Predicted Entry of Meteoroid over Indian Ocean

2026, September 6. Indian Ocean. Pre Impact of a small celestial meteoroid discovery. Name of the object, CERNQ52. Its size is about 80 cm, 0.6 – 1.2 meters in diameter range. The object will enter Earth's atmosphere today at 18:35 (16:35 UT) over the Indian Ocean. This is the thirteenth case of a celestial body discovery before its collision with Earth. Predicted Entry Time: ~16:35 UTC (September 6). Location is roughly 1100km WNW of Broome, Australia and 1000 km ESE of Christmas Island. Melbourne Local Entry Time: ~2:35 AM AEST (overnight, Monday, September 7).

There has been an uptick in cetacean strandings in Papua New Guinea concerning Black Dolphins and a Beaked whale. This could be the result of submarine volcano activity in the Sea of Bismark. The above meteoroid is the second object in the "region" after the May event over the Arafura Sea. Then, in August, we had the Northern Territory, Gulf of Carpentaria, Groote Eylandt, pygmy blue whale stranding.

Overall Note: It's been quiet. Yes, there have been cetacean strandings and meteor activity globally, with pockets of linked events; however, overall, compared to other years, the slow trend continues. It will end sometime, as it does, but the flip side to this is a peaceful environment. There are unmonitored regions that continue to be blind spots for obtaining information, but usually they deliver some small signs. There was comet activity in the inner solar system that delivered some debris over the last year, so it's a wait-and-see scenario for how things unfold as the year goes on and the Earth's orbital path moves into further "trouble". Usually when I comment about it being "quiet" all hell breaks loose. It's important to say cetaceans are still dying from ship strikes, bycatch, entanglements, hunting and other manmade situations. I can only deliver what I'm seeing when mass whale strandings and clusters occur. 

Also: 2026, September 5. North Atlantic Ocean/Caribbean Sea. Seen from Puerto Rico, Trujillo Alto. Large Fireball. Time: between 7:04-7:05 pm, 23:05 UT. A notable meteor was seen northeast over the ocean just before sunset.

Meteor airburst over cachalot habitat

2026, July 21. North Atlantic Ocean, 240km NE from the coast of Guyana. Airburst. Coordinates: (9.4N, 57.4W). Time: 01.14UT. Altitude: 31.5km. Energy: e = 3.2e10. -e = 0.11 or 110,000 kg/TNT. It was seen from San Juan, Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, 470 km to the west. Notes: Central region of cachalot (sperm whale) habitat. As in previous posts, these events usually highlight increased overall activity in the given region. 

Sperm whales could very well be present at that location and time of year. Depth and Bathymetry (The "Drop-Off"): Coordinates: 9.4°N, 57.4°W (240 km NE of Guyana's coastline). Seabed Profile: This position sits directly over the Guiana Continental Slope / Deep Ocean Basin, where ocean depths rapidly drop into the 1,500 m to 3,500 m+ range. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are deep-diving pelagic foragers that almost exclusively frequent waters deeper than 1,000 meters along continental slopes and oceanic trenches where their primary prey (deep-sea squid) aggregate. July / Summer Seasonality: Social Units (Females & Calves): Unlike mature adult males that migrate to polar latitudes during the northern summer, female social pods, nursery groups, and young males remain in tropical and subtropical waters year-round (between ~40°N and 40°S). Guiana Basin Field Data: Marine surveys off the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana) confirm that sperm whales are among the most frequently sighted pelagic cetaceans along the outer continental slope during summer months (May through September).

Two Mass Strandings in the Caribbean

2025, August 17 and 18. Antigua and Barbuda, Caribbean. Two mass strandings of Pantropical spotted dolphins. The first occurrence took place on Jolly Beach, on the west side of Antigua, where five Pantropical spotted dolphins attempted to beach themselves several times. The second was in Barbuda 30 miles away. Up to 12 Pantropical spotted dolphins stranded on rocks, some of which were upside down, eventually swam offshore.

Cetacean Strandings

2025, May 7. Ireland, Galway. A minke whale, which is believed to be only a few months old, was refloated. Highly likely that it will die.  

2025, May 8. Canada, British Columbia, Long Beach, in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, near Tofino. Juvenile Gray whale.

2025, May 8. Aruba, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean Sea 29 kilometres north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná and 80 kilometres northwest of Curaçao. Gervais' beaked whale located dead on beach.

Massive Caribbean Fireball

2024, July 13. Caribbean Sea, Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. Large Meteor. Time: around 23:52 UT. Local Time: 19:49. Concurrent and delayed sound heard. Witnessed at locations 200km apart. Lasted 20 seconds. Until further information is gathered on the energy of this event a Marine Animal Disturbance alert should be noted for Venezuela, Columbia and associated Caribbean Islands. The reason is that this meteoroid had electrophonic properties. 

American Meteor Society (amsmeteors.org)

Also: 2024, July 13. Netherlands, Gelderland, Niedersachsen, Noord-Brabant, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Utrecht, Vlaams Gewest and Zuid-Holland. Fireball. Time: around 22:06 UT. Heading into North Sea.

Also: 2024, July 12. USA, Rhode Island, South Shore. A mature female Humpback named “Lollipop” was found dead. On June 1 she was last seen in good apparent health. She was discovered 10 miles offshore.

Cetacean strandings in one country but two oceans at the same time

2024, May 31. Costa Rica. A striped dolphin was stranded on a Tambor beach in Puntarenas (Pacific), while a pygmy killer whale was found in Tortuguero National Park (Caribbean Sea, Atlantic). This could be a coincidence, or a single event has happened to instigate agitation in the mammals. 

Dolphins stranded for the first time in both oceans of Costa Rica - Prensa Latina (plenglish.com)