Eagle man captures Perseid meteor shower, maybe longest meteor ever recorded

[@slofootcrofoot]

I've watched these for years. They peak on my birthday so they are special to me. I once saw one completely cross the sky with a multi colored tail. It appeared so close I automatically covered my ears anticipating a sonic boom. Great times...

[@lauratoneykee7072]

My bday is the 17th i look forward to these every year for mine as well

[@yolandapullman839]

About 15 years ago, my youngest and I saw a huge, bright meteor streak all the way across the sky. We lost track of it when it went behind a tree beside us. It was the largest, brightest and longest one I've even seen.

[@vicgisgand]

was it a constant glow? and could you llike really follow it i wanna know hahaha

[@MortonLawnNLandscapes]

Me too

[@markvincentordiz]

Hi Yolanda. Can you see the smoke coming from it?

[@vicgisgand]

@@markvincentordiz im not yolanda ut i think i could

[@markvincentordiz]

@@vicgisgand then logically, im not refering to you. Where do you think i am supposed to reply? I did not even tag you.

[@lyleyla9275]

I'm 45yrs old & spent my entire life watching Meteor Showers, comets, etc. My youngest son's bday falls during the peak of The Perseids! We do campouts/Meteor Shower watches for his bday & I feel honored that bc of us, so many kids(teens now)have had the wonderful experience of sky watching & seeing their 1st Meteors! These events were so important to us growing up & im so glad to pass it on to my sons & their friends! This was a phenomenal Meteor to witness!! Thank you sir! Quite extraordinary! 💫💫💫

[@nilsnyman6767]

I made a nostalgia purchase at Goodwill for my daughter for Xmas. I found a 1985 Tasco telescope! I had one just like it back in the day. We have seen some amazing stuff. The mountain ridges on the moon are my favorite. Best $25 I've spent in a long time.

[@RH-xr8ms]

On the 21 of April, 2021 I caught 5 good photos of the Lyrid Meteor shower on a game camera. Strange, because they were streaks that were more than 2/3 across the photos. They almost seemed to be elapsed timed shutter speed. The camera was triggered by Deer, and a Badger over a water source.

[@BleedingWhiteKnuckles]

I'd love to have his camera setup!

[@lauratoneykee7072]

I seen this exact one it went from one side of the sky all the way to the other was the coolest ive ever seen. Nice long tail behind it too

[@dbx4563]

I saw a perseid over 10 seconds long today but 26 seconds thats impressive

[@GatchamanG4]

That camera setup is a great idea!

[@aquillafleetwood4209]

About 30 years ago, I was driving at night from Jal, N. M. to Kermit, Texas! Suddenly, everything flashed what I thought was lightning, which lit up an area all around me. I pulled over and got out of the car but there was not a cloud in sight! Confused, I just got back in my car and drove home! The more I thought about it, I realized it had to have been a meteorite burst above me! I have never seen one like that ever again!

[@samdanner6806]

I find you might have seen a real UAP.

[@glennledrew8347]

Possibly a piece of man-made hardware. On an astrophotography trip to Australia in '89 there was a very similar looking upper atmosphere skip of a satellite on its penultimate orbit. Meaning that the dip we witnessed into the atmosphere slowed it sufficiently that within an orbit later it fully disintegrated. Of course it's fully possible that this was a meteor, for they do occasionally have such a very slow velocity. The great majority of meteors zip by MUCH more quickly. But it's most definitely NOT a Perseid, for they have a FAR higher entry velocity. If this is a meteor, it's merely a so-called "sporadic", not related to any known shower. Incidentally, a shower member can also be identified by the direction of travel. All members appear to come from a common point on the sky called the radiant (here, in the constellation Perseus, hence the shower name, Perseids.)

[@tpolakis]

Hi Glenn, nice to see an informed person posting in this thread. I have never seen a meteor with a duration of greater than about 6 seconds, but I've seen space debris that's takes a similar amount of time to traverse the sky. Is there really a chance that this is not re-entering space junk rather than a meteor?

[@glennledrew8347]

@@tpolakis With the date/time, location and track across the sky known, a piece of hardware of the size to create this extended ionized track would likely have been tracked already by, say, Norad. Inquiries might well settle the question...

[@JordanRagsdale]

Hi Glenn! Thanks for your thoughtful comment. This meteor has been "solved" as in, it's orbital velocity, angle and orgin have all been settled with the data that we had collected on its entry triangulated with another station a hundred miles from me that captured the same one. It was travelling about 20km/sec, so definitely not space trash, and it originated from the Apollo main asteroid belt, so you are correct, definitely not a Perseid. I'm not sure why they said that in the article, I definitely didn't say it was during the interview, haha.

[@tpolakis]

@@JordanRagsdale Thanks for the explanation. That looks like a great meteor camera array you have. I've worked at the Lowell Discovery Telescope outside Flagstaff this past year, and they have a similar setup. I can't get over how small the cameras are.

[@stevevrana3922]

Several years ago we saw several fireballs streak across the sky from the treeline to the east to maybe the horizon to the west, near the Perseid peak, late evening. I had not seen that before or since. They took only a second or so to cross. It was probably my grand niece's first meteor shower. Totally amazing. I hope she doesn't expect them all to be like that 😉

[@Taskerofpuppets]

I saw it in the skylight in Custer, SD as I was headed to Crazy Horse Memorial August 21.

