Fireballs

The American Meteor Society has so far received nearly 40 reports of a bright fireball over much of the Midwestern states including Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, and Kentucky . This event occurred near 8:20pm CDT Wednesday evening April 11th.… Read More >

The American Meteor Society has so far received approximately 20 reports of a dazzling fireball over much of the midwestern states. This event occurred near 6:45am CDT Tuesday morning March 13th. Reports of many different colors have been received, with… Read More >

The American Meteor Society has received reports of two more bright fireballs occurring on March 5th. We have received approximately 20 reports of the first fireball, which appeared near 5:35am CST (6:35am EST). It appeared over the mid-western states ranging… Read More >

The American Meteor Society has so far received approximately 125 reports of a dazzling fireball over much of the United Kingdom. This event occurred near 21:40  GMT (9:40pm) on Saturday evening March 3rd. Reports of many different colors of this… Read More >

The American Meteor Society has so far received approximately 30 reports of a dazzling fireball over much of the New England states and Quebec, Canada. This event occurred near 10:15pm EST Tuesday evening February 28th. Reports of many different colors… Read More >

We just got this email from Bill Cooke, the directory of the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office. Great work Bill! We have spent the last few days analyzing the Sandia camera videos kindly provided by James Beauchamp and Kevin Palivec (also… Read More >

Over 54 fireball witness reports have been logged with the AMS regarding a large fireball seen from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware & Virginia on Friday night at 10:20 PM. From Washington VA It was very intensely bright and large and appeared to be… Read More >

The American Meteor Society has received over 125 witness reports about a large fireball spotted over central texas. Click the map below for an interactive witness map for this event. After the map loads, click the icons for the people to see… Read More >

The American Meteor Society has so far received approximately 50 reports of a bright fireball over much of the southwestern states of the USA,  from Colorado to California.  Most of the reports have come from Arizona and New Mexico. This… Read More >

The American Meteor Society has so far received approximately 50 reports of a dazzling fireball over much of the eastern half of the USA, stretching all the way from South Carolina to Wisconsin.  Most of the reports have come from… Read More >

The American Meteor Society has so far received approximately 25 reports of a dazzling fireball over the southeastern USA including Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas.  This event occurred near 7:20pm EDT Monday evening October 24th. Of the reports received so far,… Read More >

The American Meteor Society has so far received approximately 50 reports of a dazzling fireball over the southeastern USA including Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.   This event occurred near 8:40pm EDT (7:40pm CDT) Thursday evening October 6th. Of the reports… Read More >