NASA fireballs page has been updated with a bolide meteor with 1.2kt of Calculated Total Impact Energy. The bolide's position was given as 15.8N,11.9W.
The bolide was detected on Monday 27 June at 10:02UTC, possessed a velocity(x) of -29.1 km/s or 18.2 miles/sec (65,475 mph) and was reported at an altitude of 33km (20 miles).
Background Situation
New asteroid discoveries are currently in somewhat of a lull, with only 10 new discoveries in the <0.5AU range within the last 2 weeks (Period "M"). The numbers of new <0.5AU discoveries have been in decline since period "G" (Apr1-Apr15), with a similar trend for <5LD asteroids since period "E" (Mar1-Mar15).
2016 MA was the only <5LD asteroid discovered during period "M" and made its close-approach on June 19 at a distance of 2.6LD. New period "N" begins tomorrow (July 1).
So far, in 2016, there have been 29,849 new <0.5AU discoveries and 211 <10LD discoveries.
(Source for all stats: eissco.co.uk).
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Huge Fireball with sonic and fragmentation reports NE US May 17th 2016 00:50 EDT (04:50 UTC) Multiple videos. $20,000 reward for a piece of the meteorite weighing at least 2.2 pounds.
MeteorRats Scramble! Rocks likely on the ground!
“I’m not going to say absolutely it didn’t produce meteorites on the ground, but I have not seen a Doppler signature that would suggest that,” Cooke said Friday night from the Marshall Space Flight Center near Huntsville, Alabama.
This animation shows the orbit of the fireball that occurred over New Hampshire/Maine around 12:50 AM EDT on May 17 (night of May 16). Once the meteoroid gets very close to Earth, the view shifts to the fireball's perspective, depicting what a camera attached to the meteor would show as it plunges towards Earth.
Credit- AMS
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ontario (Canada) and Québec (Canada)
The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum suspects the meteor crashed into the woods of northwestern Maine, based on preliminary findings. It's offering a $20,000 reward if someone recovers a piece of the meteorite weighing at least 2.2 pounds.http://phys.org/news/2016-05-meteor-captured-dashcam-video-england.html#jCp
As reported earlier today, by UK Meteor Observation Network:
reported by meteordetective
"Very large fireball reported by public was first noticed by our Church Crookham station at 3:16 this morning. It momentarily overloaded the camera with light and with second video we will be able to triangulate and calculate the orbit soon."
Please visit their webpage to view multiple views of the bolide, which was captured by cameras across the UK - including the Natural History Museum in London.
Fireball over Southern Germany: Sun 06 Mar, 22:37CET/21:37GMT
reported by meteordetective
Post on German website/magazine: "Cologne News Magazine"
Original Source:
http://www.rundschau-online.de/aus-aller-welt/megaheller-meteor-polizei-wegen-feuerkugel-am-himmel-ueber-sueddeutschland-alarmiert-23681638
"Straubing - A particularly bright shooting star has made in the early hours of Monday in southern Germany a stir. Several eyewitnesses from Bavaria alerted the police because of the celestial phenomenon. As the University Observatory in Munich reported that there was a meteor that was visible from Bavaria to the Saarland."
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2 x Major USA fireball events: Sunday 06-March-2016
reported by meteordetective
INITIAL POSTING: Mon-07-Mar-2016: 07:20GMT
Update 6) Tue 08-Mar-2015, 19:35Z
A video of what might be a third event at 21:45 Pacific has been posted to Youtube on XenonRocket's Channel. I'm unable (no e-mail address available) to contact the YouTuber directly, but here's the embedded video. According to the directions & location provided, the meteor seems to be travelling NE->SW.
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Update 5) Tue-08-Mar-2015, 05:00Z
Overnight, I had a witness from the Dallas event e-mail me a full set of answers to the Sightings Questionnaire, which was invaluable in assessing the Texas sighting of 20:45 Central Time on Sunday 6-March-2016.
It would appear to have been a large bolide (-4 mag.) travelling South-North on a moderate descending trajectory. The witness described the bolide as "Light orange in front with blue long tail. Very blue almost totally round in front then narrowing tail. Not like a far away shooting star." Note the use of the word "round". With regard to size, the witness states that it was: "Rounded front part was about size of thumb" (at arm's length), so the bolide was clearly large in size.
I'm still struggling to find any photos or videos of the event, so if you should find any, please let me know?
Thank you.
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Update 4) Mon-07-Mar-2015, 19Z43.
Second confirmation that the 8:15 pm is a distinct and separate (and I believe to be space-trash at this point) event - compared to the slightly later 20:26 event (which looks like a proper fireball). Second witness suggests that the space-trash landed east of route 101 - after coming-in at a steep angle.
No media coverage??
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Update 3) Mon-07-Mar-2016, 18Z53.
