Submitted Illustration

The blue bars represent reflected radar pulses from what Curator of Planetary Ices and Organics Marc Fries believes might be the meteor's wake of sound waves as it ripped through the air over Duncan Canal. Five Petersburg residents reported their accounts of flashes of light and blast noises to the American Meteorological Society website. The eyewitness accounts seem to match the location and time of the NOAA's radar reflection data.