[@crackerjax4330]

Either I just caught one for well over a minute, or I just had a UFO slowly traveling north on the horizon. I'm waaaaaaaay up here in the white mtns, NM, with no neighbors near and no other lights source. Whatever it was didn't make any noise and was incredibly bright with some kind of debris field or smoke following behind it.

[@kristinamullen4066]

Is Eagleman like Mothman???

[@smileybubbles9894]

Saw my first meteor ever July 7th ,I believe it was about 4:00 in the morning. Looked a lot like this one except you could see where it hit the atmosphere and looked like a sparkler 💫for a second before it went out

[@pkstarstorm8856]

Honestly I'm more interested in footage of the eagle man.

[@capt.americamom7101]

I seen one longer it was this year the last shower to happen and it was blue coming down my son and I were out at 1:00 am sitting in our lawn chairs and it was right in front of us. It was very cool and we were very excited. Wish we recorded it to show you all.

[@CDJCDJ81]

Saw that same thing in Turkey. It was for close to a minute Sunday night

[@bubblywaters3116]

Does Jordan have a youtube channel?

[@leightonhay9298]

Amazing to get a look at the different types of meteors,I will say l have one that is above the more common,I was with my very good friend from work we were just about to get out the work van when both of us caught this spectacular orange meteor cross low on the horizon from south trailing northwards it's tail from the moment we noticed it was almost the full length from our view point as the horizon and it's speed was slow, very bright orange because it was so low tracking on the horizon it appeared larger,I just remember both me and him looking at eachother afterwards and being a bit lost for words, this happened in Dundee Scotland funny thing is today we were talking about it, before I seen this video.

[@Hexnilium]

I wonder if such cameras can pick up unidentified objects that are cross referenced with air traffic and satellite trajectories.

[@roboito4203]

Wonder what the result was as far as longest meteor ever recorded?

[@starzanhorse4758]

how can they go anydirection?

[@puritychalice]

Woooo! Thanks, handsome daddy!

[@Camilajacometti]

I think I saw that on the sky! It was like a long lasting shooting star... I was in Italy when I saw it. Is it possible that it was the same thing???

[@MerandaSmith-q7s]

What date did the camra capture this meteor

[@tf7274]

I've watched one skip in the late 90's. It went in and out every half second, all the way across the sky in Manitoba Canada and past the horizon. Just like skipping a stone on a pond.

[@prettybrownbutterfly]

Yesss exactly ❤ the flat earth firmament prevents it from entering at all - they always rebound

[@mrbob19561]

Where can I get that camera?

[@rainman7992]

probably one of elon musks satellites taking a breather.

[@lorischneck7737]

Beautiful 🙏

[@dayzyrules1]

Total streaker!!

[@gardener3030]

Dope, AF, my dudes

[@johnedward7097]

I seen it enter the atmosphere. Too bad my cameras are crappy. Caught a little glimpse though. It lit the whole sky .

[@nostardamus22]

like walking across highway blindfolded, we do it every year, one of these years we are going to get hit again.

[@lilgrlQ1]

Ohh....I thought he was just out flyin around & got pictures as they flew by....🤭

[@prettybrownbutterfly]

They never impact - they rebound

[@victorma9355]

Thats a meteor thought I was looking at a satellite

[@adamforest1986]

Wow that's great 👍

[@streetmonk001]

Incorrect. These close meteor occurs quite often especially when they fall close by

[@Bigbear4224]

This doesn't have anything to do with this meteor shower. Probably 25 or 30 years ago, when I think Halley's comet came by, I got to watch it through a telescope I had gotten for Christmas. I sure wish I could have gotten some pictures of that back then

[@kathleenwalton3311]

Awesome

[@southernstingray2743]

Fly on Freebird

[@russellsmejkal304]

Man I messed it 😢 I always see a story like this after it’s happened

[@GrayPlayer]

Any chance it was a piece of space junk?

[@JordanRagsdale]

Actually no, it was travelling at 20km/sec, which is not a guess, but after careful analysis of this footage and another angle from another station a hundred miles from me. Most space debris reenters at around 10km/sec or less. So this is definitely confirmed as a meteor. And its orbit was solved in origin to the Apollo asteroid belt.

[@lorischneck7737]

👍

[@clevername8832]

Aren't they going to allow gravity to pull the ISS down to it's retirement soon?

[@valerianthemackiii5896]

⭐ * ⭐ * ⭐ * ⭐ * ⭐

[@padfoot6615]

I just saw my first one

[@drewtramp1577]

Cool.

[@cindyhurzeler3885]

Probably the Chinese rocket.

[@leroyjinkins]

A long one😂

[@jetpilot2112]

Space junk re-entering

[@JordanRagsdale]

Actually no, it was travelling at 20km/sec, which is not a guess, but after careful analysis of this footage and another angle from another station a hundred miles from me. Most space debris reenters at around 10km/sec or less. So this is definitely confirmed as a meteor. And its orbit was solved in origin to the Apollo asteroid belt.