Well, it seems that at least one of the California events was something man-made re-entering our atmosphere. I've also had a report by e-mail of a potentially earlier event - around 8:10pm Pacific Time. Here's the first video I've seen of what I strongly suspect is NOT a meteor/meteorite (at least for one of the California sightings).
It looks like 2 events, 2 hours apart. Initial reports are that the California fireball' was very large, although the 15-20 seconds sighting-length of the CA event suggests space-trash? More data needed, please!
a) Texas, 20:45 Central Time / 02:45GMT
b) California, 20:25 Pacific Time / 04:25 GMT
I've checked by telephone with Vandenburg AF Base and they were not aware of any launches etc.
AMS' pending queue does not reflect the traffic that LunarMeteoriteHunters has been receiving, but AMS has both events in pending status.
END UPDATE
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Website traffic & a couple of e-mails suggest that there's been a major event over California USA on Sunday evening at +/- 8:30PM local time, with a second report from Dallas, TX for a similar time (don't know whether the events are related/same at this point).
If you witnessed this event and/or have images / video which you are happy to be posted (with credit) here on Lunar Meteorite Hunters website/blog, then please e-mail meteordetective@gmail.com with the following information, if possible.
1) Time and location of sighting
2) Angle from observer to the object in the sky - i.e. 90 deg. = overhead to 0 deg. = ground-level.
3) Estimated elevation/height of the object(s)
4) Apparent direction of travel: decent angle (e.g. 45 deg. down) + azimuth (N to S etc)
5) Estimated size of the object(s) - using your thumb/thumbnail at arm's length as a comparison.
6) Velocity: How many seconds to cross what portion (e.g. 1/2) of the sky
Thank you for your contributions and information. My intention is to post more information, along with the best images & videos - once I have more detail.
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Major bolide over North Scotland, 29-Feb-2016!
reported by meteordetective
** Update: 01-Mar-2016, 23:24Z.
Well, it seems that the excitement and news coverage of this event were equally high. All data, reports and first-hand sightings which I've seen in the 24 hours since the meteor buzzed the Scottish highlands - point towards a near-miss (for a surface impact).
According to a report which was included in the Independent's coverage, people could smell burning afterwards: "Here in Carrbridge we saw it very clearly as a bright blue light for three or four seconds at 6.45pm followed by a distinct burning smell in the air for a few minutes after." (Carrbridge is 33km / 20mi SE of Inverness). If it's true that you could smell burning and that burning was a direct result of the meteor and nothing else, it seems to me that Scotland just had a close-call.
"Looking south from our living room I noticed the sky suddenly lighting up extremely bright for a few seconds. The light was flickering and in a blue / green color. After about 3-5 minutes I could hear two explosions. It sounded like a very low frequency rumble coming from a great distance. (Estimated distance for 3-5 minutes would be between 60 - 100 Km.)" Unfortunately, he didn't mention where he lives.
"..this one would have been about 10cm (4in) across." and "...it probably burnt up at an altitude of 20 miles (32km) without any pieces reaching Earth."
I'm not so sure that I agree with his analysis. Something which burns-up at 20 miles in the sky is unlikely to leave a burning smell on the ground just minutes after the event. What I saw looked significantly larger than 10cm across, too.
Kudos and thanks to Ian Sample (Science Editor of The Guardian) for being on-the-ball and for being helpful, and likewise to the senders of the report I received from Seaham Harbour, County Durham.
For those of you whom are already familiar with Genesis, here's a little something on the sky-watching theme to enjoy. For those of you unfamiliar with Genesis, this was "prog(ressive) rock" at its finest.
Keep your eyes on the skies.
** Update: 01-Mar-2016, 07:54Z.
Many people have reported a major bolide sighting over Northern Scotland during the evening of Mon 29-Feb-2016. I'm still collating/determining all the information, but it looks to have tracked ESE->WNW at around 18:45Z. The bolide turned night in to day for a few seconds.
This appears to be an unknown/undetected meteor/meteorite. Of the latest 3 discoveries, the closest (by time/date proximity) is 2016 DL1 with a close-approach of 4.68LD at 01-March at 18:22Z, but I don't think the Scottish bolide and 2016 DL1 are related, at the moment.
A second, HD, video which shows the meteor itself has been published to Youtube by the owner of the dashcam and has allowed a track of East-to-West (at an approximate latitude of 57.2º) west of Aberdeen to be established (and coordinated with the Glenlivet sighting). (Click thumbnail to enlarge screenshot, below).
The meteor appears to have produced one or more sonic booms and disintegrated during descent, so there *may* be meteorites on the ground on a track of, roughly, Aberdeen-Aviemore-Fort Augustus...but likely further west than this, too.
Meteor Observed: NE Coast of Morocco, Friday 19 Feb 2016, 19:06Z
reported by meteordetective
"Fireball observed over Morocco on 19 Feb. 2016, at 19h 06 m UT. The event was recorded by several meteor observing stations operated by the University of Huelva in Spain."
Direction of travel: NNW -> SSE, Descent angle: +/- 30 degrees. Approx Lat/Long: 35.65N,4.90W.
Posted to YouTube by Meteors.
The earliest reports came from late November 1948, but were at first dismissed as military green flares. Then on the night of December 5, two separate plane crews in New Mexico, one military and one civilian, asserted that they had each seen strange green lights, though about 20 minutes apart. The military pilots were near Las Vegas, New Mexico, and described the light as intense, and if a flare, it was the strangest one they had ever seen. The civilian pilot was near Albuquerque and described the light as pale green. It appeared to come straight at them on a collision course, forcing the pilot to swerve the plane.
In addition, on the same night, a dozen green fireballs were seen traveling generally north to south between 7:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. by security guards at military installations in the vicinity of Albuquerque and Las Vegas, New Mexico. The sightings near Albuquerque were at Sandia base, a highly sensitive installation where atomic bombs were assembled near Kirtland Air Force Base. The next night, a similar green light was again spotted for a few seconds over Sandia base.
AFOSI consulted Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, an astronomer from the University of New Mexico and a world renowned meteor expert who had previously worked on top-secret military projects. LaPaz himself saw a "green fireball" on December 12, which was also seen at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, enabling LaPaz to determine the trajectory using triangulation. From this LaPaz discovered that the center of the trajectory was straight over Los Alamos.
Project Twinkle
Finally, on December 20 after nearly a year of foot-dragging, the instrument observation program was approved and Project Twinkle was born. The first instrument post (consisting of two officers) was established at Holloman Air Force Base in February 1950. Only one other instrument post was ever set up. LaPaz criticized Project Twinkle as inadequate, arguing the green fireballs were worthy of "intensive, systematic investigation". Twinkle did manage to record a few events, but the data collected was said to be incomplete in the final Twinkle report. Besides, it was stated, no funding had been provided for follow-up data analysis. In addition, the fireball activity near the observation posts seemed to virtually disappear, as noted in a report from September: "It may be considered significant that fireballs have ceased abruptly as soon as a systematic watch was set up."
Over the objections of LaPaz and others, the final report on Project Twinkle concluded the green lights were probably a natural event, maybe sunspot activity or an unusual concentration of meteors. The report stated, "There has been no indication that even the somewhat strange observations often called 'Green Fireballs' are anything but natural phenomena." Twinkle was discontinued in December 1951.
Despite efforts of the final Twinkle report to downplay the fireballs and other studied UFO phenomena as natural, a follow-up report in February 1952 from the USAF Directorate of Intelligence disagreed:
The Scientific Advisory Board Secretariat has suggested that this project not be declassified for a variety of reasons, chief among which is that no scientific explanation for any of the fireballs and other phenomena was revealed by the report and that some reputable scientists still believe that the observed phenomena are man-made.
It was also stated that some of the scientists continued to believe they were Russian spy devices. Besides LaPaz, this included Dr. Anthony Mirarchi, the first director of Project Twinkle.
The following month, another letter from the Directorate of Intelligence to the Research Division of the Directorate of Research and Development again stated that the report should not be publicly released, since no real solution had been provided:
It is believed that a release of the information to the public in its present condition would cause undue speculation and give rise to unwarranted fears among the populace such as occurred in previous releases on unidentified flying objects. This results from releases when there has been no real solution.
Brasília, Brasil Fireball Meteor 29JUL2014
August Beta Capricornids Fireball
August Beta Capricornids Fireball
Posted to YouTube by Carlos Bella 19 views
Published on Jul 31, 2014
Max magnitude -6,8, multiple detonations.
Captured over Brasília, Brazil by Samambaia Station meteorcam - BRAMON Network
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Fireball in Russia’s Far East puzzles sky-watchers (VIDEO) RT.com
Published time: September 01, 2013 14:23 Edited time: September 02, 2013 08:48
video credit- RT.comWitnesses said the early morning sky over Russky Island, across Vladivostok Bay, was lit up by a fireball, which later turned into a flaming line that remained in the sky for an hour and a half. .more -.http://rt.com/news/russia-far-east-meteor-278/
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Breathtaking Meteor Shower Video Taken against Starry Winter's Night in Nagano ROCKETNEWS24 If you were to ask me to go out at midnight in the middle of December and look for meteors, I would say “No way, I'm watching a Very Brady Christmas. Get out of here.” However, in the evening around December 14, while many of us were warmly tucked away ...
Meteor Strike On Christmas Eve 1965 Guardian Express On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1965, the villagers of Barwell, in Leicester (pronounced “Less-ta”) were host to the largest meteorite to strike Britain, a 100 lb chunk of space rock that burst into pieces just prior to striking. The original chunk has ...
