald said she's seen meteors before but has never seen one
break the atmosphere and light up the sky.
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A HUGE, GLOWING FIREBALL LIGHTS UP THE SKY OVER JAPAN - 04 May
2021
A glowing object crossing the sky was captured on Monday (May 3)
night over the Fukuoka and Nagasaki prefectures in Japan. The phenomenon
was captured on video by cameras in the area and seen by several
witnesses who described it as a ball of light, pick up the chain NHK.
Satoshi Imamura, an expert in space issues, dispelled doubts about the
nature of the object and explained that it was a bright shooting star
known as a fireball or bolide. The intense luminosity occurs when dust
and asteroid fragments in outer space enter the atmosphere and burn.
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Meteor fireball seen over Shanxi, China - 18 May 2021
AMS event 2775-2021
We received one report about a fireball seen over Shanxi on Friday, May
7th 2021 around 16:42 UT.
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Meteor fireball streaks across the Greater Antilles - 08 May
2021
A bright meteor was spotted across the night skies of the Greater
Antilles on Friday night. Those who spotted it say the brilliant meteor
appeared as a "huge green ball with a long tail."
The meteor was visible from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba
at approximately 8:02 PM Friday 7th May 2021.
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Bright meteor fireball lights up night sky over Minnesota - 10 May
2021
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 39 reports (event 2671-2021)
about a meteor fireball seen over MN, ND, SD and WI on Sunday, May 9th
2021 around 08:03 UT.
For this event, it received 6 videos and one photo.
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Loud mysterious boom has residents of south-west Sydney, Australia
scratching their heads - 10 May 2021
Mystery surrounds the incident, with reports the sound was heard across
Marrickville, Roselands, Bardwell Park, Campsie and Belmore.
Residents reported windows shaking, and that the sound was something like
an explosion or a backfiring car, but with no visual indicators.
NSW police said there were no active investigations into the incident and
that they had received numerous calls about the apparent explosion, but
do not know the source.
"And when they're big enough to cause a sonic boom, or to be heard,
they're big enough to burn pretty bright in the sky."
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DAYLIGHT METEOR FIREBALL FILMED OVER SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - 14
May 2021
AMS Event 32762-2021
A METEOR which flew through the Californian skies in broad daylight left
some locals wondering if the incoming space rock hit the Santa Cruz
mountains.
Earlier today, a meteor flew through the skies of California. Tens of
people in California saw the meteor, most of those around the San
Francisco area. Witnesses flocked to the International Meteor
Organisation (IMO) to report their sighting.
Some were concerned that it was going to make land surface - which it did
not.
A person named Cole told the IMO: "It was extremely close looking
compared to any other meteor-like object I've observed and was headed
towards the direction of Briones Reservoir.
"Could've touched down not too far from my location but am unsure. Very
visible fragmentation."
Daniel added: "It was headed toward Black Mountain technically in the
Santa Cruz Mountains; I am quite curious if it impacted on the face of
the mountains I can see or if it streaked over or burned up before
impact."
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Meteor fireball spotted in evening skies over Cork, Ireland - 14 May
2021
The fireball was seen from many different areas of Cork last night
An unusual sight was spotted in Cork skies last night (13 May
2021) when a meteorite was filmed blazing through the sky before it
had even gone dark.
Footage shared on Twitter last night shows the fireball blasting across
the Cork skyline while it was still bright.
The video was taken in Ballinhassig at around 9:26pm with experts saying
it would be unusual for it to be a meteorite so early in the night.
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Slow-moving meteor fireball recorded over the Mediterranean Sea - 15
May 2021
his slow bolide was recorded form Spain on 2021 May 14 at 4:25 local time
(equivalent to 2:25 universal time). It overflew the Mediterranean Sea
between the coasts of Spain and Morocco. The fireball was generated by a
rock from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 68,000 km/h. It
began at an altitude of about 89 km over the Mediterranean Sea over a
point located at about 13 km from the coast of Spain, and ended at a
height of around 29 km over a point located at about 34 km from the coast
of Morocco.
The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by
the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN), from the meteor-observing
stations located at La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada
(Granada), and Sevilla.
