News

People reported earthquakes and fire in the sky. It was probably a meteor.
The fireball is presumed to be from a meteor fragmenting in the sky, according to meteorologists and other experts.
Weather-Fox on MSN5h
Fireball Meteor Startles Residents Across Multiple States
A fireball meteor may have crashed into a Georgia home after lighting up skies and shaking buildings across the Southeast, ...
Rare 'bolide' fireball falls from sky, sightings reported across Southeast U.S.
Sightings have come from Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. The National Weather Service station in Charleston noted the reports, saying that "satellite-based lightning detection ...
Space.com on MSN1d
Rare daytime fireball bright enough to be seen from orbit may have punched a hole in a house in Georgia
A fireball, or a bright meteorite, was seen across the southeastern United States on Thursday and later exploded over Georgia ...
Fireball streaks across Southeast skies, with sonic boom, ground shaken
Calls streamed into 911 dispatchers from across the Southeast on Thursday afternoon with reports that a “ball of fire” was ...
What is a fireball, and how often does rare event occur? See known SC meteorites
The object, identified as a fireball, "exploded 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of TNT," per CBS News.
Rare daytime fireball spotted in skies over Alabama, 4 other states
The object described as a “fiery ball” was seen by people in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina and northern ...
Fireball meteor crashes through a roof in Georgia; first photo of fragments emerge
The meteor crashed through a roof in Georgia. Exceptionally bright meteors are also called fireballs or bolides. These ...