At 8:47pm EDT on 13 September 2026, a seven-ounce piece of asteroid lit up the sky from Metro Detroit to northern Michigan. NASA’s camera data tells us exactly where it was, and why it was nothing stranger than space rock.
On the evening of Sunday 30 August 2026, a green fireball crossed the upper North Island for about ten seconds and burned out over the sea north of Tauranga. Meteor cameras tracked it, and no meteorite is expected.
A fireball crossed New Zealand’s lower North Island at 10.26pm on 28 July 2026. Within days, citizen scientists had pulled fragments of it from Wairarapa farmland. Here is the record, including where the reports disagree.
At 10:26 pm Central (11:26 pm Eastern) on 14 June 2026, a one-pound piece of asteroid lit up the sky over 14 states. It ran 300 miles from Tupelo, Mississippi, to the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri. NASA’s camera data, the witness count and why no meteorites fell.
At 10:33 pm on 25 May 2026, two volcano livestreams caught a green fireball flaring for just over a second above the erupting Mayon Volcano. PHIVOLCS first said it hit the slopes, then corrected itself. A ‘rising light’ in one clip is most likely a satellite.
