Reports Report 1965a (Event 1965-2011)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | matt W |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | I have seen hundreds of shooting stars, never anything like this. I was so darn close...Kinda scary... |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Havre de Grace, MD |
| Latitude | 39° 35' 8.01'' N (39.585557°) |
| Longitude | 76° 12' 10.84'' W (-76.203011°) |
| Elevation | 117.739487m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2011-08-26 06:26 EDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2011-08-26 10:26 UT |
| Duration | ≈20s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 257° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 26° |
| First azimuth | - |
| First elevation | 15° |
| Last azimuth | 360° |
| Last elevation | 5° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -18 |
| Color | Pink, Blue, Light Blue, Orange, Light Yellow, Red, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | This is the first place I can type so i want to clear up some things I said to get to this page. 3 people saw this, I don't remember the exact date, could probably find out. I have seen hundreds of "shooting stars", but this one came in very very low, we could hear it (sizzle or like how a frying pan sounds, then it exploded about .2 miles(maybe 2-3 football fields away) above the ground (maybe at like 600') it exploded like a firecracker. It separated into many glowing fragments…Crazy stuff never saw a shooting star a couple hundred yards away, never heard one, never saw the last milli-second of one exploding. It has to be very rare. It was so close I thought about (and did) metal detect for remnants. 3 people were like "what the heck". yeah crazy thing to witness. Again -I am a scientist and to clarify, I don't remember the exact day and time, BUT as for location 100%. it was less than a quarter mile from us when it exploded. We watched it shrink and sizzle for over 10 seconds easy. How rare is that to see the end of a long journey through space-time. I have exact data of where it went bc I used a tree as reference for where it exploded, the information I gave earlier on this form is close, but I don't want to give away exact location online, you dig |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | the boom sound when it exploded (we where so close it lite up the ground kinda) was not that loud, like a small cannon. surprisingly not too loud,,crazy thing to SEE |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 20s |
| Length | 45° |
| Remarks | it was dusk, but the trail was colored and maybe smoky, I'll ask my wife, she was there too. the angle was more parallel than I have ever seen. kinda scary.. like what's that sound, and shoot duck!!! |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | boom, that the end of that space rock, explode but not crazy loud, like it was small and just exploded |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | green/blue then fragments turned orange (like when you weld something that cloro) for a secant and fell to ground , it was dark then |