Dramatic Sutter's Mill meteorite proves rare scientific treasure Los Angeles Times The Sutter's Mill meteor shows chemical evidence of a complex formation history -- evidence that would have been wiped out by the rain, said lead author Peter Jenniskens, a meteor astronomer at the NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute in ...
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MBIQ Bot Indicates that Alberta / B.C. Hit by something Big Bolide? -No Info yet 09SEP2012
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09SEP2012Sharon & Brad HunterPanask Summit, Coquihalla Highway, BC14:48:003 to 4 secondsSouth EastFire BallSame as the sunno Fell almost in front of us, approx 2 km away
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Breaking Major News - MBIQ Indicates Large Bolide Meteor Fireball Seen in Germany, Holland, France, Luxenbourg, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, and the Czech Republic ~17:30 (GMT+1) 24DEC2011 Meteor or Space Trash? Duration indicates Space Trash But NOT Confirmed.
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Researcher Daniel Fischer, Germany, writes: It's already obvious that these reports - as well as the panicky eyewitness videohttp://yfrog.com/7251452653z - refer to the reentry ofthe upper stage of the Soyuz that launched the last ISS crew increment: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2011/12/breaking-news-decay-of-soyuz-rb-stage.html (found this all out within minutes thanks to Twitter, by the way). Funny a Dutchman was aboard, and now the debris has burned up over the Netherlands. :-) Daniel
Komet über Deutschland am 24.12.2011
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24DEC2011Chris FischerVaihingen a.d. Enz, Germany17:30 CET20-30W-EWhite, no soundSlightly darker than moon.Dense cluster of fragments.Shortly disappeared behind clouds.
24/12/2011Marco HofmannMagdeburg/ Sachsen-Anhalt17:30:0015-20 secN-WYellow- white large tail with fireMoonAfter 20 seconds it split into fragmentsIn the German TV news told that it could be a burnt piece of a space rocket.
24DEC2011Leon van de PeppelArnhem17:30 CETAbout 20 sec. what i sawSW;NEWhite, Yellowbrighter then the MoonLong stream of fragments behind (tail)No
24dec2011Gerjan krulNieuwleusen, netherlands17:25 gmt+ 130Right to leftYellowBrighter theb venusLast 5 seconds there were parts falling off.I was walking the dog when i looked in the sky, I thought it was a plane, but there were no blinking lights. I could watch it for 30 secs. It was bright yellow with a long tale. At last it fell a part and it vanished. My firts thought: WTF?!
24DEC2011KASEYBAUMHOLDER GERMANY173030 SECNOT SURE IT WAS MY HUSBAND WHO SAW ITGOLDMOONYESNONE
12/24/2011Davide PirottiTORINO ( ITALY )17.30 CET30 to 40 secWest to Eastwarm white t oyellowmore than moon2 fragments - big vapour trailImpressive
24Dez2011Birgit HaasSprendlingen/Deutschland17.3550Right to Leftwhite/yellowFireball5-6 FragmentEs sah aus wie eine riesen Sternschnuppe mit sehr langem weissen Schweif, sehr schnell und kurz vor dem Verschwinden zerteilte sich der Feuerball noch einmal
24DEC2011KatieWaiblingen, Germany17:30/ CET5-15 secWest to EastRed, White, Orange, YellowAt least moon, maybe moreYes, 5 or 6 big pieces, more smaller ones (at least 10-12 total)Incredible, never seen anything like it before, Had a tail, long and thick
12/24/2011Allison ReedDijon, France17:30:0015-30 seconds possiblyLeft to RightWhite light; no soundApproximate brightness of moonThere was a tail akin to a cometVery bright ball with a long tail. It lasted fir a remarkable length of time.
24DEC2011ElisaRhode Saint Genese (near Brussels), BELGIUM17.25 UTC+115 seconds, but did not see the beginningSW-Every bright, warm colours, some fog around it, extremely long and thick tail, soundlessquite brighti did not see fragments, but i only saw the last 15 seconds before it disappeared towards the horizonthe warm colours that i saw (yellow/pink) might have been influenced by the remainder of the sun, as the sky was not entirely dark yet
24DEC2011COUSSOT Jean-LouisMâcon - France16 h 30 zulu time (17 h 30 local time)seen 10-15 second, then was masqued by cloudsfrom west to eastvery white, can't ear sound because I was driving my carmore than venusno fragments, but a nice tailTime is aproximative, I vas driving and I did'nt look at my clock. From Mâcon, it was 20-30° above horizon.
24Dec2011RomainHalle/Saale, Germany17:24 METmax. 20 secEast Right to Leftyellow, red sparkles, no sound audibleairplane searchlighta lot of fading fragmentsI've seen a lightball up to an minute before the major event. Unfortunally the sky was cloudy so it might be possible that the object travels from south to east.
