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.

Mass stranding in Puerto Rico

2026, July 31. Puerto Rico, Humacao, Punta Santiago Beach. A mass stranding of 3 Black Dolphins (Pilot Whales) from a pod of 6. After hours of careful rescue work, Emergency crews from Puerto Rico's Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA) refloated the cetaceans. All six were successfully returned to the ocean and were later confirmed to be several miles offshore, safe and swimming together. At first, the whales struggled to regain their strength, moving slowly as they made their way back into deeper water. Rescuers closely monitored the pod until the animals were able to swim away on their own.

Puerto Rico News

Second stranding on island: 2026, August 1. Puerto Rico, Puerto Angelino, Playa Combate, Cabo Rojo. A Blainville's Beaked/humpback whale calf (Mesoplodon densirostris), was rescued. This is the second whale stranding recorded on the island in the last two days. Members of the Boquerón Maritime Unit's Vigilance Corps, along with the Fisheries Laboratory of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DRNA), and agency personnel, participated in the operation. The transfer required the mobilization of a Federal Customs vessel, with the purpose of taking the calf to deep waters south of Cabo Rojo.

Large and Long Fireball in New Zealand. Fireballs seen in UK, Ireland and Scotland

A number of bright fireballs seen from the 14^th of November to 25^th over water in UK/Ireland and Scotland region.

Also: Puerto Rico has seen two large fireballs recently, one creating a daylight sonic boom.

November 16. Puerto Rico, over Cabo Rojo. A fireball was spotted streaking across the sky.

November 23. Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands. A very bright daylight fireball was observed across the skies as it disintegrated, producing a sonic boom.

I'm still watching Florida and The Bahamas for stranding activity after the Nov 11th airburst. The meteor exploded at 40+km height, 240,000 TNT/kg energy release, so this could still drive a mass stranding in future weeks.

New Zealand has continued to have fireball activity. Australia: Tasmania has been quiet, while Victoria has had some activity, but nothing out of the ordinary. Strandings in both countries have been single events. 

Update: I was writing this post when this came in from New Zealand. A long-duration meteor, 15+ seconds. The video is incredible: Aurora Australis (NZ) | If anyone else in the South Island had security cameras with motion detection running overnight, check your feed from 03.21am 29-11-25 | Facebook 

Trajectory Maps: Fireballs Aotearoa New Zealand. Facebook

This event is unlikely to have caused the displacement or stranding of cetaceans; however, a MAD (Marine Animal Disturbance) “watch” should still be noted for the region. Although the meteor remained at high altitude and disintegrated—similar to the “Portugal” incident—such occurrences generally appear to be non-events with respect to cetacean strandings. At present, I am unable to establish any definitive acoustic parameters associated with the event, though it is highly improbable that it produced audible signals detectable at the surface. The primary uncertainty stems from the difficulty in isolating and removing very low frequency (VLF) radio waves from the analysis. Nevertheless, incidents of this kind contribute incremental data to the developing meteor–cetacean stranding catalogue, and each documented case improves our understanding of potential correlations. A Watch and See Event.

Update: 20251130, At the same time as this event, a meteor was detected breaking up over Cook Strait. It was heading SW also. Height: (83 to 61km).

The 2019 dolphin die-off in the Gulf of Mexico.

In 2019, more than 260 dolphins stranded themselves across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle from the beginning of February to June. This was approximately three-times higher than the historical average. In Mississippi alone, 126 dolphins died on the coastline. There was a line of meteor airbursts across the Caribbean during this period. It started on February 1 with a fireball that produced an airburst with equivalent energy to 1,400,000 kg/TNT. It was travelling south to north over Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico. On April 14 another airburst struck off the coast of Haiti with an energy of 100,000 kg/TNT. Then a third happened off the coast of Mississippi/Louisiana on May 4 with an energy equal to 79,000 kg/TNT. To cap it off on June 22, to bookend these incidents, a further massive airburst occurred in the Caribbean between Venezuela and Puerto Rico that had the energy of 6,000,000 kg of TNT. The four airbursts were almost in a straight line across the Gulf of Mexico. The cetacean strandings were blamed on rain.