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 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) |