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DAYTIME METEOR FIREBALL RECORDED BY CAMERAS IN BAHIA, BRAZIL - 17 May
2021
Live Weather Cameras recorded a meteor during the morning of this Monday
(17th) in Bahia. Check the locations below:
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Green meteor fireball recorded over Morocco - 19 May 2021
AMS event 2847-2021
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 5 reports (event 2847-2021)
about a meteor fireball seen over Casablanca-Settat, Drâa-Tafilalet,
Marrakesh-Safi and Souss Massa on Monday, May 17th 2021 around 20:31 UT.
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'Never Seen Anything Like It’: Massive Fireball Burns Up Sky - May
18, 2021
A massive meteor shower was spotted over southeast Queensland on Monday
night with stargazers left in awe by the "spectacular" sight.
Witnesses reported that the meteor broke off into four or five pieces as
it burnt across the southeast about 6pm.
Sightings were recorded from Gold Coast all the way down to Byron Bay and
inland as far as Ipswich and Toowoomba.
Onlookers described the fireball in the sky as orange with a long
trail.
It lasted less than 10 seconds according to witnesses before it headed
...
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Meteor fireball streaks over northeast Brazil - 24 May 2021
A beautiful meteor was seen on the night of Saturday, May 22, in four
states in the Northeast. The phenomenon occurred at 18:59 (Brasília time)
on the coast of Rio Grande do Norte and was recorded by the cameras of
BRAMON and Clima ao Vivo in Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco and
Ceará.
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Loud boom, shaking in Virginia Beach, Virginia - 24 May 2021
Several people are reporting their house shook and there were booming
sounds this morning, with the first around 11 a.m.
One person in north Virginia Beach said they heard "a loud noise like
thunder" in First Landing Park off of Shore Drive. In Hampton and
Poquoson, several residents said their windows rattled and they felt
their houses shake.
Paul Carusol, a seismologist with United State Geological Services, said
the agency saw a spike on its seismometers.
Don Blakeman, another seismologist with the agency, said analysts with
USGS do not believe there was an earthquake.
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Meteor fireball spotted over Maryland Tuesday May 25 - 24\6 May
2021
Bright meteor fireball observed over Scotland and Northern Ireland -
28 May 2021
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 122 reports (event 2983-2021)
about a meteor fireball seen over County Donegal, County Dublin, County
Galway, County Louth, County Roscommon, County Sligo, County Wicklow,
England, Northern Ireland, Peel, Scotland and Wales on Wednesday, May
26th 2021 around 21:53 UT.
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Meteor fireball captured over Brazil - 28 May 2021
Beautiful meteor recorded by the cameras of BRAMON and Clima ao Vivo in
Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina at dawn on Thursday, May 27, 2021.
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Meteor fireball crashes onto Indonesia's Merapi volcano - 29 May
2021
The footage itself was actually from Thursday (27 May 2021) and was
captured by a CCTV from Megadata, an internet service provider company in
Indonesia. Specifically, the CCTV footage was recorded from a Megadata
facility in Kalitengah Kidul, Jogjakarta which is where Mount Merapi is
located.
You can see the footage of the meteor lighting up the skies above the
Mount Merapi volcano here:
When interviewed by Indonesian news portal kumparan, Gunarto said that he
took the photos from a location in Batu Alien in the Kaliadem Cangkringan
district at around 11.07pm last Thursday. He has been trying to snatch
photos of the Merapi volcano's lava with sunrise and sunset views since
February this year. On that particular day however, he was trying to snap
a photo of Merapi volcano with a full moon backdrop.
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Meteor fireball recorded over Germany on May 30th - 04 Jun 2021
We received 12 reports about a fireball seen over Bayern, Brandenburg,
Hessen, Hlavní mesto Praha, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Sachsen, Schleswig-Holstein and Thüringen on Sunday, May 30th 2021 around
22:55 UT.
