Reports Report 4372rw (Event 4372-2026)

Observer
Name Cindy S
Experience Level 4/5
Remarks The steady rumble while outside is what caught my attention first, making me think what jet or loud plane is taking off at our regional airport miles away this late at night. So I looked at flight aware app and no planes. Heard the sound before seeing the meteor. While looking up a satellite caught my attention and as I was watching the satellite, I noticed this huge bright light coming toward us in the sky, almost like an airplane as it’s passing above but much larger than airplane light and definitely was not the space station. (After it disappeared I even checked the Spot the Station app, and the space station was not visible, but this was much larger and not moving in the path like the space station normally does so I knew it wasn’t that.) What stood out to me was it was a huge ball of light coming toward us slowly and gradually getting lower, and lasted definitely more than five seconds before disappearing. The rumbling sound and the angle we saw it stood out to me the most, and it disappeared with 2 to 3 bright lights next to it for a second in the sky almost directly above us, just past our backyard. My husband was on our porch which is has a ceiling and I was describing to him what I was seeing and talking about the sound we heard as it happened. So cool and so wild!
Location
Address Ballwin, MO
Latitude 38° 33' 34.82'' N (38.559672°)
Longitude 90° 33' 18.02'' W (-90.555005°)
Elevation 145.479202m
Time and Duration
Local Date & Time 2026-06-14 22:30 CDT
UT Date & Time 2026-06-15 03:30 UT
Duration ≈20s
Direction
Moving direction From up right to down left
Descent Angle 194°
Moving
Facing azimuth 238.39°
First azimuth 241.65°
First elevation 40°
Last azimuth 241.84°
Last elevation 33°
Brightness and color
Stellar Magnitude -20
Color White
Concurrent Sound
Observation Yes
Remarks Long rumble like an airplane/jet in the distance
Delayed Sound
Observation Unknown
Remarks -
Persistent train
Observation No
Duration -
Length -
Remarks -
Terminal flash
Observation Yes
Remarks It looked like a really large light and a was coming toward us like a plane would, we didn’t see an “across the sky” view but literally as if flying overhead in our backyard and getting a little brighter and slightly lower before disappearing suddenly almost above our backyard
Fragmentation
Observation Yes
Remarks A little before it disappeared saw 2-3 bright lights right next to it