The following report is prepared by Marco Langbroek, DMS Numerous reports are trickling in about a beatifull slow fragmenting fireball in the early evening twilight of July 31. Several reports from Dutch casual observers have been received by the Dutch Meteor Society and in addition several sightings are reported via the Belgian VVS newsgroup. Observers invariably report a very slow moving, fragmenting object, about 4-10 seconds duration, orange to red in color.
Several observers describe the object as 'like a piece of fireworks, quite unlike a meteor'.
The general descriptions concern an object coming from the northwest traveling towards the south-southeast. This is thus a sporadic meteor, not a member of the summer southern hemisphere zodiacal streams. This is in early evening twilight. A revised trajectory based on observers who give sky coordinates of start and end point indicates a long trajectory of 180 km length. There is some leeway in the true starting point since many observers presumably missed the early part of the appearation.