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https://www.sott.net/article/453578-Meteor-fireball-over-Cordoba-Spain-
June-2nd - 02 Jun 2021
This bolide was spotted over Spain on 2 June 2021, at about 4:12 local
time (equivalent to 2:12 universal time). The event was generated by a
rock from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 183,000 km/h. The
fireball overflew the province of Córdoba. It began at an altitude of
about 111 km, and ended at a height of around 83 km.
This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project,
operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the
meteor-observing stations located at Sevilla, La Hita (Toledo), La Sagra
(Granada), Calar Alto and Madrid (Universidad Complutense). The event has
been analyzed by the principal investigator of the SMART project: Dr.
Jose M. Madiedo, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-
CSIC).
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Large meteor fireball recorded in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina,
Brazil - 03 Jun 2021
Live Weather Cameras and our partner Bramon (Brazilian Meteor
Observatory) recorded a meteor in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina in
the early hours of this Thursday (3rd).
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Mystery 'explosion' baffles residents in York, UK - 05 Jun 2021
Residents in a York neighbourhood have been baffled by a loud 'explosion'
which brought them out on to the streets.
Jonathan Tyler contacted The Press to say the 'explosion' happened at
about 9.10pm last Sunday evening in the Fishergate area, and it was
enough to bring many people in Sandringham Street out into the road.
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LARGE METEOR FIREBALL RECORDED OVER ALMERÍA, SPAIN - 07 Jun 2021
Last June 5th at 23h29 UT a impressive fireball was registered to the
Southwest of Calar Alto Observatory in Almería.
Unfortunately, most Spain was covered with clouds, so no other stations
could detect this object. Due to this, triangulation was impossible and
no more data is available concerning this phenomena.
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BRIGHT METEOR FIREBALL OVER SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA - 06 Jun
2021
A very bright meteor captured early this morning. Sony IMX291 sensor. The
final image is a stack of all the captures, created by summing the maxima
of the images. The camera is very sensitive and the image stack is
saturated so the meteor appears white. There is a very faint green trail
seen on an averaged stack (not shown).
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LARGE METEOR FIREBALL RECORDED OVER ALMERÍA, SPAIN - 07 Jun 2021
Last June 5th at 23h29 UT a impressive fireball was registered to the
Southwest of Calar Alto Observatory in Almería.
Unfortunately, most Spain was covered with clouds, so no other stations
could detect this object. Due to this, triangulation was impossible and
no more data is available concerning this phenomena.
However, Calar Alto Observatory enjoyed clear skies and one of the
external surveillance cameras could register the impressive fireball.
Below is the video registered with the external surveillance camera at
Calar Alto Observatory in Almería.
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With Quake Ruled Out, San Diego's 'Mystery Boom' Was Likely Sonic -
09 Jun 2021
A day after a "mystery boom" shook San Diego County, the strange
sensation remains talk of the town — but so far there's still no clear
explanation for the phenomenon.
From the South Bay through the city of San Diego and in to North County,
residents reported a loud "boom" accompanied by the rattling of windows
around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday (8 June).
"We do know that incoming meteorites, something the size of a basketball
or larger, can hit the atmosphere at the right angle that it effectively
sends a shockwave a sonic boom to the earth," he told FOX 5.
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Meteor Fireball Over The South Of Spain (June 9) - 09 Jun 2021
On 9 June 2021, at about 5:09h local time (3:09 universal time), a
fireball was spotted over Spain. This bolide was generated by a rock from
a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 155,000 km/h. The fireball, that
could be seen over the whole Iberian Peninsula because of its luminosity,
overflew the provinces of Ciudad Real and Córdoba. It began over Ciudad
Real at an altitude of about 105 km, and ended over Córdoba at a height
of around 82 km. The event is associated with the Daytime Arietids meteor
shower.
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Green meteor fireball streaks across the skies of Jacksonville,
Florida - 10 Jun 2021
Green meteor streaks across the skies of Jacksonville
It took place about 9:50 p.m. and crossed from southwestern to
southeastern skies as it broke up. Typically breaking up between 30 and
70 miles up in the atmosphere and traveling at tens of thousands of mph,
these rocks heat up rapidly and this causes them to explode. You can see
that in the video.