12/24/2011OLIVIER FILLERForbach17.351min17.32 / 17.34Sun / red no soundAs sunI think there were fragment falled but I dont know whereIt was so big, big duration, brightness. It break in two parts
24dec2011Fabian verminDinteloord, netherlands17:30:0015 secW;S-ELarge GoreMoonS-EBright fire stripe
24DEC2011Jutta MuehlsteffDRENSTEINFURT near MUENSTER, GERMANY17:27/ CET20 - 30 secfrom right to left, W-Enothing heard, saw a huge burning object, first thought that it was something like an airplane crashing down/the object was orange and yellow, so actually looking like firenearly as bright as the sunno fragmentsit seemed very close to earth and had an increasing speed
24.12.2011Alex SouthHameln Germany16.33o secswest to eastwhite/ orangevenusbroke up as we watchedTail bcame wider once broke up.
24/12/2011BERNARD MélaniePierrefontaine les Blamont, France17h272 minWest-Eastyellow orange with white tailsunyesimpressed
24.12.2011Marie PolliLugano Switzerland17.30 +1gmt30 sec.17.30 from W to E, I was travelling from S to Nany sound, yellowvery brightnessvery big, it disappear over the mountainsvery beautiful
24dec2011Hermann MeurerHodeng Au Bosc17.30 CET45 secSE - NWBright clear LightSuntail of burning fragmentsLow tractory - almost like airplane but to fast.
24DEC2011MarcelBüdingen, Germany17:25:0045 secS-W;N-ENo soundBright Not where I live. Most likely everything burned during the re-entryI took a video and posted it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyC_fNsQ2mg
24DEC2011TtonyLuxembourg cityApprox 17.308 secondsEast to WestWhite with tail of debrisBrightParts falling off towards the WestVery bright and large
24DEC2011Achim MaierLutzerath, Eifel, Germanyapprox. 17:251 MinuteFrom West to Eastbright yellow-white, flamelike tail. The travelling path could be seen over a long time and distance. At the end it disintegrated completly.Moonlike BrightnessLoads of parts breaking away. Incredible sight. Where 3 eye-whitnessses who never saw something like this before. First thought of a plane crashing.
24Dec2011stefan albersMünster Germanyca. 17:30+xca 90 secwsw / ese - right to leftOne very bright, white, shining Objekt with a very long fire tail. After ca. 20 sec the objekt fell apart into several smaler objekts loosing its brightness. The smaller objekts had a more orange/yellow color. From our location the objekt fell apart in the south. The group of smaller objekts disapeared east/south/east of our location. The flightway was nearly horizontal, speed constant untill it fell apart then becoming little slower. bright fireballone objekt very bright, falling apart into 5-10 smaller psorry, no photo
24DEC2011KatherineBaumholder, Germany173045 secondsRight to LeftFire Ball looking with a really long tailSunLooked like sparklers falling offIt was very big. The way I could best describe it is as a "shooting star" but very large and very slow. If a shooting star was extremely close to earth, I imagine this is what it would look like. At first we were scared, we didn't know if it was a plane on fire and decending. We watched it for about 45 seconds then it passed behind our building.
24DEC2011onurbBEAUNE17h30 (GMT+1)60secNO-NEyellow/orangevenussmalls explosionsyellow/orange with smalls fragments
24DEC2011Klaus ZErhaft86633 Neuburg, GErmanyca 17:30 CETca 20 sec due to cloudsNW to NEyellowish sparkling no soundbrighter than moonfirst two parts, then one in front, at least eight smaller followingno
24DEZ2011Christian NiederauerLandshut, Germany17.30 (mesz+1)10left to rightwhite colormoonmany fragments-
24Dec2011Henning and DinaLueneburg, Germany17.30 (GMT+1)30N-Egreen, yellow, redmoonone piece falling apart into ~5 bigger onesseemed to be slow, maybe bigger distance form earth?
24DEZ2011Daniel SchmidtSolingen, Germany17:37 h , CET20 - 30 secW-EHe looks like Burning. I think he exploded. Five to ten seconds later there was a bangThe brightness was changed frequently.I don't know. I think he is exploded.Was it a Meteor ?
24DEC11EricaGaiberg, Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany1740 Central European Time1-2 minutesall the way across the sky, west to eastYellow in colorSame as moon, VERY brightlong stream of fragments behind (tail)This was incredible.
24DEC2011Joseph MartinKaiserslautern, Germany1730L30 SecNWYellow/OrangeMoonYes. Parts falling off.Looking west from Kaisreslautern
24 12 2011JACOBY JJPONT A MOUSSON 17H25 FRANCE50 SECFROM SO TO NERED ORANGEmoon +++?????
