Reports Report 6242d (Event 6242-2025)

Observer
Name Colt J
Experience Level 3/5
Remarks I've seen Mini nighttime events involving various shooting stars throughout my life, but this one in particular not only were the colors very insanely bright, but the fact that they changed such drastic colors and maintained their brightness for an extended period of time as compared to any other shooting star events I have ever seen, and just the overall size of the initial leading point of the object followed with the extremely long tell or train of the object that was abnormally large in terms of width as well! And honestly, it was so odd and amazing that my very first gut instinct was that whatever object this was had to not only be large, but that it was more than likely so large that it did not completely get burnt up in the atmosphere, like most objects do and in return that's why they never reach earth. I feel that this one has a strong possibility of reaching earth, and that was the very first thing I said to the two other individuals that were standing with me that saw this happen because it was just so large and bright and lasted so long that it just seemed like the type of thing that more than likely made it through the atmosphere successfully and landed somewhere in the region where it was seen... and also I guess it's worth mentioning that there seem to be the initial event that started all of this and halfway through. It's trajectory in my line of sight. It seemed almost as if it started back up again if that makes sense so it ignited became very visible, and then as the tail was fading out of nowhere, it reignited almost it seemed, and once again got extremely bright and then started the process all over again, so I'm not sure if that means it was breaking apart or what exactly but it did seem like something had occurred midway through our view of it! And honestly that's how I found out about you all just now was because I was on Google searching to see if anything had been reported in the news of anyone finding an object that crashed to earth because I was that sure that whatever it was almost certainly made it down to the Earth and I figured if it did, it would be on the news and that's when I found you all and decided to make a report about it because in all the times I've seen stuff like I've said I've never seen anything even remotely as amazing or as bright or colorful as this particular incident
Location
Address Abingdon, VA
Latitude 36° 40' 29.75'' N (36.67493°)
Longitude 82° 1' 17.64'' W (-82.021566°)
Elevation 630.150024m
Time and Duration
Local Date & Time 2025-09-25 20:32 EDT
UT Date & Time 2025-09-26 00:32 UT
Duration ≈3.5s
Direction
Moving direction From up to down
Descent Angle 180°
Moving
Facing azimuth 334.73°
First azimuth 340.64°
First elevation 30°
Last azimuth 341.33°
Last elevation 20°
Brightness and color
Stellar Magnitude -12
Color Green, Light Green, Orange, Yellow
Concurrent Sound
Observation Unknown
Remarks -
Delayed Sound
Observation Unknown
Remarks -
Persistent train
Observation Yes
Duration 4s
Length 15°
Remarks It started off bright green and turned almost neon green, followed by an orange color, then kind of yellow color and finally as it faded off, it turned vibrant white, and disappeared
Terminal flash
Observation Unknown
Remarks -
Fragmentation
Observation Unknown
Remarks -