Fireball 1    :   May 31, 2008    1028 UT   (4:28 am MDT)

Observer's Comments: Clear night.  The first fireball listed here was quite a big one, occurring over southern New Mexico.
It created one of the longest forward scatter radio reflections I have ever received.

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080531_1028ut_Ashcraft.mov       756 KB  6 seconds

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
The following movie with sound is only the first 20 seconds of the radio reflection. The full sonic radio reflection lasted longer than 6 minutes!
FB20080531_1028utHE_Ashcraft.mp4    2.4 MB  20 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Fireball occurs at the 10:28 ut marker and continues into the second chart until 10:35 UT. The fireball that can be seen on the
spectrogram at 1027 UT was a different meteor, unrelated to the 1028 UT event. A movie of the 1027 UT meteor is down the page.

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Fireball 2    :   May 31, 2008    0432 UT

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080531_0432UT_Ashcraft.mov       790 KB  6 seconds

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
Nice radio reflection on both radios..
FB20080531_0432UT_Ashcraft.mp4   1.6  MB  13 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 04:32 UT minute.
   

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Fireball 3    :   May 31, 2008    0459 UT

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080531_0459UT_Ashcraft.mov       790 KB  6 seconds

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
Minimal radio reflection but slightly evident in headphones.
 FB20080531_0459UT_Ashcraft.mp4 384 KB  4 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 04:59 UT minute but is not prominent on the spectrogram.

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Fireball 4    :   May 31, 2008    1027 UT

This particular meteor was not captured by the Sentinel system but my secondary video system caught it with sound

Movie 1 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
Strong radio reflection on both radios.
 FB20080531_1027ut_Ashcraft.mp4   3.1  MB  26 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 1027 UT minute. See the first fireball above for the 10:28 UT occurrence.

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Fireball 5    :   May 31, 2008    0629 UT

This particular meteor was not captured by the Sentinel system but my secondary video system caught it with sound.
This is another very long radio reflection. In the movie below the meteor is very hard to see up in the upper left portion of the screen.

Movie 1 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
The below movie is the first 20 seconds of the event with the head echo and beginning of the ascendingly strong radio ascenscion.
 FB20080531_0629UThe_Ashcraft.mp4  2.3  MB  20 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0629 until 0636 UT.