Reports Report 6872bj (Event 6872-2025)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Drake D |
| Experience Level | 4/5 |
| Remarks | I've been looking up and studying astronomy and using telescopes my entire life. This thing was so bright and close and intense that it scared my wife and I pretty good. It was so much more intense than and video or footage of large fireballs lighting up the night sky in recent history. I sincerely cannot understand how we didn't hear a boom or anything despite being in the car driving down the road. I fully expected a Chelyabinsk-like BOOM |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Franklin, TN |
| Latitude | 35° 59' 46.68'' N (35.996299°) |
| Longitude | 87° 1' 30.24'' W (-87.025068°) |
| Elevation | 179.864273m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2025-10-14 02:18 CDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2025-10-14 07:18 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 136° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 144.17° |
| First azimuth | 116.18° |
| First elevation | 90° |
| Last azimuth | 307.21° |
| Last elevation | 20° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -30 |
| Color | Blue, Light Blue, Green, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | It's pitch black this time of night in this valley, but this thing just made it look like daytime. It started as a flash landing me and my wife first thought lightning, but it lit up the ground, the sky, and it was almost blinding. Best I can describe it is it started exactly like a lightning strike at night, but built unbelievably quick in intensity, and it progressed for a whitish-blue lightning color, into the colors and intensity of a welding arc, plus greenish bluish hues. Maybe a bit of purple. It grew I intensity unlike any meteor I've ever seen,(and I've been watching meteor showers my entire life) over 2-3.5 seconds and then kind of pulsated or flickered for another 2-3 sec, and faded for another second. There's was a half second or so that I sincerely thought "holy crow, this is the big one I guess!". I don't know if this helps, but I could see the shadows of the treetops one ground. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | I think the "flickering" in the second half of the event was fragmentation, but I was driving and had to look back at the road. So I can't be positive but I would feel confident saying yes it did |