Possible bolide sighting ?

[Mee_n_Mac]

Hey I saw something tonight (~5:15pm ?) but I'm not sure exactly what it was or if it should be reported. We were driving to a wake (ugh) and were on the onramp to Rt128S from Rt3S here in MA. I saw what I first thought was a meteor through the windshield. It was large, much larger than all meteors I've seen previously, and initially white. It paralleled Rt128S at that point and lasted 2-3 secs and seemed both low and slow. At the end it got brighter and I could see a green color and then it disappeared. At that moment I thought it was an airplane but when I looked up again there was nothing to be seen. Because of it's size and slow 'n' low motion I next thought it might have been a sky rocket/fireworks of some sort but there was no smoke trail nor was the location and trajectory proper for such a thing. So now I'm semi-convinced I saw a fireball. My wife sitting in the passenger seat saw the same thing. I have to take the same route tomorrow (funeral, ugh) and so can make some other site observations for location and direction and ?? if useful. To whom does one report fireballs to ? Anything else I should write down before I forget ? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>-----------------------------------------------------</p><p><font color="#ff0000">Ask not what your Forum Software can do do on you,</font></p><p><font color="#ff0000">Ask it to, please for the love of all that's Holy, <strong>STOP</strong> !</font></p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Great description, yes PLEASE do report it.<br /><br />Try and get altitude and azimuth on the beginning an end.<br />How bright was it?<br /><br /> Here's the North American Meteor Network beginners Fireball report form.<br /><br />Try filling it out, that will give you an idea of what other data you can gather tomorrow (sorry to hear your reason for the travel) and what you should write down while it's fresh in your mind.<br /> here's a printable form.<br /><br />[url=http://www.namnmeteors.org/fireball/namnreport.html] Here's the advanced one. <br /><br />All data is forwarded to the International Meteor Organization.<br /><br />Feel free to post here or PM me if you have any more questions.<br />We meteoricists thank you!! <br /><br />Oh, and please forward me the information as well <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />Meteor Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[tom_hobbes]

Saw one last night, Jan 13th, around 7pm-ish GMT, location Chester, UK. I thought about putting up a mention of it yesterday evening but I was too busy. It streaked diagonally down the sky from about 55 - 60 degrees above the horizon, heading approximately North East before breaking up into five or six bright fragments at around 20 - 25 degrees. I was only out for about five minutes dropping off my daughter's velvet boots, so I was incredibly lucky to see it. The second I've seen.<br /><br />The other was about twenty years ago, a daylight meteor which travelled all the way down the sky as bright as a flare before disappearing over the horizon, it didn’t explode or fragment while in view so I’m not sure whether it can be defined as a bolide or not. <br /><br />(There was also that bright night time flash that lit up the houses adjacent to me, bright as daylight, some time in the early morning - probably 2 - 4am, earlier in the year but I still don't know what that was and didn't see it directly.) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>