Event: 20260304-050847

Eyewitnesses in the state of Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia have filed reports on the American Meteor Society website of a bright fireball seen on the evening of March 3 at 9:09 PM Pacific Standard Time (2026 March 4 5:09 UTC). Unfortunately there was extensive cloud cover in the region, resulting in few observations of the event, thereby making the trajectory determinations uncertain. Based on the reports and a detection by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper on the GOES 18 satellite, the meteor became visible 58 miles (98 km) over Coquitlam, BC, moving a bit east of north at 75,000 miles per hour (33 km per second). It traversed 44 miles (71 km) through the upper atmosphere before disintegrating at an altitude of 41 miles (65 km) above Greenmantle Mountain. The energy measured by the space-based lightning mapper was of the order of 10 tons of TNT, suggesting that the object producing the fireball had a mass of approximately 166 pounds (75 kilograms) and a diameter of 15 inches (38 centimeters).

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