Reports Report 1750yv (Event 1750-2016)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Jodie C |
| Experience Level | 2/5 |
| Remarks | It looked like it dropped and blew up like a bomb. While waiting for something to happen again I noticed that the Northern Canadian border was getting a pink hue of color that got slightly larger toward me. Which shouldn't have been since it was black outside with only stars. I really hope this helps narrow things down. I'm very sure your excited and working diligently! Beat of luck. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Plattsburgh, NY |
| Latitude | 44° 45' 18.86'' N (44.75524°) |
| Longitude | 73° 30' 51.84'' W (-73.5144°) |
| Elevation | 114.837m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2016-05-17 00:56 EDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2016-05-17 04:56 UT |
| Duration | ≈7.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 210° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 45.66° |
| First azimuth | 60.63° |
| First elevation | 20° |
| Last azimuth | 25.36° |
| Last elevation | 7° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -17 |
| Color | White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 5s |
| Length | 90° |
| Remarks | The sky started getting brighter and than it was like fireworks. Bright white glowing and quickly randomly making different bright formations like lightning but as fast as sparklers. Very hard to explain. It really looked like it was broken up and landing places close by. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | It was like fireworks being set off or lightening with no sound. It was right in front of me. Different clouds or bombs one right after another. It lite up almost the whole Northern horizon. I thought what ever it was fell or started right to the right of our pole barn. The bout's of light flashing never went past my pool on the left. It just kind of stopped. All bright at the same time, the sky was white and flashing with defined roundness of whatever was lighting. It's hard to explain. I thought it may have been a meteor and than thought no way. The sky was full of stars and it was cold so it couldn't have been heat lightening. Very strange, but Canada recently had a bad fire and thought maybe they were spraying something... I didn't know. My dog finally came back in and nothing ever happened after that. I waited at least 20 minutes to see if it was going to do it again. Until this morning I thought I might have been seeing things it was that bright and scary. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | Just that it looked like something had blown apart and was throwing shots of bright light everywhere. |