Reports Report 7421ex (Event 7421-2025)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | James L |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | It was awesome! God is wonderful! I have seen multiple massive shooting stars in my life, especially here in Minnesota, but this was BY FAR the biggest and brightest I've ever seen. I want to know what it was called and if others saw it. I have never seen one with a lingering and glowing smoke cloud as big as this one. I was ready to start seeing parts of it fall down from the sky!;) It was bright, almost like the flash of a lighthouse when the light swings around, or like when someone shines a flashlight in the perifpheral of your vision. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Saint Michael, MN |
| Latitude | 45° 15' 55.75'' N (45.265487°) |
| Longitude | 93° 43' 58.83'' W (-93.733009°) |
| Elevation | 293.497223m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2025-10-29 22:20 CDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2025-10-30 03:20 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From down left to up right |
| Descent Angle | 50° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 129.59° |
| First azimuth | 48.88° |
| First elevation | 16° |
| Last azimuth | 60.88° |
| Last elevation | 35° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -28 |
| Color | Orange, Yellow, Light Yellow |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 5s |
| Length | 10° |
| Remarks | It looked like a glowing smoke trail, smoke that was aluminated and on fire! At first it was orange colored, with some green, but it lowly faded into what looked like a jet cloud, white, then diminished and was gone. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | There wasn't much for fragmentation, but just as I caught it in my eye sight, it had gotten brighter but then was gone just like that, not much for strobe, though. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |