I spent time searching before I reached out to you guys. I can't find or see anything online of what I just witnessed. That is so low in our. It was in the Earth's atmosphere like it and it went straight. It was lower than airplanes go by. I'm just like I'm in absolute awwww.
Like I love the night sky. I'm always out here looking up observing the Stars. Also the quote" Stars AKA plasmoids. I've witnessed amazing stuff like that but this by far just blows my mind.
I find it fascinating and I love learning about it. Oh just to be able to be an observatory to be able to see even closer would just be like the best thing ever.
Learning about the solar system is definitely a personal hobby of mine mine.
Location
Address
Burnaby, British Columbia (CA)
Latitude
49° 13' 38.94'' N (49.227483°)
Longitude
122° 58' 18.25'' W (-122.971737°)
Elevation
97.181068m
Time and Duration
Local Date & Time
2026-06-19 01:16 PDT
UT Date & Time
2026-06-19 08:16 UT
Duration
≈3.5s
Direction
Moving direction
From down right to up left
Descent Angle
271°
Moving
Facing azimuth
0.93°
First azimuth
14.13°
First elevation
1°
Last azimuth
339.75°
Last elevation
-
Brightness and color
Stellar Magnitude
-19
Color
Orange, Light Yellow, Yellow, White
Concurrent Sound
Observation
Yes
Remarks
A mix of a popping sound and a booming sound sizzling. It sounded like sizzling fire and then what you would describe. Watching a Star wars thing and it goes into hyperspeed and you hear that that whistling sound as it goes by. That's what it sounded like.
Delayed Sound
Observation
Yes
Remarks
It was just above the treetops lower than plains. I'm always outside staring at the sky staring up but I was staring straight ahead.
It was almost as if it just like appeared and then disappeared. I'm assuming as it was getting closer to the Earth's atmosphere. .
It wasn't like your typical shooting star because all the sudden you didn't catch it and it just quickly goes across the sky. It was as if it just appeared in front of me moved a little and stopped.
For a good 2 to 5 seconds. It just was like standing still so that would have been about 3 seconds. Maybe like two and the pop the boom half a second and then it went across the sky.
The flash reminded me of a mix of the Brite of lightning, but also like I can't believe I'm comparing the two like an atomic bomb boom bright flash. That's how bright that was including there was white around the tail and then the fire and I could hear the foot sizzling and the front was a circle and it was just like a fireball and then a long tail that was fire with all the same colors. Light orange or orange light yellow yellow the colors you would color as a kid as you were coloring like fire or so. Yeah I'm still in complete shock and awe and just I can't believe I witnessed this.
I never would have reported this but when I searched and there was nothing talked about I think I just witnessed something extremely rare. I was screaming and yelling so I'm pretty sure my whole call to sac knows now. Well Uno screaming and yelling at that time
Persistent train
Observation
Yes
Duration
-
Length
20°
Remarks
I explained it up top but I'll paraphrase again here. It was a long long tale of fire in the middle and then over top would be like a bigger part of white and white. So think of like white smoke really really long. The same white was also around. I want to say there's almost like a triangular shape and then in front of that was the ball of fire and it still had white surrounding it.
It went through each step of like the questions you were asking and describing but also the smoke was tail was already there. It just grew bigger once it exploded or it flashed and it left all together like it was one singular mechanism
Terminal flash
Observation
Yes
Remarks
The best way I can describe it but not as bright but the sound of an atomic bomb going a flash of flag. Maybe there was a you know when all the power goes out dude. It's almost you hear that sound. I don't know how to describe i no wait. It was a sonic boom where you feel it go through you. The sound the the frequency the feeling mixed in with like an atomic bomb from what I've seen on documentaries and stuff
