You already know there’s been a lot of media reported over the past couple of days including one slamming through someone’s house in texas. Jokes Aside imagine getting woken up by that. But anyway, what’s causing it? The end times? Aliens? Maybe a new meteor shower. Maybe something lurking deep in space throwing some initial space rocks our way?
“In 2026, both the rate and the absolute count are high. Thirty large fireball events producing audible booms in a single quarter mean roughly one every three days,” said Mike Hankey, of the American Meteor Society, in an analysis of the recent events.
An AMS analysis of fireball trajectories and radiant points dating back to 2021 found a “meaningful clustering in two regions of the sky,” with a dominant source coming from a region opposite the sun known as the Anthelion radiant.
