first time experience seeing something like this....I wish I knew at that time what I was looking at..it was amazing... and I didn't even know that the sonic boom I heard was related to what I saw, until I read about it the next day on the internet
Location
Address
Newcastle, ON (CA)
Latitude
43° 54' 42.69'' N (43.911858°)
Longitude
78° 33' 3.53'' W (-78.550981°)
Elevation
136.701996m
Time and Duration
Local Date & Time
2014-05-04 16:20 EDT
UT Date & Time
2014-05-04 20:20 UT
Duration
≈3.5s
Direction
Moving direction
From up to down
Descent Angle
180°
Moving
Facing azimuth
48.43°
First azimuth
48.75°
First elevation
56°
Last azimuth
48.44°
Last elevation
24°
Brightness and color
Stellar Magnitude
-21
Color
Orange
Concurrent Sound
Observation
No
Remarks
-
Delayed Sound
Observation
Yes
Remarks
I would say more than one min later I heard one boom and within 2 seconds a second boom not as loud as the first....
Persistent train
Observation
Yes
Duration
30s
Length
15°
Remarks
upper part seemed airy and round then as it came down towards the horizon it appeared as a very loose spiral.. almost like an inverted exclamation mark
Terminal flash
Observation
Yes
Remarks
the ball seemed to stop and enlarge and at the same time the long bright tail caught up to it, all the light disappeared only leaving the cloud formation
