Two videos person surfaced that look to seizure nan blazing, 34,000 mile-per-hour 'daylight fireball' that soared complete New York's Statue of Liberty connected Tuesday.
One video, pulled from a Nest location information camera successful Wayne, New Jersey, shows a gleaming achromatic streak of ray hurtling done nan greeting entity — astatine a region complete 50 miles distant from nan flaming entity arsenic it disintegrated successful Earth's atmosphere.
NASA revealed Tuesday that nan 'fireball' had plummeted 'at a steep perspective of conscionable 18 degrees from vertical' earlier 'disintegrating 29 miles supra midtown Manhattan.'
The 2 videos were submitted by amateur sky-watchers pinch nan American Meteor Society, which has now logged dozens of imaginable witnesses to nan meteor, immoderate reportedly shaking from its earthquake-like rumble and startling large 'boom.'
The 2nd video, recorded successful Northford, Connecticut, shows much high-resolution images of nan fireball arsenic it burned complete forested hills for illustration a midday shooting star.
Two videos person surfaced that look to seizure nan blazing, 34,000 mile-per-hour 'daylight fireball' meteor that soared complete New York's Statue of Liberty connected Tuesday. One video was pulled from a Nest location information camera successful Wayne, New Jersey (still image above)
The caput of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office, Bill Cooke, previously thanked nan nine for collecting its nationalist meteor sighting data which had allowed nan US abstraction agency to make 'a very crude determination of nan trajectory of nan meteor.'
The American Meteor Society issued a caveat that nan 2 caller fireball videos, posted to their charismatic YouTube channel, 'may not beryllium related to a fireball event.'
Both videos, on pinch a moving full of 43 witnesser reports, however, did coincide pinch nan clip (11:15am eastern) and proximity of Thursday's 'fireball' event.
Trackers pinch nan nonprofit society, founded successful 1911, person now mapped reports of nan fireball crossed nan tri-state area, from New Jersey, New York and Connecticut — and beyond into Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
'It conscionable caught my eye: a fireball conscionable streaming done nan sky,' arsenic 1 eyewitness, Judah Bergman, told section NBC News New York. 'I couldn't judge it.'
The 2nd video, recorded from Northford, Connecticut (still above), shows a much high-resolution image of nan fireball arsenic it burned supra forested hills for illustration a midday shooting star
A adjacent up of nan fireball from nan 2nd video, American Meteor Society study 3491ah-2024
Multiple authorities agencies leapt into action to place nan mysterious, rattling explosion, including NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office and nan United States Geological Survey's (USGS) National Earthquake Information Center.
'I personally said pinch NYC Emergency Management, and location is thing connected their radar,' New York City councilmember Justin Brannan posted to Facebook.
'Some opportunity possibly a meteor?' Brannan continued. 'Will support you posted.'
But NASA noted location was grounds for an replacement explanation.
'There are reports of subject successful nan vicinity astir nan clip of nan fireball,' nan abstraction agency said, 'which could explicate nan shaking and sounds reported to nan media.'
Despite NASA's caveat, however, Pentagon officials told NBC New York that neither nan North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), nor immoderate different US subject sensor network, had tracked thing that could explicate nan witnesser reports.
Astronomer and lead for NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office, Bill Cooke, said nan daylight fireball was first spotted astatine 11:17am section clip adjacent Greenville Yard, a freight obstruction gait located astatine nan Port of New York and New Jersey: 'moving a spot eastbound of North astatine 34,000 miles per hour'
'It conscionable caught maine eye: a fireball conscionable streaming done nan sky,' eyewitness Judah Bergman told nan section NBC news affiliate. 'I couldn't judge it.' Above, a still from nan 1998 movie Armageddon, successful which abstraction rocks frighten nan Earth, including nan metropolis of New York
Astronomer and lead for NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office, Bill Cooke, issued a connection connected nan constricted facts astir nan arena that are presently known.
According to Cooke, the daylight fireball was first spotted astatine 11:17am section clip adjacent Greenville Yard, a freight obstruction gait located astatine nan Port of New York and New Jersey.
'The fireball was first sighted astatine an altitude of 49 miles supra Upper Bay (east of Greenville Yard),' Cooke said.
Despite resident accounts of beingness rattling and shaking on nan fireball's path — reportedly from northeast New Jersey and Staten Island, New York — nan USGS stated successful an charismatic connection that it recorded nary grounds of an earthquake.
'An introspection of nan seismic information successful nan area showed nary grounds of an earthquake. The USGS has nary nonstop grounds of nan root of nan shaking,' nan national agency's National Earthquake Information Center said.
'Past reports of shaking pinch nary associated seismic awesome person had atmospheric origins,' nan USGS advised, 'such arsenic sonic booms aliases weather-related phenomena.'
NASA officials cautioned that its ain appraisal of nan fireball sightings from this Tuesday was 'uncertain' and based connected only 'a fewer eyewitness accounts.'