|
Remarks |
Started about 20 degrees above the southern horizon. A long, wide column of several dozen bright, orange dots spraying due north from a silver-grey cloud of smoke at its base. Reminded me of those birthday sparklers you can set on fire but with the sparks staying together in a column like spray from a fire hose rather than fanning out. Majority faded out rapidly with lingering smoke but about a half-dozen large, very bright orange fireballs continued due north after the majority had faded. The remaining fireballs were rapidly separating in distance from each other as the lead ones were travelling faster than those behind. About four made it to just slightly west of my directly overhead point, with the final fireball almost making it to the northern horizon before fading out. All fireballs had tails and each had a cone of grey smoke around it as they moved across the sky. Some pulsation of the lead fireballs. Entire event was over a minute in duration, I'm only reporting to provide additional insight because of the large number of other reports. Due to the almost compass-accurate south-to-north path of the debris and the cloud of smoke at the base of the original sighting location in the sky it looks like something in a polar orbit exploded. |
