Many eyewitnesses in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas have filed reports on the American Meteor Society website of a fireball seen on the night of March 2 at 7:19 PM Central Standard Time (3 March 2026 at 01:19 UTC). Analysis of these reports combined with information from train station cameras and an EarthCam on Reunion Tower in Dallas shows that the meteor appeared 48 miles above the town of Chickasaw in northeastern Louisiana. Moving west at 30,000 miles per hour, the fireball traveled over 41 miles through Earth’s atmosphere before disintegrating at an altitude of 27 miles above the Georgia Pacific Wildlife Management Area. This meteor was not associated with any currently active meteor shower and was part of the sporadic (“background”) meteor complex.
We thank the American Meteor Society for providing the eyewitness accounts.
| Event ID | 20260303-011854 |
| Date (UTC) | March 3, 2026 |
| Time (UTC) | 01:18:54 |
| AMS Event | 1423-2026 |
| Chicken Little Start Lat/Lon | +32.939, -91.383 |
| Chicken Little End Lat/Lon | +32.861, -91.990 |
| Chicken Little Altitude | 76.6 km → 43.7 km ( 47.6 miles→ 27.1 miles) |
| Chicken Little Speed | 13.2 km/s (29,600 mph) |