Well over a hundred eyewitnesses in the state of Florida filed reports with the American Meteor Society regarding a bright fireball seen on November 8, 2026, at 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (2026 November 9, 03:00 UTC). The event was recorded by several eyewitnesses and multiple publicly accessible cameras in the region, as well as by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper onboard the GOES-18 and GOES-19 satellites. An analysis of the available data indicates that the fireball occurred off the west coast of Florida, in the area of the Florida Keys. It was first spotted at an altitude of 54 miles above a point in the Gulf due west of Islamorada. The fireball, caused by a small, 2 ft fragment of an asteroid moving at 54,500 miles per hour, traveled southwest for 30 miles before disintegrating 35 miles above the ocean, northwest of Key West. We thank the American Meteor Society for providing supplemental data on this event.
| Event ID | 20261109-030003 |
| Date (UTC) | Nov. 9, 2026 |
| Time (UTC) | 03:00:03 |
| AMS Event | - |
| Size | 2 ft |
| Origin | asteroidal |
| Chicken Little Start Lat/Lon | +24.978, -82.002 |
| Chicken Little End Lat/Lon | +24.811, -82.337 |
| Chicken Little Altitude | 86.5 km → 56.8 km ( 53.8 miles→ 35.3 miles) |
| Chicken Little Speed | 24.3 km/s (54,400 mph) |