A fireball, or a bright meteorite, was seen across the southeastern United States on Thursday and later exploded over Georgia, creating booms heard by residents in the area, according to NASA.The American Meteor Society said it received more than 160 reports of a fireball sighting from observers in Georgia and South Carolina at 12:25 p.

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern U.S. states have now reported witnessing a mysterious object streak across the sky on Thursday, and the nation's space

A fireball, or an exceptionally bright meteor, appears to have exploded in the skies over the southeastern United States yesterday NZT. The American Meteor Society received nearly 150 reports of a fireball spotted at around 12.