A fireball was seen shortly before 12:30 p.m. EDT over Tennessee and northern Georgia on Thursday.
Based on over 100 reports by observers from Ohio to Alabama to the American Meteor Society (AMS), the fireball was seen shortly before 12:30 p.m. over Tennessee into Northern Georgia
Reports are also coming in from western North Carolina. If you saw it, you can share what you saw and help determine the meteor’s trajectory.
The flash of light appears to be a meteor, a space rock entering our atmosphere at tremendous speed. Despite the bright appearance, this rock is likely not very big, likely just a few inches to a foot in diameter at most.
Astronomers refer to a meteor this bright as a fireball. Had it exploded or otherwise broken up violently in the atmosphere it would be known as a bolide. Meteorites are the bits of meteor that survive to the ground, which is extremely rare, those would be called meteorites.
