Fireball Brighter Than Magnitude -3 Streaks Across South Louisiana, Flashing Over 5 States
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Updated · WAFB · Jun 28
Fireball Brighter Than Magnitude -3 Streaks Across South Louisiana, Flashing Over 5 States
3 articles · Updated · WAFB · Jun 28
Summary
Shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday, a bright fireball crossed south Louisiana skies, with witnesses reporting it mainly in the eastern or southeastern sky.
Sky9 cameras captured the event and its flash, including a clear view from atop Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge; viewer videos also came from Denham Springs and St. Francisville.
The American Meteor Society logged sightings across at least five southern states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas — showing the meteor was visible over a wide area.
A fireball is an exceptionally bright meteor of magnitude -3 or brighter, typically caused when pebble-sized to roughly 1-meter space debris burns through Earth’s atmosphere; there was no indication this one reached the ground.