New Mexico Fireball

On Sept 13th at approximately 3 o'clock in the morning MDT, an extremely bright fireball streaked over New Mexico.

At the Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, a Sentinel all-sky video camera captured the fireball in flight.

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• Meteor
• Science
• Space
• Weather
• Fireball
• New
• Mexico
• Explosion

[EdithSteinPabo]

nice movie and great fireball! Mag. -12? or brighter?

[handen]

@DIE985 How's your tenuous grip on reality treating you? The camera uses a wide fisheye lens to film the entire sky, so any object moving in the field of vision will be moving on a curve. That circular rim of orange lights around the edges? That's a 360º representation of the entire horizon. That "object" you see at 6 seconds is a structural component of either the lens itself, or a manufacturing process leftover on the top of the (likely plastic) dome used to protect the camera from weather.

[LoopKoop6778]

HOLY SHIT SOMEONE IS FLYING THAT BASTARD AND TURNED IT AROUND! my god what have we done...

[Mchermsquatch]

That's not a square! ... That's a uh... Fireball force field!! ... Yeah that's it.

FAKE

[Mccarlos200]

everyone minimize ur page then drag it to the bottom of ur screen u can clearly see a square around the 'fire ball"

[gabrielajocson]

YAY, FIREWORKS, that was fake. I SAW THE SQUARE, YOU CAN'T LIE TO US!!

[Electrains]

did anyone else notice it was in a PERFECT square?......i say its fake

[lagas5]

lol i saw that one aswell lolz :) well i gues it was that one cuz i saw it at 9:16 :)

[monobrowperson]

i wish it would hit the earth and kill our fucking asses.

[ewanstatic2006]

I saw a small, white, slow one that lasted just a few seconds before burning out and left no trail over the West Midlands about 30 minutes ago, was pretty scary, but pretty cool!