24DEC2011Isaac DavidMühlhausen Thüringen Germany17:45 CET30 secS-W;N-E.Bright white and yellowMoon brightnessAfter 20 seconds it split into fragmentsIt was a big fireball with a long tale that lit up the sky, and after a few seconds it crumbled into smaller fragments
24DEC2011AlainAvelgem, BELGIUM1730 AOne minuteDirection of Travel: NORTH-EAST, YellowVery brightNo fragment, lots of sparksProbably flew over Brussels
24DEC2011AngelaPforzheim, Germany21:14:00Very long, you could tell it was bright until it crashed West/EastWhite in color. no sound, saw huge thick tail.. Split in two while breaking up.. HUGESUNYes, Broke in 2Very big and bright, huge tail..definitely crashed on Earth
24/12/2011David FinchDusseldorf, Germany17:20 CETapproximately 2 minuteswsw-eneYellow ball with trailing contrail, eventually broke into multiple smaller fragments brighter than anything else in the skyFragments continuing in same direction as original object but with gradually trajectorieswideningN/A
24DEC2011Dick vd KnaapHENGELO NETHERLANDS17.25 utc+1over 2 minutesSW-SW abt 10-15 degr above horizonmainly whitelarger then venusyesmaybe piece of spacejunk?
24DEC2011Thorsten & ThordisNieder-Olm, Germany17:30:0040 secWest to Eastwhite, red sparkles, brighter than Venus, less than moonYesAmazing
24.12.2011Joshua Luke Claudio Nürburgring Eifel Germany5.30 p. M. App. 1 MinuteWest to EastBright yellowish to OrangeMoon-Very Long duration...Must have been THE xmas star : ) the Timeline coincidence is quite baffling
24/12/2011Jan BoertienEmmen, The Netherlands17.25app. 2 minutesRight to LeftYellow/white large tail with fire(20x object)MoonIn the large tail sometimes fire piecessmall film off bad quality
24DEC2011JulienMainz, Germany1730 UTC+1over 30 secWSW-ESEyellow, white / no sound heardVery bright (as the moon)yesNever seen that before, very bright and big, a vapor trail behind was visible, it disappeared behind buildings. For a shooting star it was very big and slow but for an aircraft it was way too fast!
24DEC2011Angelika HumbertGriesheim, Germany17:30 CET25secW-EWhite, blue, brightMoonfragments, 4seems to burn
24DEC2011ChrisSteinsel, Luxembourg17:28 CET30 secWorange/redbrighter than Venussome, very smallit was definitely Santa Claus! :)
24DEC2011ElvinMetz, France17:45 pm30 secW-ENo sound, the ball was big and very bright, with a very long tail of different colorsSunYesI noticed small parts falling of while going towards east
24DEC2011François WPeruwelz, Belgium17h2015-20secE right to leftwhitehightyesamazing!
24Dec2011Gretchen KuchtaBrucken(Pfalz), Germany17:30:00Over 1 minuteW-ELarge yellow/orange ball with tail and fragmentsBrighter than moonYes many fragmentsLeft a trail like a plane in the sky. Something was definitely burning.
24DEC2011AndyMontfort17:25 CET10 sec-20 secTravelling from south to nord. didn't stop in the sky, but disappeared behind the trees.Red/orange color without soundA bit brighter than the moonDidn't see there where falling part offPretty long lightstream
24DEC2011KarolinaDudelange, Luxembourg17:30:0020secW-EOne bright yellow/orange object with long tail, sparkle fire. Constant speed. No sound. Moon, warm colorsLot of parts coming offSomething burning, probably not a plane because of horizontal path.
24/12/2011massimoComo, Italy17:30:0030-40 SECONDSW-Elong yellow/orange tail. body brighter. No soundvery brightlong tail of fragmentsnever seen something similar; I even thought it was a plane in flames. It seemed very close.
24.12.2011Diego&JuanitaMoenchengladbach-rheydt, Germanz17:30:00around 30 secondsdirection east.no sound, wide and long bright yellow comet shapedbrighter than Venusno parts falling of, but a wide stripeLooked as it was not flying too high, it seemed more as an airplane in flames from our point of view
24DEC2011LolaGLuxembourg17:30:0090 secE-WYellow, long tailmoonmoonVideo
12/24/2011Ulrich SchäfferBensheim/Hesse/Germany17:40 CET10 s - disappeared behind Bergstrasse mountainsDirection: Eastyellow and white light. Span about 10 degrees. Moved quickly. No sound.between venus and moonmultiple fragments - 5-10 pieces. one large one at the topBearing: east
24DEZ2011Frank Grajetzky59174 Kamen Germany~17:30?10-20secSW/SElight rumblefull moonyes, 4-5It went from SW over S to SE Before moving out of view it fell apart. Somehow I had the impression that it was quite near and round about 30° above horizon.
