Reports Report 1438w (Event 1438-2013)

Observer
Name Tera H
Experience Level 1/5
Remarks -
Location
Address Salisbury, NC
Latitude 35° 36' 11.64'' N (35.603233°)
Longitude 80° 34' 33.99'' W (-80.576107°)
Elevation 236.587967m
Time and Duration
Local Date & Time 2013-07-13 00:15 EDT
UT Date & Time 2013-07-13 04:15 UT
Duration ≈7.5s
Direction
Moving direction From up left to down right
Descent Angle -
Moving
Facing azimuth 290°
First azimuth 270°
First elevation 35°
Last azimuth 350°
Last elevation 15°
Brightness and color
Stellar Magnitude -13
Color Red/orange & some bright white at the beginning of it with blue/green towards the end of fireball. Several colors. The whole sky lite up bright white, like the color of a full moon...like the sky had a flash light shining down towards earth.
Concurrent Sound
Observation Unknown
Remarks -
Delayed Sound
Observation Yes
Remarks Now I cant say the noises I heard were exactly from the fireball, but when I heard the booms I knew it was not thunder & it scared me because the several booms I heard were about 3-5 minutes after it passed by my view...it seemed to me as it was from the fireball but I didn't see anything from what I heard. It was just really crazy that after it passed me that shortly after that I heard the noises, could be just a coincidence, I'm not 100% for sure. But the noises that sounded like booms I couldn't make out exactly where they were coming from direction wise, however didn't seem very far from the angle I last saw the fireball. I believe I heard like 3 to 4 different boom sounds that happened very close together, only lasted a few seconds I'm sure. I wasn't wearing my glasses therefore I wasn't actually able to see if fragments were around. The fireball seemed so very close to me that even without my glasses I could see the several different colors & it seemed to be a pretty decent sized fireball, I felt I had a very close upfront view! I know that even though it seemed that close to us that it actually wasn't, bit it most definitely was not very high in the sky at all. The only bright light explosion I saw was right before I saw it shoot across the sky, nothing like that afterwards just before the fireball was actually able to be seen.
Persistent train
Observation Unknown
Duration -
Length -
Remarks -
Terminal flash
Observation Unknown
Remarks -
Fragmentation
Observation Unknown
Remarks -