Observer | |
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Name | Grim V |
Experience Level | 2/5 |
Remarks | The first flash lasted about 1.5-3 seconds, lighting up the sky like the sun. It then grew dim for about a second before it flashed again while fragmenting. My intial thought was that it was a lightning strike before I saw what it was and noticed zero cloud cover. |
Location | |
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Address | Surprise, AZ |
Latitude | 33° 43' 14.59'' N (33.72°) |
Longitude | 112° 24' 3.86'' W (-112.4°) |
Elevation | 427.58m |
Time and Duration | |
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Local Date & Time | 2016-06-02 03:56 MST |
UT Date & Time | 2016-06-02 10:56 UT |
Duration | ≈3.5s |
Direction | |
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Moving direction | From up left to down right |
Descent Angle | 153° |
Moving | |
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Facing azimuth | 83.68° |
First azimuth | 80.09° |
First elevation | 34° |
Last azimuth | 82.08° |
Last elevation | 16° |
Brightness and color | |
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Stellar Magnitude | -24 |
Color | Blue, Orange, Yellow, Red |
Concurrent Sound | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | - |
Delayed Sound | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | About three minutes after the event my friend and I heard two deep booms about 1 second apart. Both being combat veterans, it reminded us of high payload ordnance exploding 10-20 miles away. The booms came from east of our position, where we had seen the fireball. |
Persistent train | |
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Observation | Yes |
Duration | - |
Length | 15° |
Remarks | Bright orange/yellow/blue train, followed by a pale blue smoke trail roughly 40 degrees in length. |
Terminal flash | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | The last second and a half lit up the sky like the sun again. It flashed a couple times similar to a lighting flash. |
Fragmentation | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | When it broke up, it looked as if three distinct fragments split from the center. |