Reports Report 9455b (Event 9455-2022)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Sean J |
| Experience Level | 2/5 |
| Remarks | I know more than the average person does about astronomy (and frankly most scientific matters, not that I’m an expert, maybe I just have been around poorly educated people too much in my life lol) and such, but I’m a novice and wasn’t stargazing at the moment — in fact I was just driving on the Interstate and sort of gazing ahead and it appeared to sort of the north-northeast of my then north facing vision field on the interstate I-49, and it was of such a striking nature that I couldn’t not see it lol. Luckily no cars were really nearby at the moment, and it only lasted a brief amount of time, and again it did get a very noticeable amount larger at the end of its appearsnce before then very quickly fizzling out/disappearing. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Rogers, AR |
| Latitude | 36° 19' 27.8'' N (36.324388°) |
| Longitude | 94° 11' 4.8'' W (-94.184668°) |
| Elevation | 383.049591m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2022-11-28 23:30 CST |
| UT Date & Time | 2022-11-29 05:30 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 115° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 15° |
| First azimuth | 8° |
| First elevation | 25° |
| Last azimuth | 20° |
| Last elevation | 15° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -7 |
| Color | Light Blue, Light Green, Orange, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | It got its brightest and biggest towards the end of its maybe 2-3 second duration when it emitted the weird bluish green and slightly orange colors and disappearing. I didn’t think of it as an explosion or bright terminal flash/explosion but now after reading you putting it that way in this question, I’ve realized that that is a good way to describe what seemed to happen. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |