Overview
- More than 120 eyewitness reports and numerous dashcam, doorbell, and security videos documented the bright meteor across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Wisconsin late on February 10 local time.
- Analyses place first visibility about 76 km above Trinity, Indiana, with a southeast track of roughly 77 km and breakup around 43 km above Laura, Ohio.
- NASA estimated the object's speed at about 29,000 mph (47,000 km/h), which sits on the slower end of typical meteoroid entry velocities.
- The event was classified as a sporadic fireball, with NASA stating it was not associated with any active meteor shower.
- High-altitude fragmentation indicates the object likely fully disintegrated in the upper atmosphere, with no evidence of meteorites reaching the ground.