Fireball Program

Since 2013, the IMO takes part of the International Fireball Program initiated by the American Meteor Society (AMS).

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Since 2005, the American Meteor Society (AMS) has accepted online reports of suspected fireballs and bolides from the general public. The form has been specifically designed to be usable by people with no astronomy experience. All reports are analyzed, evaluated, and grouped into events based on the location of the witnesses and the time of the sighting. The events are published on the IMO Website, the AMS website and the customized websites of all the 23 organizations world-wide involved in this project:

All the statistics of the International Fireball Program are available online.

Here are some numbers (on January, 1^st 2019) - The program received 157,925 reports from 186 different countries since 2005. These reports have been grouped into 38,713 events.

Here is the details of reports received per countries: