BALTIMORE, MD—What’s that, up in the sky? It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Actually, it was a meteor.
A bright fireball that streaked across East Coast skies on Thursday, November 2, was, in fact, a meteor, NASA has confirmed.
Numerous eyewitnesses in the states of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire have filed reports with the American Meteor Society of a bright fireball seen at 7:10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time last Thursday.
NASA Meteor Watch reports that the meteor first appeared 65 miles above a point in the Atlantic Ocean 81 miles from Smith Point on Long Island. Moving south of east at 116,000 miles per hour, it traveled some 83 miles through the upper atmosphere before disintegrating 49 miles above the ocean.
The American Meteor Society has received over 60 reports from witnesses who saw the fireball as it blazed across the sky.
Check out more in the video below from AMS.
Photo via Mark K./American Meteor Society
