The night of 2026-08-31

A quiet night, which is what almost every night looks like.

Measured

What was genuinely in the sky

• The moon was waning, 83% lit. Geomagnetic activity was quiet, Kp 3.3.

What the instruments recorded

The Global Meteor Network's cameras, 1,300 of them across 42 countries, computed 2,026 meteor trajectories for this night, 291 of them over North America, led by the NUE with 41.

This section is added about a week after the night itself, because computing trajectories from camera data takes that long. Instrument data: Global Meteor Network (CC BY 4.0).

Talked about that day

• The hat man and the old hag: 100+ public posts
• Someone in the room: 48 public posts
• Glitches in the matrix: 10 public posts
• Orbs and strange lights: 3 public posts
• Something in the woods: 3 public posts
• Shadow people: 2 public posts
• Unexplained booms: 1 public posts
• Dreams that will not stay dreams: 1 public posts