Huge Fireball over Northeastern US

690 Reports The AMS has received nearly 700 reports so far about a fireball event over Northeastern US on May 17th 2016 around 12:50am EDT (4:50 UT). The fireball was seen primarily from Maine but witnesses from Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ontario (Canada) and Québec (Canada) also

690 Reports

The AMS has received nearly 700 reports so far about a fireball event over Northeastern US on May 17th 2016 around 12:50am EDT (4:50 UT). The fireball was seen primarily from Maine but witnesses from Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ontario (Canada) and Québec (Canada) also reported the event.

If you witnessed this event please fill an official fireball report.
If you have a video or a photo of this event please contact us.

If you want to learn more about Fireballs: read our Fireball FAQ.

Trajectory

Below is the heatmap of the witnesses location and an estimation of the ground trajectory. The trajectory is calculated by triangulation based on the reports we received.

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AMS Event #1750-2016 – Heatmap and Estimated Ground Trajectory

Based on the 690 reports received so far, we were able to estimate the 3D trajectory of the object:

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AMS Event #1750-2016 – Estimated 3D Trajectory

2 Objects entered the Earth’s atmosphere

As it appears clearly in the two screenshots below (from 2 videos ©Burlington International Airport) – there were two objects. It means the original object (the meteoroid) broke before entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

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AMS Event #1750-2016 – 2 objects: pre-atmospheric fragmentation
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