What you can't see is that it was greenish in color. This implies it was
made of nickel, which burns green.
The exact track appears to have come across the state of Florida probably
across Tampa to Daytona.
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Meteorite? Earthquake? Sonic boom? Mystery noise wakes up North-West
coast of Australia - 12 Jun 2021
A post on Facebook asked whether anyone had heard an explosion at 2am.
People from Waratah, Wynyard, Burnie and Somerset replied to a post.
"Saw a bright flash which lit up the sky around 2am in Wynyard," Richard
Middap posted.
"Cracked my bedroom window in West Mooreville," Nett Richards replied.
"Gone over Waratah. It broke a window," Judith Summers wrote.
Waratah resident Val Flemming said her window was left cracked after
hearing and waking up to rumbling, shaking windows and a loud sound.
Tasmania Police said there was one report of a loud bang from Wynyard
about 2am.
"It was believed to be a meteorite and believed there was a four-second
explosion from Burnie way," the Tasmania Police spokesman said.
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Daytime Meteor Fireball Over Rosario, Argentina - 13 Jun 2021
A camera from the Rosario Meteorological and Climate Monitoring Center
captured the exact moment when the object crossed to the southeast.
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Bolide Over The Mediterranean Sea (June 13) - 13 Jun 2021
This bright meteor was recorded form Spain on 2021 June 13 at 3:45 local
time (equivalent to 1:45 universal time). It overflew the Mediterranean
Sea. The bolide was generated by a rock from a comet that hit the
atmosphere at about 145,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of about 106 km
over the Mediterranean Sea, and ended at a height of around 70 km after
traveling about 38 km in the Earth's atmosphere.
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'Flaming Stone' Falls From The Sky In Bacolod, Philippines - 13 Jun
2021
A flaming stone that reportedly fell from the sky landed at the Negros
Occidental High School (NOHS) campus in this city on Friday (13
June), Cebu Daily News (CDN) Digital reported.
According to NOHS principal Mario Amaca, he and other persons in the
school heard a loud explosion at about 4pm.
Janette Sarcillo, the wife of one of the school's security guards, later
reported that she found the "space stone" that fell near the guards'
barracks.
"I saw the flaming object fall from the sky. It grew bigger and bigger as
it approached the ground and made a loud explosion as it landed," she
said.
A geologist of the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office
will visit the NOHS campus on Monday to identify the stone.
Amaca said the fireball turned out to be a shiny black stone that is
about two and a half inches thick and three inches long.
"It is almost as big as my fist and looks like a meteorite," he said.
"It is very hard. If you scratch it against a sharp object, it turns
white and goes back to its original colour," he added.
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BOLIDE OVER THE SOUTH OF SPAIN (June 14) - 15 Jun 2021
This stunning fireball was spotted over the south of Spain on 14 June
2021, at about 23:33 local time (equivalent to 21:33universal time). The
event was generated by a rock from the potentially hazardous asteroid
2004HW. The rock hit the atmosphere at about 50,000 km / h and generated
a fireball that began at an altitude of about 83 km over the southwest of
the province of Málaga, and ended at a height of around 38 km over the
east of the province of Sevilla .
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Cameras record meteor fireball over northeast Brazil - 17 Jun
2021
Live Weather Cameras and our partner Bramon (Brazilian Meteor
Observatory) recorded a meteor in the Northeast this Wednesday night
(16). (16 Jun 2021)
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Meteor Fireball Over The Southwest Of Bohemia, Czech Republic - 20
Jun 2021
The meteoroid entered the Earth's atmosphere on Thursday (17 Jun
2021) shortly before 10:00 pm in the area around the German city of
Deggendorf. "At that time, the body was moving at a speed of 11.7
kilometers per second, and along a runway sloping to the earth's surface
of less than 25 degrees, it continued to fly in an east-southeast
direction and gradually brightened," said Spurný.
The meteoroid crossed the border over the Šumava Trojmezí and then faded
near the Lipno dam at a height of 32 kilometers. He covered his entire
111-kilometer track in 11 seconds.
