NASA/JPL CNEOS records
Where was a meteor brightest? Follow a dot to read its time, altitude and energy.
Record map
CNEOS publishes selected records after the event. This map is not a live sighting tracker; an empty area does not mean no fireball was seen there.
NASA/JPL CNEOS dots mark public fireball source records where source location data is available. Points are peak-brightness locations, not landing spots.
Try a small discovery
A dot marks where a fireball reached peak brightness in the atmosphere. It is a point in that record, not a landing spot.
Up to 50 located CNEOS records from the past 90 days. The cards below show the six newest mapped records.
Times are shown in your device's time zone. The NASA source records use UTC.
Checking the NASA/JPL CNEOS layer.
Checking recent source records shown here.
An estimated energy or radiated energy field from the source record when data loads.
NASA/JPL Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
Record cards
These are the newest records in the map above. The coordinates describe the reported peak-brightness location in the atmosphere.
Did you just see one?
This map uses selected records from the NASA/JPL CNEOS fireball dataset, so it does not collect eyewitness reports and does not update immediately after a sighting.
Report an eyewitness sighting to the American Meteor Society.
What you may have seen
It may look like a large shooting star. Slow blinking lights, groups of lights, and objects visible for several minutes may have another explanation.
Finding a recent event
Select nearby dots and compare their reported peak-brightness time with what you observed. A match can be useful context, but this map cannot confirm an individual sighting.
Reading guide
The record time is when peak brightness was reported. Cards display it in your device's time zone.
Markers use NASA/JPL CNEOS source location fields where available. If location data is not available, the record is not mapped here.
When reported, this is the height at peak brightness, in kilometres above the reference surface CNEOS calls the geoid. A missing altitude stays missing here.
Radiated energy describes light emitted in the atmosphere. CNEOS calculates total impact energy from radiated energy using an empirical relationship. The record's calculated energy is not a measurement of damage at the dot.
The source link opens the NASA/JPL CNEOS fireball dataset and its official notes.
About the data
NASA/JPL CNEOS notes that public fireball records are not provided in real time, not all fireballs are reported, and parameters may be revised if updated information is provided. Use this page as public-data context and visit the source for official details.
View the NASA/JPL CNEOS Fireballs source page / Fireball API documentation.
