Event: 20240622-033200


A fireball was observed on Friday, June 21 at 10:32 PM Central Daylight Time by numerous eyewitnesses in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. An analysis of the accounts filed on the American Meteor Society website shows that the meteor was first sighted 54 miles above the Texas town of Malakoff, moving to the northwest at 58,000 miles per hour. It traveled 61 miles through the upper atmosphere in just 3.8 seconds, finally disintegrating 36 miles over Everglade Park in Dallas near I-30. The object producing the fireball was too small and too fast to have generated any meteorites. We thank the American Meteor Society for providing the eyewitness reports.


Event Data

Event ID 20240622-033200
Date (UTC) June 22, 2024
Time (UTC) 03:32:00
AMS Event 3030-2024
Chicken Little Start Lat/Lon +32.362, -96.127
Chicken Little End Lat/Lon +32.792, -96.698
Chicken Little Altitude 84.7 km → 54.4 km ( 52.6 miles→ 33.8 miles)
Chicken Little Speed 22.3 km/s (49,800 mph)