24.12.2011Bernd and NadineGerchsheim, Germany17:23 GMT+1more than 30 secondsW-Ebright whitesimilar to the moonlight-Quite amazing.We were deeply impressed. And this at Chrismas evening- we also thought of "Star of Bethlehem".
24DEZ2011NepomukGIessen17:20 MEZ15secW-Eorange red whitemoonNoit looked like the Christmas Star
24DEC2011ROGER SIEUW7910 WATTRIPONT BELGIUM+/- 5.25 pm (GMT+1)About 15 secfrom W to NE/ELong Yellow trail of fireBrighter than moonlight, more yellow/orange colorNoWas just going to enter my car
24.12.2011Jürgen LuxKaiserslautern, Germanyca. 17:25seen for 5-10 seceast of Fischbachvery brigh with white, yellow, red tailvery bright (at least as bright as moon)nonever seen such a bright observation before
24DEC2011NathalieHuncherange, Luxembourg+/- 17.30 30 sec - 1meast to westno sound, white very bright, moonno no
24DEC2011JonymacBasingstoke20:05:0015 SECSSW-NEBRIGHT ORANGE/ SILENTVENUS+NOMUCH FASTER THAN A PLANE AND BRIGHTER THAN A SATELLITE; BRIGHT ORANGE
24DEC2011Benno ReinhardVaihingen, Enz, Germany17:20:00about 30 secS,Nchanged from bright white to orange/redbright like a plane landingstarted with one shining point, broke apart to 2,3 parts, later about 10 parts raining to earth at the horizonremembered me to pictures of the space shuttle crash in 2002
24.12.2011Ramoner H. LAIVES, LEIFERS, ITALY17:25 (Timezone +1)10 sec (house blocked the vision)from W to EBright Fireball, emitting sparksVenusemitting sparksno
24Dec2011SharmaLuxembourg ville, Luxembourg 17:30 hrs CET10 secWest to Eastwhite and yellow head with tailVery brightno parts falling...disappeared after following an arc pathit was very bright and was not sure what it was. 4 of us saw if from terrace
12/24/2011Ronnie SawyerKaiserslautern Germany172015-25right to leftlight orange, yellow, glitterymoonno, was entactthinking space trash, I have seen comets, and meteor showers. This was not one of the two.
24Dec2011Mark ChristensenMackenbach, Germany1730 CET45-60 seconds.From the western horizon it traveled directly east overhead until far east of me.Yellow and orange. Could see disintegration as pieces fell off.Brighter than the moon.Many fragments.It looked like it broke up and stopped glowing, maybe pieces fell to the east of me (but at that height could be many miles).
24DEC2011Alex DEuskirchen, Germany17:29 MEWT25 sec (i guess i saw the last 1/3 of its way, so it must have been about 1,5 min in total)from S to W in 50-100 km distance east from Euskirchenwhen i noticed it i thought i saw a glowing can with a tail of fire. when i opened the window (coz reflexion) the object was completely covered in flames and a few pieces fell off. Color was that of a normal fire, yellow/orange. I think i saw something glowing white before i opened the window, could be my imagination tho.same as a burning house (or two)Yes, there were about 5-10 parts falling offa once in a lifetime experience. i like to watch the sky, so i saw something similiar, but way smaler once. (duration 10 sec, fireball falling then burning up in atmosphere, same speed, same colour). this object was too slow for a meteor and way toooo fast for a plane, i guess it was about the speed of a satelite, maby a bit slower, but it was bigger than a satelite. i guess it was the size of a wagon (train). the vector and altitude were unique. it seemed like a landing plane, so the kinetic energy must have been enormous, wich means that it was a very massive object, not a rock or ice, but steel. I guess it is either a part of a space station or a massive piece of space junk. in any case, it was stunning. a nice little xmas present from the heavens ;)
24DEC2011Andrea HoehnLeimrieth/Thuringia/ GER17.30 ESTat least 30 secsW-E / left to rightyellow to orange/ no soundbright like the moonone bigger centrepiece with a few smaller pieces surrounding thatMaybe the star of Bethlehem again?
24DEC2011Mathias DebonneKORTRIJK17:00 CETAbout 15 secRight to LeftBright Yellow/OrangeAs bright as fireworksDon't know/
24DEC2011PeterKirkel / Saarland GERca. 17:30longer than 30secfrom east to west, nearly zenith position, slow movementColors were bright yellow, orange and white. first looked like ISS passing by, then I could see a faint stream like seen on high-flying airplanes, this stream remained for few minutes at the sky. no soundbrighter than venusIt looked like it´s been torn in fragments, did not see it exactly. No falling parts seen.never seen this before, really amazing, perfectly matching for X-mas when we were walking around in the fields with the children
24/11/2011Chris RobinsonStuttgart17: 2820 secondsNW to SE Left to RightBright mixture of white and yellow tail orange and red speckled headThe tail was bright white A very long tail that spanned at least half the skyAt first I thought it was a low flying jet because it seemed to have 4 separate trails.It seemed to stop quickly at this point it bcame obscured by clouds but th eglow of the trail filtered through the cloud.
