Reports Report 5048l (Event 5048-2025)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kathryn f |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | Why are planes in the air with stuff like that in the sky? I’ve never seen a falling star before and second-guessed whether it was natural or the start of alien invasion or nuclear attack. I walked out further and looked around for more because it was so completely different than all the meteor showers, and shooting stars, and satellites that i have seen my entire life. However, AI then told me about the Perseid fireballs from May to late August 2025. Fireball seems appropriate if not either of the aforementioned. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Saginaw, TX |
| Latitude | 32° 51' 57.57'' N (32.865991°) |
| Longitude | 97° 22' 33.43'' W (-97.375953°) |
| Elevation | 230.131134m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2025-08-15 22:05 CDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2025-08-16 03:05 UT |
| Duration | ≈1.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 260° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 281.04° |
| First azimuth | 304.66° |
| First elevation | 63° |
| Last azimuth | 294.66° |
| Last elevation | 19° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -20 |
| Color | Orange, Yellow, Red |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 3s |
| Length | 10° |
| Remarks | This was the brightest, longest, largest, widest, slowest, and closest shooting star I have ever seen in my life. No noise at all and it just seemed very smooth. The train had “girth and was mostly yellow-red; I don’t remember which color was first. The tail changed colors upon appearing like it was burning but it never went away; just changed colors until the “end point” where pieces broke up and were on fire and red to orange then yellow then white at the end point. When that stopped burning completely then the tail disappeared backwards from how it started. It disappeared from west - east. As it first came across the sky, it came from over my house and came more across heading west. It seemed more like a bulllet trajectory where it shoots out and across and further it goes it falls down at the end. Once I saw it, it was never out of sight, meaning it did not continue long enough to go down and disappear behind the houses and then burn up. It burned up in the sky. And it was wide and long. It seemed more like a horizontal part of a satellite that fell but not longways/it fell perpendicular across the sky and left a rectangle tail from east to west across the north Texas sky. At the end there was mostly red and yellow then some white but spurts of a little green and blue shades as well, just less then then the yellow, org, and red. No noise at all. Like it was in a vacuum. No explosion. There was fragmentation. I hope the degree for how long the train was does not mean an arms length in space; i hope the proportion from up close to out in the sky is being accounted for because the train was probably miles long not an arms length. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Fragmentation: more fragmentation than I expected, more than how a regular meteor has always looked. Again, seem like a tubular or perpendicular object to my view, it was longways n-s and perpendicular to e-w but traveling from e-w across the sky, the end point that fragmented the right side started to break apart first then the left had many many more tinier pieces it broke into and looked like paper on fire breaking up, or the hot Ashe from burning paper disintegrating in the sky, but it definitely wasn’t paper, no smoke and better colors. |