Reports Report 1528ir (Event 1528-2012)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | max w |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | I was outside talking to my father who lives about 50 miles away. I was looking at the ground, when there was what seemed to be a prolonged flash from a camera. (One of those very bright, professional ones.) I looked up to the sky to see a bright light, which kept getting brighte rand brighter. I realized it was moving, but didn\'t seem to going all that fast. before I knew it, it had travelled across the entire sky, with a trail that must have been (at least) 100 miles long. halfway through this experience I said to my dad \"Holy shit there\'s something in the sky\" and hung up. The whole visual experience lasted only 5 or so seconds. He called back afterward and it turns out he was under the night sky just as I when we were talking, and had also witness the entire thing! As we were talking about it, a series of 5 massive deep \"booms\" literally shook the earth beneath us. I could even hear the dogs freaking out where he was. Anyone saying that there were no booms just didn\'t experience them. It was the most amazing experience of my life. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | sonoma, CA |
| Latitude | 38° 17' 35.79'' N (38.293274°) |
| Longitude | 122° 29' 49.6'' W (-122.49711°) |
| Elevation | - |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2012-10-17 20:00 PDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2012-10-18 03:00 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From down right to up left |
| Descent Angle | 305° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 222.77686° |
| First azimuth | 209.56562° |
| First elevation | 78° |
| Last azimuth | 28.89256° |
| Last elevation | 90° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | 1 |
| Color | bright white, fragmented |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Sounds occured almost 2 minutes after initial spectacle. There were five distingtive \"booms,\" (Ground even vibrated beneath my feat, dogs erupted into frenzy; most insane experience of my life.) Then it was all over. |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 11s |
| Length | 12° |
| Remarks | Well I thought my eyes were just over-exposed for a second, but then realised there was a speckly trail where the meteor had passed. (Like it \"scarred\" the sky.) This lasted upwards of 10 seconds. (by 4 the speckles were gone, and by 8 you had to look away and back again to see the hazy strreak.) |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Broke into 4-5 seperate pieces, (VERY bright at point of fragmentation) then dissapated rather quickly. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | - |