The 1860 Great Meteor procession occurred on July 20, 1860.

It was an extremely rare meteoric phenomenon reported from locations across the United States.

[1][2] American landscape painter Frederic Church saw and painted a spectacular string of fireball meteors across the Catskill evening sky, an extremely rare Earth-grazing meteor procession.

[3][4] It is believed that this was the event referred to in the poem Year of Meteors, 1859-60, by Walt Whitman.

[5][6] In 2010, 150 years later, it was determined to be an Earth-grazing meteor procession.