Comments on: Lower Midwestern USA Fireball June 5, 2012

By: amanda sibio

amanda sibio — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:55:46 +0000

sighted a green meteor, seemed low to ground at 10.15 pm over Victoria, Australia. this was almost due north. Had never seen anything luke this before.

By: amsadmin

amsadmin — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:07:11 +0000

Rebecca,

These certainly sound like fireballs. Sorry but I have only been keeping track of these events since 2005, so trying to track down events from 40 years ago is nearly impossible. If you look at our fireball tables you will see that these events occur everyday. Still the odds are that people will only see 1 or 2 of these fireballs in a lifetime since folks are rarely outside at night. If they are outside, sometimes it is cloudy, which will obscure these events.

I hope this helps!

Robert Lunsford
American Meteor Society

By: Rebecca Caruso

Rebecca Caruso — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 04:22:15 +0000

Hi. I found your website when I searched for fireball January 1987. My husband and I were on our way to a hospital at around 4:00 a.m. travelling east on I-10 near New Orleans. In the eastern sky we saw a gigantic greenish to orange round light with a tail “falling” to the eastern horizon. It was visible for it seemed like 5-8 seconds. I had seen something similar at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala in October, November, or December of 1978. Could these have been fireballs? I’d never thought to look this up before. Can you help me identify these occurrences? They were spectacular. I’ll never forget them as long as I live. Thanks for what you do.

By: Hervey Carraway

Hervey Carraway — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 04:07:09 +0000

On June 5, 2012 I was returning home to Wichita, Ks from my grandsons baseball game in Towanda, Ks. I was traveling west on US 254 just east of Greenwich Road. At 2210 hrs I saw a bright, mostly greenish burning object appear out my drivers (south) window. The object appeared to be traveling east and was visible for just a few (3 to 4 maybe) seconds. Pretty cool!

By: amsadmin

amsadmin — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:14:39 +0000

Danielle and All,

There are no other reports of this event in our fireball table and unfortunately none are probably forthcoming due to the early hour. It sounds as if this fireball fragmented into four pieces before disintegrating. While rare, this fragmentation does sometimes occur with fireballs of lower velocity.

I hope this helps!

Robert Lunsford
American Meteor Society

By: Danielle Haske

Danielle Haske — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:07:49 +0000

On June 5, 2012 My husband and I were traveling home on I-75 to Cedarville Michigan from Detroit. At 3:33 am (now 6/6/12), we saw a huge meteor in the northern sky for about 15 seconds. It went behind a cloud for 3 seconds and then re-appeared. We had never seen anything like it. It was almost like 4 falling stars side by each with the middle two teal and really bright. It spanned 3 of my fingers put together. We enjoy boating and boating at night during meteor showers as we have an amazing view. I took an astronomy class during my undergrad years. (1 hour south of where I live in Mackinac City, they just created a dark sky observatory type hike to the water with planetary information along your walk. I haven’t been there yet but it is a goal I have for this summer). I’ve been looking for information on this, and the other reports even with the Texas 3 hour time difference doesn’t match the time we saw it. We thought that it may have hit somewhere in the Eastern Upper Peninsula, but after reading articles it my have hit somewhere in Canada if it hit at all. I have two bachelor degrees and I will have my Masters Degree in Social Work in August. Any feedback I could get about this would be greatly appreciated.