Reports Report 3987s (Event 3987-2022)
| Observer | |
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| Name | Juliann L |
| Experience Level | 4/5 |
| Remarks | This was incredible, it looked like a shooting star or a plane, then it left a light trail and broke up. Hope someone else got a better view to share. |
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| Location | |
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| Address | Great Falls, MT |
| Latitude | 47° 30' 9.07'' N (47.50252°) |
| Longitude | 111° 13' 19.01'' W (-111.221947°) |
| Elevation | 1057.27771m |
| Time and Duration | |
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| Local Date & Time | 2022-07-12 22:09 MDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2022-07-13 04:09 UT |
| Duration | ≈7.5s |
| Direction | |
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| Moving direction | From down right to up left |
| Descent Angle | 278° |
| Moving | |
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| Facing azimuth | 226.21° |
| First azimuth | 229.55° |
| First elevation | 41° |
| Last azimuth | 138.64° |
| Last elevation | 41° |
| Brightness and color | |
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| Stellar Magnitude | -13 |
| Color | Pink, Dark Blue, Blue, Light Blue, Orange, Yellow, Light Yellow, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
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| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
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| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
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| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 99.99s |
| Length | 5° |
| Remarks | Looked like a jets chemtrail but it was a glowing light smoke trail from the breaking apart meteor. It broke into 10 or more parts. All with a trail behind. Where I first saw it happen the trail stayed for many minutes all lit up in the sky |
| Terminal flash | |
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| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Flash when we first saw it, light trail, then bright flashes as it broke up into many prices. |
| Fragmentation | |
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| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Flashed when we first saw it, light trail and flashing glowing bright lights as it was breaking apart into many prices. A little after we saw it hit the atmosphere it broke apart and they flew kind of close together. |