A huge fireball event with sonic booms happened near the French/German border today. So far there are 176 reports to the International Meteor Organization / American Meteor Society’s reporting system and more reports pending. This makes it a “huge” fireball event by their definition of an event with over 100 reports-
http://fireballs.imo.net/imo_view/event/2016/732
Over 10% of the reports say they heard a sonic boom, this is a very high amount and indicates a meteor penetrating deep into the atmosphere!
This is the 8th huge fireball event worldwide in the past 32 days, record shattering by far!
This huge fireball cluster began with a huge event on the Florida/Georgia border on January 24th, 2016.
Here is the number of fireball reports received in the period from 1/24-2/25 in recent years-
2013 – 917
2014 – 1364
2015 – 1515
2016 – 3396 and counting!
This cluster of fireballs which began on 1/24 ended a period of over 2 1/2 months without a huge fireball event, the longest period without one in over 3 1/2 years. Huge fireball events do tend to happen in clusters, and we are in unquestionably the biggest huge fireball cluster on record.
