Event: 20260324-013109

Many eyewitnesses in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario have filed reports on the American Meteor Society website of a bright meteor seen on March 23 at 9:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time (2026 March 24 01:31 UTC). The fireball was also detected by several meteor cameras in the region, and an analysis of the video data puts first detection at an altitude of 42 miles above the Michigan town of Hope. The meteor moved northeast at 29,000 miles per hour, disintegrating 23 miles above Saginaw Bay, just east of Whites Beach. At its peak the fireball - caused by a piece of an asteroid about 4 inches in diameter and weighing about a pound - was 40 times brighter than the planet Venus.

There was another meteor seen in the region 6 minutes before this event, at 9:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time. It was fainter and there is much less data; what is available at this time is too sparse to allow for a solution.

We thank the American Meteor Society for providing the eyewitness accounts.

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Images and Video from NASA and Western University's Southern Ontario Meteor Network

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