Reports Report 929az (Event 929-2010)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Steve |
| Experience Level | 1/5 |
| Remarks | If anyone else reports this, I would like to be notified, only because I am curious as to what they saw (I don\'t want to know their identity). |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Philadelphia, PA |
| Latitude | 40° 4' 11.95'' N (40.069986°) |
| Longitude | 75° 12' 16.24'' W (-75.20451°) |
| Elevation | - |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2010-12-28 18:45 EDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2010-12-28 23:45 UT |
| Duration | ? |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From right to left |
| Descent Angle | 270° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 315° |
| First azimuth | -1° |
| First elevation | 90° |
| Last azimuth | -1° |
| Last elevation | 60° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | 1 |
| Color | White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | I didn\'t hear any sound. |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 1s |
| Length | 40° |
| Remarks | I was standing in the middle of a park, away from street lights. The fireball was white in color, almost like burning sodium. It looked round. There was a trail flowing behind it, fanning it out. I happened to be looking up at the stars when I noticed the fireball directly overhead. It went for about 2 seconds in a straight line towards the northwest, then seemed to explode, but there was no sound. The most interesting thing to me was that a someone else came up to me about a minute later, and asked me if I had seen the trees in the park light up, like it was daylight for a second. The bystander did not see the fireball itself. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | See previous note. Why would the landscape suddenly light up when the fireball exploded? Does that mean it was very close? |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |