>>24733191

>had to be terminated by a visible one.

On June 14, 2026, a brilliant fireball streaked across the night sky over the Midwestern and Southern United States, visible in at least 15 states including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Tennessee, and Texas.

The meteor entered Earth's atmosphere at approximately 10:26 PM CDT (03:26 UTC on June 15), traveling at roughly 56,000 mph (90,123 km/h). NASA and the American Meteor Society confirmed the object was a piece of an asteroid about 3 inches (8 cm) in diameter and weighing roughly 1 pound. It became visible over Tupelo, Mississippi, at an altitude of 60 miles, traveled 300 miles northwest, and completely disintegrated over the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri at an altitude of34 miles.

>>24733243

>10:26 PM

At10:26 AMon September 11, 2001, the North Tower of the World Trade Center was in its final moments before collapse. The tower, which had been struck by American Airlines Flight 11 at 8:46 AM, burned intensely for over 100 minutes. The structural steel weakened by the heat of the jet fuel fire could no longer support the building's weight.

The tower ultimately collapsed at10:28 AM, approximately two minutes after this timestamp. This event occurred just minutes after the South Tower collapsed at 9:59 AM and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania at 10:03 AM. The destruction of the North Tower marked the end of the immediate physical attacks on that day, resulting in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people