Over 200 eyewitnesses in the states of Washington, Idaho and Oregon as well as the province of British Columbia have filed reports on the American Meteor Society website regarding a bright fireball seen over the Pacific Northwest at 6:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time on October 14 (15 October @ 1:56 UTC). An analysis of the available video data places first visibility of the meteor at an altitude of 49 miles above Mountain Top in southeast Washington. Moving to the northeast at 36,000 miles per hour, the object travelled 60 miles through the upper atmosphere before disintegrating 29 miles above Lenville in western Idaho. This meteor was not a member of the currently active Orionids meteor shower. We thank the American Meteor Society for providing supplemental data on this event.
| Event ID | 20261015-015610 |
| Date (UTC) | Oct. 15, 2026 |
| Time (UTC) | 01:56:10 |
| AMS Event | - |
| Chicken Little Start Lat/Lon | +46.265, -117.669 |
| Chicken Little End Lat/Lon | +46.691, -116.643 |
| Chicken Little Altitude | 79.3 km → 47.3 km ( 49.3 miles→ 29.4 miles) |
| Chicken Little Speed | 16.2 km/s (36,200 mph) |