Reports Report 2543hy (Event 2543-2026)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Charles e |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | 2:34pm Just north of Allentown, PA looking East. At first thought it was a jet taking off from the airport nearby, moving from east to south… but was moving too fast with no noise & not climbing but very low just visible above tree tops. Was silver green it looked like it was launching something, but it was actually sparkling & fragmenting apart & then disappeared.  The background sky was clear and deep blue. The sun was very bright to my back, so at first the meteor look like, perhaps a reflection off of an airplane fuselage. and about the same luminosity, that would be typical of a small plane, reflecting sunlight at a range of 1.5 miles +/-. it was visible long enough to tell my buddy to look … If I stood with my arms outstretched with hands about 4 feet apart, that’s about how far it moved across the sky.  (East to South East) |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Catasauqua, PA |
| Latitude | 40° 39' 42.36'' N (40.661768°) |
| Longitude | 75° 28' 22.46'' W (-75.472905°) |
| Elevation | 116.022285m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2026-04-07 14:24 EDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2026-04-07 18:24 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From down left to up right |
| Descent Angle | 85° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | - |
| First azimuth | 90° |
| First elevation | 11° |
| Last azimuth | 143.87° |
| Last elevation | 10° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -8 |
| Color | Light Green |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | initially, I thought it was a small jet taking off from the nearby airport, but it was moving too fast & not climbing. It looked to shoot something out ahead of it, but was actually the silverish-green meteor disintegrating. The first piece to disintegrate veered slightly upward while the main meteor continued along its path, seeming to sparkle and become faint and then disappearing |