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Community photo entitled "Stunning Long-Track Meteor in the Northwest Sky" by Dan Bush on 10/05/2025 at Albany, Missouri, USA

"Stunning Long-Track Meteor in the Northwest Sky"

On 10/05/2025 01:41 am by Dan Bush | Website | Albany, Missouri, USA

This one was a stunner. I can't imagine what it would have looked like on video had the Moonlight not been so bright. The Moon can be seen in the upper left corner.
You need to watch the YouTube video to best see the bright green train of ionized atmosphere left behind. The bright green color does not show up well in the first still image here, but it shows up better earlier in the flight. The video shows it best.
This meteor started out almost due North, fairly high, and then ended low, almost due West. This is almost a 90-degree track. I wish I could have seen it in person. This meteor has been reported by several people in multiple states (KS, NE, MO, IA) to the American Meteor Society.
See the complete video in the Comments of my Facebook post.
I'll update the post on Facebook with the AMS report when it comes out.
Right now, I do not know whether or not this meteor is associated with a known meteor shower. My first inclination is to think that it is a "sporadic" meaning that is not associated with any known showers. I could be wrong.

Surveillance Camera Network using off-the-shelf low-light video cameras.

Video frames imported into Photoshop as layers and then "Lightened" to show the entire path. See the video on YouTube linked on my Facebook page.