Reports Report 8264a (Event 8264-2020)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Roxanne F |
| Experience Level | 2/5 |
| Remarks | It was a little bit light out when I saw this fireball, and the fireball was mostly quiet until it landed. There was very, very little noise coming from it while it went through the sky, above the horizon. The slight, soft noise that it made while it was in the sky, sounded like nothing I have ever heard before. It was an amazing, beautiful sound. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Akron, OH |
| Latitude | 40° 58' 48.81'' N (40.980226°) |
| Longitude | 81° 27' 37.99'' W (-81.460554°) |
| Elevation | 357.224121m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2020-08-12 02:34 EST |
| UT Date & Time | 2020-08-12 06:34 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From down right to up left |
| Descent Angle | 273° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 186° |
| First azimuth | 199° |
| First elevation | 75° |
| Last azimuth | 100° |
| Last elevation | 75° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -10 |
| Color | A medium amount of the tail was blue, and the rest, (most of it) was white. |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | It sounded like an extremely muffled nuclear explosion, or the sound an oven makes when it puffs, like a loud - sounding puff of smoke, but soft. Soft, but loud. (A soft boom.) Mainly, it sounded like a muffled, soft, but loud puff of smoke. |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 99.99s |
| Length | 65° |
| Remarks | The fireball left behind a trail of smoke, and after around 4 seconds over 2 minutes, (124 seconds), the trail of smoke it left behind started to fade. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | The fireball lit up very brightly 2 times, while it was in the sky above the horizon. In the amount of time that it was in the sky, when it lit up twice, those two times it lit up where only a few seconds apart. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | As it was flying across the sky, I'm pretty sure I saw little pieces of icy rock break off the fireball. The pieces where mostly engrossed in lots of smoke, and only 2 or 3 pieces broke off the fireball. |