Major Fireball Event over the English Channel

The American Meteor Society and the International Meteor Association received over 50 reports so far about a fireball event over the English Channel on August 30th 2015 around 19:30UT. Observers from as far center of France reported seeing a bright light in the sky. Below is a heat map of the witness reports.

AMS Event #2015-2090 – Heatmap

The preliminary estimated trajectory plotted from the witness reports shows the meteor was traveling from the south east to the north west and ended its (visible) flight few miles sougth of Brighton, UK.

AMS Event #2015-2090 – Trajectory

Below is the witness map of the event:

AMS Event #2015-2090 – Reports

If you witnessed this firebal please fill out an official fireball report.

You can also use the French version or the dutch version of the form.

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Tags: English Channel fireball France UK

Vincent Perlerin

Vincent Perlerin, PhD used to be a researcher in Computational Linguistics. He is now a software developer, a web designer, a community manager, an illustrator and many other things. He is working on the American Meteor Society under the supervision of Mike Hankey. Vincent is the lead developer of all the AMS projects. He's also the lead developer of the International Meteor Organization Website and the IMO online Databases management system.