Reports Report 2715ai (Event 2715-2022)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Tamber R |
| Experience Level | 1/5 |
| Remarks | I was driving when I spotted this ball of fire in the sky. It was amazing looking, seemed to move too slow to be a shooting star and was most definitely too bright, too big and firey like. I've seen shooting stars before. Right after it moved across the night sky through my field of vision an air plane flew from the direction it was headed. There is no way that piolet could have missed that! This is super cool that I can report this. I was just trying to look up if there were any reports of any metors or anything like that that were expected for tonight and came across this and no other reports in my area of this happening and thought I should report to help. Thanks. Hope I help find something cool and interesting. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Perry, NY |
| Latitude | 42° 43' 11.56'' N (42.719878°) |
| Longitude | 78° 0' 19.89'' W (-78.005524°) |
| Elevation | 422.099854m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2022-05-08 23:30 EDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2022-05-09 03:30 UT |
| Duration | ? |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 242° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 2.59° |
| First azimuth | 14.2° |
| First elevation | 50° |
| Last azimuth | 319.51° |
| Last elevation | 30° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -14 |
| Color | Fire orange. It looked like a literal ball of fire gliding across the night sky slowly. |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | Coming from the ball of fire was definitely a "glowing train" and from that left a slight smoky cloud behind it. It was the first time I've ever seen such a thing in my 35 years of living and i was amazed and scared at the same time so I don't have all the details and I was driving at the time I had spotted it |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |