SUMMARY

SUMMARY

This event was a daytime fireball reported west of Anchorage, Alaska on 24 April 2025. One video of the bolide is available on the American Meteor Society web page for this event, showing an event time of 18:30:58 UTC, or 10:30 AM local time.

Signatures consistent with falling meteorites appear in three radar sweeps from the PAHG (Anchorage, AK) radar. The first two show the characteristic "candy striping" pattern from meteorite falls in Velocity data. This effect comes from short-range turbulence caused by the passage of larger meteorites, probably 100s of grams and larger. The fireball was moving towards an azimuth of approximately 294 compass degrees as inferred from the positions of the three radar signatures.

The first radar signature appears at 18:32:10 UTC and an altitude of 17.95 km above mean sea level (ASML) and the last occurred at 4.9 km AMSL and 18:36:16 UTC for an elapsed detection time of 4 minutes 5 seconds.

The landing site is remote, with the nearest named location of Whitefish Lake labeled in Google Earth imagery approximately 50km from the fall site. The terrain is mostly relatively vegetated glacial outflow channel with abundant sinuous stream channels. The western end might have the best chance for meteorite recovery where rocky ground is visible in Google Earth imagery.