Event: 20230312-010200


Over 70 eyewitnesses in the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont reported seeing a fireball on March 11, 2023 at around 8:02 PM Eastern Standard Time (2023 March 12 1:02 UTC). An analysis of their accounts places the first sighting of the meteor 53 miles above Oscawana Lake in New York, moving a bit south of east at 51,000 miles per hour. It traveled 46 miles through the upper atmosphere before disintegrating 34 miles above the city of Milford in Connecticut.


Event Data

Event ID 20230312-010200
Date (UTC) March 12, 2023
Time (UTC) 01:02:00
AMS Event 1529-2023
Chicken Little Start Lat/Lon +41.373, -73.852
Chicken Little End Lat/Lon +41.273, -73.054
Chicken Little Altitude 85.2 km → 55.1 km ( 53.0 miles→ 34.2 miles)
Chicken Little Speed 22.9 km/s (51,200 mph)