Overview

• The event occurred around 23:08 local time on August 19 and was recorded across multiple prefectures, with witnesses reporting daylight-like brightness and air vibrations.
• Japan’s meteorological office in Kagoshima said it was probably a fireball or meteorite, and experts cited by NHK identified it as a bolide.
• Authorities and observation networks are collecting videos and testimonies to reconstruct the trajectory and physical characteristics, with no fragments recovered so far.
• Municipal agencies and police reported no injuries or material damage, and astronomers assess the object most likely fell into the sea south of Kyushu.
• LA NACION reported NASA/CNEOS and SonotaCo preliminaries indicating roughly 1.6 kilotons of energy, an entry speed near 21 km/s, a ~58° path, and a terminal altitude around 18 km, with some researchers using Chelyabinsk as a brightness reference without equating the events.