Reports Report 4806a (Event 4806-2017)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Carly B |
| Experience Level | 2/5 |
| Remarks | It was really cool! It appeared to be baseball-sized, and really pretty close, as if someone had just thrown it across the sky, but from above. It also had a long tail. If it was the size of a baseball, the tail would have been about a foot and a half long. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Seward, NE |
| Latitude | 40° 54' 56.48'' N (40.91569°) |
| Longitude | 97° 5' 19.57'' W (-97.08877°) |
| Elevation | 453.901m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2017-11-29 20:14 CST |
| UT Date & Time | 2017-11-30 02:14 UT |
| Duration | ≈1.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 262° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 304.21° |
| First azimuth | 297.43° |
| First elevation | 26° |
| Last azimuth | 286.87° |
| Last elevation | 24° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -7 |
| Color | Orange, Yellow, Red |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | I listened and it was oddly quiet, but I felt like there was a faint sound, but I don't know. I was in shock that I saw what I did, so I could have been imagining a sound. |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 1s |
| Length | 10° |
| Remarks | Glowing like a shooting star, but I saw so much more detail because it was so big. The ball of it looked like a close-up picture of the sun does, like a literal ball of fire. The train was just a smoother extension of that. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |