AMS received 150 reports about a fireball seen over Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington on Tuesday, March 25th 2025 around 04:03 UT (map at link in OP)
If I was looking at a fireball in the sky and asked someone what it was, I would need at least three people to say “that’s dragon freedom” before I’d realize it meant spacex and they weren’t just doing a stupid bit.
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AMS received 150 reports about a fireball seen over Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington on Tuesday, March 25th 2025 around 04:03 UT (map at link in OP)
“This was not a meteor or fireball. It was most likely the [space debris] known as DRAGON FREEDOM-2 DEB that was expected to re-enter the atmosphere tonight,” said Robert Lunsford, with the American Meteor Society. [https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/fireball-over-california-sky-was-no-meteor-it-was-likely-spacex-dragon-debris/103-86b8628a-6f1e-4e0d-9f29-c2934bc2251e](https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/fireball-over-california-sky-was-no-meteor-it-was-likely-spacex-dragon-debris/103-86b8628a-6f1e-4e0d-9f29-c2934bc2251e)
Dragon Freedom 2 (SpaceX Crew-9) launched on 28 September 2024, docking with the ISS the next day. [https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2024-178A](https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2024-178A)
If I was looking at a fireball in the sky and asked someone what it was, I would need at least three people to say “that’s dragon freedom” before I’d realize it meant spacex and they weren’t just doing a stupid bit.