Reports: Meteor Spotted Over DC, New York, New England
People who spotted the apparent meteor described it as a bright, colorful object streaking across the night sky.
Twitter was abuzz Friday night with reports of a large, bright meteor streaking across the night sky over the Eastern Seaboard.
Several readers told NBC4 that they spotted the meteor just before 8 p.m. Friday.
Twitter user Brenton Laverty characterized it as a huge, green meteor burning up over DC.
Another user from Montgomery County, PA described the object as "Bright. Orange. Blue. White. Silver. Totally streaking by the sky light! Wow!"
According to several outlets, the object may have qualified as a fireball, defined by the American Meteor Society as a "very bright meteor, generally brighter than magnitude -4, which is about the same magnitude of the planet Venus in the morning or evening sky."
Did you spot the bright object in the sky Friday night? What did it look like? Let us know in the comments, and feel free to upload any images of the object to Patch.
Donald
10:47 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
I saw one in the sky east of Cranford about two hours later. It seemed to come straight down -- from my vantage point -- rather than across the sky. There may be a small "meteor shower."
mije
7:50 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Yeah i saw one. But it was heading east toward Atlantic city, i live in egg harbor township. I keep hearing about one that landed near the Delaware, Maryland boarder. So like the Guy before me said maybe a shower or more likely a larger one that broke up in the atmosphere.
Stefan Piperov
6:41 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
Yes, we saw it in Providence, RI on our way out of a restaurant.
Was very bright, slightly greenish in appearance. It burned up in under a second.