I work nights. I see all types of meteors..... this was very different. Nothing else has made me fill out a form such as this. I thought it was a plane of some sort at first but it was just too fast for a plane and it didn’t have any fire on it until the “wings” came off the main body. Then huge flames burst out of it so the flames looked like wings and then the flames went out and the main body kept falling. It wasn’t a fireball.
Location
Address
Cleveland, AR
Latitude
35° 27' 35.77'' N (35.459937°)
Longitude
92° 40' 42.45'' W (-92.678457°)
Elevation
195.409m
Time and Duration
Local Date & Time
2018-11-02 19:18 CDT
UT Date & Time
2018-11-03 00:18 UT
Duration
≈3.5s
Direction
Moving direction
From up right to down left
Descent Angle
211°
Moving
Facing azimuth
4.4°
First azimuth
12.24°
First elevation
26°
Last azimuth
350.29°
Last elevation
9°
Brightness and color
Stellar Magnitude
-7
Color
Yellow with yellow “wings” falling away??
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
It looked like parts of wings falling off a huge airplane if the plane was a meteor and it had wings to either side. It wasn’t a fireball. It was more like a meteor with some combustible material catching into a flash fire that lasted one half to one second as huge parts that looked similar to “wings” broke off the main “thing” falling from the sky. I thought it was a plane at first but it was falling way to fast for that. It fell faster than the space shuttle did when it came down all those years ago. But just like that, you could tell when parts of this thing came ripping off the main body of the falling object. It wasn’t a fire ball. I looked up that on the internet. It didn’t look like those videos at all.
