Event: 20240602-025300


Numerous eyewitnesses in the states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Texas have filed reports of a bright fireball seen over Oklahoma at 9:53 PM CDT on the night of June 1. An analysis of their accounts indicates that the meteor was first seen at an altitude of 56 miles above the town of Coalgate, moving to the northwest at 67,000 miles per hour. It disintegrated 39 miles above St. Louis in the Seminole Nation, after having traveled 60 miles through the atmosphere. We thank the American Meteor Society for providing the eyewitness reports.


Event Data

Event ID 20240602-025300
Date (UTC) June 2, 2024
Time (UTC) 02:53:00
AMS Event 2685-2024
Chicken Little Start Lat/Lon +34.501, -96.164
Chicken Little End Lat/Lon +35.120, -96.835
Chicken Little Altitude 90.9 km → 62.4 km ( 56.5 miles→ 38.8 miles)
Chicken Little Speed 29.9 km/s (66,800 mph)