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Cameras record meteor fireball over northeast Brazil
Residents In Maghull, England Perplexed As Loud 'Explosions' Reverberate
Throughout The Region - 22 Jun 2021
People in Maghull were perplexed as loud explosions were heard.
Residents in Maghull were left perplexed when huge explosions
reverberated throughout the region.
The bangs are thought to have originated near Ashworth Hospital in
Maghull's east end.
According to residents, they were initially heard around 9 p.m. last
night (21 Jun 2021).
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Loud Bang Heard, Green Light Seen In Northern Thailand Could Be A
Bolide - 23 Jun 2021
The mysterious explosive sound and turquoise glow seen and photographed
in northern Thailand on Tuesday evening (Jun 22, 2021)could be a
bolide, a kind of very bright meteor, said the National Astronomical
Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT).
The loud bang was heard in Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Phayao, Mae Hong Son and
Lampang provinces, while several netizens posted images of the light
moving from west to east last night.
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Bright Meteor Fireball Captured Over Switzerland - 29 Jun 2021
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 20 reports (event 3552-2021)
about a meteor fireball seen over Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Emilia-Romagna,
Ljubljana, Lombardia, Marche, Piemonte, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,
Schwyz, Ticino, Toscana, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Wallis on
Sunday, June 27th 2021 around 21:01 UT.
Two videos were uploaded to the AMS website.
- Secondary Data
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INCREASED FIREBALL SIGHTINGS COINCIDE WITH THE SPIKE IN NEAR-EARTH
ASTEROIDS
- 2021
Interestingly enough, the number of fireballs has
been
ramping up over the past decade. In 2010, for example, there were a total
of 18
reported fireball sightings. Compare that to 386 in 2020. The contrast is
concerning.
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Signs the next little ice age has just started! - Jan 5, 2021
The temperature of the Global Lower Atmosphere has plunged by almost half
a degree Celsius from February 2020 high of 0.76°C to just 0.27°C above
baseline in December 2020.
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Asteroid Bigger Than Statue Of Liberty Set For Earth Flyby, But BIG ONE
Of 2021 To Come In March, NASA warns - 10 Feb 2021
On February 10 alone, at least four Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are due to
buzz the Earth.
The nine-meter asteroid 2021 CX has already passed the planet at a safe
distance of 1.9 million kilometers.
Space rocks including the Statue of Liberty-sized, 119-meter long 2019
YP5 and the 5-meter 2008 DB will follow shortly after at a distance of 3.1
million km and 5 million km respectively.
Bringing up the rear on Wednesday will be 2021 CE3, with a diameter of
16m, which will pass the planet at a distance of 7.3 million km.
Less than 24 hours later, proving that size doesn't always matter when it
comes to the threat posed by space rocks, the six-meter asteroid 2021 CU1 will
pass the planet at 605,113 km.
Soon after, not to be outdone in scaring the hell out of stargazing
earthlings, asteroid 2021 CO, measuring 32 metres in length, will come between us and
the moon at a distance of 345,885 km and a speed of 41,000 kilometers per
hour.
Lest anyone get too comfy, in March NASA is warning of the Golden Gate
Bridge-sized asteroid 2001 FO32, with an estimated diameter of somewhere between
769m to 1.6km, which is expected to pass within 2 million km of our planet.
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An asteroid the size of the Seattle Space Needle will pass near Earth on
Tuesday - 01 Jun 2021
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COMET THE SIZE OF STAR WARS' DEATH STAR SPOTTED HEADING TOWARDS OUR SOLAR
SYSTEM - 25/06/2021
Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein - named after the astronomers who found it
- is currently beyond the orbit of Neptune, the furthest planet from the
sun. It was found by Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein, who did a
deep-dive into data collected by the Dark Energy Survey's massive
telescope in the Chilean Andes.
At first they weren't sure what it was, until another astronomer pointed
a telescope in Namibia in its direction and saw it developing a coma,
confirming it's a comet.
Its estimated size is 160km across, making it easily the biggest comet
ever seen in modern times - nearly three times wider than Comet Hale-Bopp
and 29 times wider than Halley's Comet. The biggest comet ever recorded
was Sarabat in 1729 at 100km wide.