24DEC2011Danny OlsonTOFTLUND, DENMARK17:27 UTC+1h30W-EWHITISH YELLOWNearly as VenusFragments and spreading trailI have discovered that my sighting was of Expedition 30's Soyuz booster.
24.12.2011Marko FuchsBreitingen (near Ulm) South Germany, in between Stuttgart and Munich.approx 17:3015 sec at leastleft-right / west-eastBright white, approx size in the sky of a fighter jet but about 20-30% faster I would say. No sound. Looked very close, saw it cover the whole sky, before it disappeared behind a low hill facing far west. As it disappeared it was starting to break up into fragments. Far east above cloud level, far east I would say below.Bright whiteYes, as I faced east.A breathtaking sight!
24/12/2011SivaLübeck17.345 sec.From Left to Right over the whole horizontwhite Yellow Orange10x venusmaybe baltic sea north over berlin?we try
12/24/2011BuckSpangdahlem AB, GermanyApprox 1530More than 2 minutes, children saw it....we ran to watch, showed dad through separate room, run outdoors and then get neighbor to watch with us.Right to leftYellow ball, white....glowing orange, looked to be on fire. Extremly bright, looked to be on fire.Yes! Husband saw it split off into at least different pieces each with their own tail. We saw them disintegrate among the trees behind our home.Awesome site! Thought satellite or possibly a plane crash since we are on a military base, quite scary.
24DEC2011Michael Thurn79853 Lenzkirch GERMANYest. 17:3010 -15 sest. W-Owhite yellowsunyesimpressive - never seen before
24.12.2011Gerhard Neinert61381 Friedrichsdorf Germany17:30 GMT+130secstarted at SE Declination 70° going eastno sound - white and redlike the moon behind some clouds - not too bright but still eye-catchingseemed to be hundreds of parts arround it - many sparksfireball with a lot of "sparks" arround and in its tail - visible for about 30seconds - turned dark red and vanished about 15° above the horizon (behind the clouds?) I'm still wondering why I could see this because at the time the sky was cloudy - was it beneath the clouds? ... or was it so bright that it shone through the clouds?
24DEZ2011MichaelLörrach (BW), Germany~ 17:30 MEZ (UTC +1:00)10 - 15 sec.W-Eno noiceseems to burnno parts falling offThis picture nearly describes what we saw: Img_16_9_450_32390328.jpg1474129217090178559.jpg
24th dec 2011FernieKaiserslautern173060sec or longerheading towards mainzBall of white no soundbright like the sunlooked like behind itAll I could think is WTF what ever it was it was traveling fast and about 15 mins latter I heard a two booming sounds, what ever it was it sounded like it crashed! I never seen anything like this in my life!
24DEC2011Brynn & TommyNeuwied, Germany17:30 Timezone CET30 secondsFrom East to West and From Right to LeftWhite ball, did not hear anything.Unnaturally lighter and brighter than the moon. There was a tail, it did not look parts were falling off. It looked like it was burning and the tail was very long and stayed in the sky for a considerable amount of time. It was slow moving too. (not like anything we have ever seen before.)
24DEC2011AngelaMunich, GermanyAround 17.30Less than 1 minuteLeft to RightWhite of a group of circa 7 stars. Not seperately, but more like in a bunch.Like falling star, but this time is around 7 stars at the same time.I don't think so. It happened so fast so I cannot take picture or video.
24.12.2011HanaPilsen, Czech Rep.17.29aprox. 20-25 sec.NW to NEglowing yellow ball with a long tail and followed by many other smaller balls with tails also.bright and warm collors of sunParts following the main onewow...amazing spectacle
24DEC2011JenniferEuerbach, Germany (Bavaria)17:30 CET30-45 secondsright to leftwhite/yellowishvery bright, like a fireballAt first, no fragment. Just a big ball of fire. Then, after it made an arc over my head, it fell to the left and broke into a few pieces.Started like a big fireball coming from the right. I thought it was some kind of shuttle taking off, which made no sense. Then, as it came closer, the big fireball began to arc right over my head and I saw it had a long white tail. As it continued it's journey, it broke off into pieces and almost seemed to glitter as the white tail followed behind. And then, after it had passed over me, it began to fall to the left and eventually burned out or something. It was the most beautiful thing I ever saw. It was like those fake xmas ornaments with a star and a tail trailing behind it. Execept it was real. Just a beautiful fireball of white with a white tail arching across the clear black sky.
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