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Meteorites recovered few hours after daylight fireball over Southeastern US!
On Thursday 26, 12:24 p.m. EDT (16h 24min UT), a daylight fireball was widely observed (more than 200 reports so far for Event #3455-2025) and video recorded over Southeastern USA (Florida, Alabama, North & South Carolina, Tennessee). A few hours after first reports came out, first meteorites were recovered near Blacksville (Georgia, USA).
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A bright daylight fireball observed over Southeastern US
It was bright daylight and clear weather on Thursday, June 26, 2025, 12:24 p.m. EDT (16h 24min UT), when a very bright and fast fireball was clearly observed in the Southeastern USA skies. Many dashcams and visual reporters recorded the event: Event #3455-2025 gathered more than 200 reports (Figure 1), some of them being accompanied with videos (see below) and pictures.
Figure 1- Heat map of observers who reported the June 26, 2025, 16h 24min UT daylight fireball over Southeastern US. The blue arrow is the automatically calculated trajectory of the meteoroid that was at the source of the meteoric event. Credit: AMS, IMO
Video by Brannon H. from Columbia (US):
From analysis of radar data, meteorological satellites (like GOES-19, see below), visual reports and videos, it looks like potential meteorites could have landed South-East of Atlanta (Figure 1).
A bolide, or large meteor, broke up over South Carolina and Georgia earlier today, creating a fireball that was bright enough to be captured by GOES-19. pic.twitter.com/H4G3UYorjB
— CIRA (@CIRA_CSU) June 26, 2025
Meteorites recovered few hours after meteor sighting
A few hours after, reports were made of a meteorite fall through the roof of a house in Southwestern quarters of Blacksville (Georgia, US). Some meteorites hunter also show meteorites recoveries (Figure 2a- and 2b) on social networks, just before the zone was under a downpour!
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