The American Meteor Society has received over 1500 reports of a bright fireball on Monday, December 29, 2014. It was observed over a large portion of the eastern USA stretching from Maine southward to Maryland. This event occurred near 6:35pm eastern standard time or 23:35 Universal Time. Individual reports may be seen at: Report #3638 for 2014.

More details will be provided as information arrives.

If you saw this fireball, please report it here.

Below is the heat map of the witnesses of this event.

Below is a 3D trajectory of the fireball’s entry plotted by the AMS using data from the witness sightings. The geometric impact point is located South West of Carlisle, New York ( 42°44’48.07″N, 74°25’4.78″W).

Below is a video of the fireball caught by Peter Czech in NJ (the fireball appears at 0:04 on the top right.)



Vincent Perlerin Vincent Perlerin, PhD used to be a researcher in Computational Linguistics. He is now a software developer, a web designer, a community manager, an illustrator and many other things. He is working on the American Meteor Society under the supervision of Mike Hankey. Vincent is the lead developer of all the AMS projects. He's also the lead developer of the International Meteor Organization Website and the IMO online Databases management system.