Reports Report 2830e (Event 2830-2023)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ben M |
| Experience Level | 1/5 |
| Remarks | I thought it was a place at first, just a white light moving across the sky. There was a flash of light and I thought the plan exploded, but it kept going bright pinkish white, amd the trail behind it was so flipping cool! Pale blue against the dark sky with little sparkles of white and yellow. And it just didn't stop! I watched it over my house and fade off over the buildings across the street. It turned red and orange as it went out of sight. I've seen a couple of shooting stars before but this was INCREDIBLE! I went inside for a few moments and then out to my front yard to look at the sky, and that's when I heard a low, distant boom. Just one, dull boom from very far awat. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Andover, KS |
| Latitude | 37° 42' 29.55'' N (37.708209°) |
| Longitude | 97° 8' 12.33'' W (-97.136757°) |
| Elevation | 413.072327m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2023-05-30 21:52 CDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2023-05-31 02:52 UT |
| Duration | ≈20s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 96° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 14.58° |
| First azimuth | 0.86° |
| First elevation | 53° |
| Last azimuth | 121.29° |
| Last elevation | 5° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -7 |
| Color | Pink, Light Yellow, Red, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Maybe a minute or two later I was in the front yard just looking around and I heard a dull boom. |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 20s |
| Length | 80° |
| Remarks | As the fireball traveled across the sky, the trail behind it was bluish at first filled with almost sparkles of yellow and white. As it headed east, the color faded to red and orange as it left my field of view. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |