Reports Report 5156bc (Event 5156-2019)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Cindy P |
| Experience Level | 2/5 |
| Remarks | I am 70 yrs old and a casual observer of the night sky, but over the years have been lucky enough to have unexpectedly seen a large greenish white fireball (roughly from my perspective like the size of a softball) in the early evening sky in Folsom, CA in the early 1990s, a missile launch over the ocean from a dive boat off the Channel Islands in Southern California in the early 1970s, and more recently a private rocket launch from Vandenberg AF Base while driving south at night on Hwy 101 from Willits to the SF Bay Area, as well as occasional meteor showers. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Willits, CA |
| Latitude | 39° 35' 29.87'' N (39.59163°) |
| Longitude | 123° 25' 24.85'' W (-123.423569°) |
| Elevation | 561.124084m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2019-10-19 21:15 PDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2019-10-20 04:15 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 257° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 25° |
| First azimuth | 25° |
| First elevation | 12° |
| Last azimuth | 4° |
| Last elevation | 2° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -5 |
| Color | Bright silver white |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Halfway through the sighting it split into 2 equal parts with a bright burst, one now trailing the other (the trailing one still at a higher elevation) as they both plummeted in an apparent westward and downward path (moving right to left) until they both burned out just as the first one dipped below the tree line. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Just as the single meteor object broke in two, a tiny fragment shot off to the right and burned out immediately. |